Call for Participation

Important Dates

Paper Abstracts Due	Monday 10 June 2024
Papers (all materials) Due	Monday 17 June 2024
Posters and Demos Due	Monday 1 July 2024
Author Notification for Papers	Monday 5 August 2024
Revised Papers and Posters/Demos recommended from Paper Track Due	Monday 12 August 2024
Final Author Notification for Papers, Posters and Demos	Friday 16 August 2024
Camera-Ready Papers, Posters and Demos	Monday 19 August 2024
Conference	Wednesday 9 – Friday 11 October 2024

Topics

VRST 2024 welcomes paper submissions relating (but not limited) to the following XR areas:

• Display technology and interaction devices
• Low-latency and high-performance software and applications
• Multi-user and distributed XR
• XR software environments and authoring systems
• Interaction techniques
• Tracking and sensing
• Multimodal XR including haptics, smell, taste, and brain-computer interfaces
• Audio & music processing, sound synthesis, and sonification
• XR-related computer vision, computer graphics, and rendering techniques
• Immersive analytics
• Diversity and Inclusion in XR
• XR-related modeling and simulation techniques
• Avatars and virtual humans, virtual embodiment, and body-ownership illusions
• Teleoperation and telepresence
• Performance testing, user experience, and empirical studies
• Locomotion and navigation
• Perception, presence, and cognition
• XR applications, e.g. training, medical, fabrication
• Multi-disciplinary research projects involving innovative use of XR

Reproduction Challenge

VRST 2024 is excited to introduce the first Reproduction Challenge (see here for details), aiming to promote and recognize the crucial role of replication in scientific research in XR. Submissions will be accepted both in the form of replication papers and posters, submitted via the regular papers and poster tracks. Replication submissions should focus on published XR works that are replicated and discussed, which is a cornerstone for building a trustworthy knowledge base. Outstanding replication papers and posters will be recognized with prestigious awards at the conference.

PCS Submission Management System

Please use the Precision Conferences System (PCS) to submit your work. After clicking the link below, please choose “SIGCHI” from the “Society” drop-down list, then “VRST 2024” from the “Conference/Journal” drop-down list.

https://new.precisionconference.com/vrst2024/

Submission Guidelines

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library in the VRST collection.

Format

Paper submissions must be anonymous for a double-blind review process (see below for more details). By contrast, Poster and Demo submissions do NOT have to be anonymous, and these submissions will be juried by committee members and receive light feedback (up to a few paragraphs in length).

• All submissions should be prepared using the Word or LaTeX templates from the official ACM Master article template packages and TAPS (see https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow).
• For LaTeX authors, submissions should be made using the double-column format using \documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}.
• For Word submissions, please use the linked single-column template with up to approx. 8,000 words minus space for figures, tables, etc.
• Authors should prepare their materials using numbered citations and references. See the TAPS webpage for guidance on how content length corresponds to the page limits for the final version.

Submission Lengths

• Paper: 4 to 9 pages, double column, excluding references.
• Poster and Demos: Up to a maximum of 2 pages, double column, including references.

Anonymity Guidelines

For initial Paper submissions, authors are asked to remove all author and institution information and remove any clues that would directly identify any of the authors (such as the name of the data collecting institution, ethical board/IRB institution names, or acknowledgments). Please anonymize all PDF files. Note that PDF creator programs may automatically include author information in the file metadata.

Citations of the authors’ own published work (including online) must be in the third person, in a manner that is not traceable to the identity of the authors. For example, the wording “in [3], Mountain and River proposed…” is acceptable, whereas “in [3], we proposed…” is not (Where reference [3] is listed explicitly as “Mountain, A. and River, A., Detecting Mountains and Rivers, In Proc. XYZ ’16, 721-741.”).

Please note that failure to comply with the above requirements will result in an automatic desk rejection of the paper!

Contribution Types

We invite many types of research contributions, including interactive systems. However, evaluating systems that are built using existing techniques can be difficult. For example, a system can be built using a known machine-learning technique but it can enable entirely new functionality. In this case, reviewers will need to judge the novelty of the new functionality that the system enables without penalizing the work for leveraging an existing technique.

For reference, here’s a paper about evaluating interactive systems that reviewers and authors should both be familiar with:

James Fogarty (2017): Code and Contribution in Interactive Systems Research

We further accept studies that replicate known findings systematically to confirm or contradict previously found results.

Supplementary Materials

Submissions may be (optionally) accompanied by additional materials such as images, videos, or electronic documents. These materials do not form a part of the official submission. They will be viewed only at the discretion of the reviewers. All content should be in a portable format that is unlikely to require the user to download additional programs. For example, you may prefer PDF or HTML for documents, PNG or JPEG for images, and QuickTime or MPEG for videos. The total file size for supplementary materials should not exceed a total of 50MB.

To the extent possible, accepted papers should stand on their own, with the additional material providing supplementary information or confirmation of results. It is, however, appropriate to refer to video footage in the paper.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

When designing and presenting user evaluations, please consider the following: User evaluations using non-representative or homogeneous participant populations can introduce biases in the results and conclusions. We recommend that researchers strive to use samples that are representative of the population for which the technology is being designed. If representative samples are not possible to collect, we recommend that the limitations of the population studied should be discussed within the paper and care must be taken when making claims about the findings. We recommend that participant demographic information should be reported for user evaluations so that future researchers understand the results based on the population studied.

Accessibility

We ask authors to try to be as inclusive as possible when preparing a submission. For instance, please provide alt-text for figures and tables and make supplemental videos accessible with subtitles to enable us to facilitate accessible reviewing. We recommend that authors read the SIGCHI Guidelines for an Accessible Submission, as well as the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos (especially the section of “What accessibility considerations should I pay attention to when recording my video?”), which describe the process of accessible video creation and captioning. If authors have difficulties with making their submissions accessible, they are encouraged to contact the VRST 2024 Accessibility Chairs by emailing accessibility@vrst2024.org.

Policies

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference, and present their work in Trier. As the conference is in-person only, there will not be any opportunity to present remotely. Besides, it’s just so much better to meet your fellow XR enthusiasts in person!

All standing ACM policies apply to ACM VRST 2024.

• ACM Policy on Authorship (which also contains statements regarding the use of generative AI) 
• ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.  ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors.  We are committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution, and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.  (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)

Contact

Programme Chairs: papers2024@vrst.acm.org

Stefania Serafin, Aalborg University Denmark

Eike Langbehn, HAW Hamburg, Germany

Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota, USA

Poster and Demo Chairs: posters2024@vrst.acm.org

Christoph Borst, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Carolin Wienrich, Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany

Rebecca Fribourg, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France