Submission Deadline:
June 19, 2026 (Tentative)
Notification of Acceptance:
July 10, 2026 (Tentative)
Workshop Date:
October 11/12, 2026
*All deadlines are 23:59 AOE
For any questions, feel free to contact us via email:
everyday.xr.workshop@gmail.com
We welcome empirical, conceptual, and technical contributions that examine how Extended Reality (XR) interaction is shaped by the realities of everyday use. Submissions should engage with key challenges in everyday XR, including—but not limited to—real-world interaction constraints, situational impairments, environmental and contextual factors, context-aware adaptation, evaluation beyond laboratory settings, accessibility, and everyday application scenarios. The workshop also welcomes work that moves beyond proof-of-concept interaction techniques and instead asks what it would take for XR to remain usable across everyday transitions, diverse user populations, and changing environments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Identifying and classifying the situational, contextual, and environmental factors that most strongly influence MR interaction in practice.
Understanding how current MR interaction paradigms fail, degrade, or adapt under such conditions, including impacts not only on input performance, but also on comfort, trust, social acceptability, safety, accessibility, and long-term usability.
Exploring methods for studying these issues beyond conventional controlled laboratory settings, such as in-the-wild deployments, longitudinal studies, situated prototyping, simulation of real-world constraints, ecological evaluation metrics, and mixed-method approaches.
Developing feasible solutions or practical guidance for future MR research and design, with a focus on treating real-world constraints not as edge cases, but as central considerations in the design and evaluation of future MR systems.
We invite participants to submit short papers prepared in the ACM double-column UbiComp/ISWC 2026 format. The manuscript should have the author's names, affiliations, and contact details. We encourage submissions in one of the three formats:
Position paper: up to 4 pages, excluding references and appendices, to articulate viewpoints, conceptual arguments, provocations, identify emerging challenges, or propose forward-looking ideas.
Research proposal: up to 4 pages, excluding references and appendices, describing work in progress, planned studies, early findings, or prototype systems.
Research paper: up to 6 pages, excluding references and appendices, for more mature work reporting developed concepts or empirical results.
A video demo/presentation of less than 10 minutes may be submitted as supplementary material; however, the paper should remain fully understandable without requiring readers to check the supplementary material. Each paper will receive two single-blind reviews. Reviews will consider originality, relevance to the workshop theme, clarity, methodological soundness where applicable, and potential to stimulate discussion. Authors of accepted papers will be offered the opportunity to publish their work in the ACM Digital Library as the UbiComp Adjunct Proceedings and will give a short talk (about 5-10 minutes) to seed discussions and activities. Accepted papers will optionally be available on the workshop website with the authors' consent. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop.
To participate in our workshop, please register through the Google Form link.
PLEASE NOTE: We welcome all interested participants to join the workshop, whether with or without a submission, but we may prioritise participants who have submitted papers.