Call for Contributions

Every historic building hides an archive: drawings, records, terminology, and measurements, dispersed and piling up for centuries. InterHeritage brings together invited voices from research and practice, a contribution from the Archivio di Stato di Torino, and a closing round table, to map how interactive surfaces and spaces can help make sense of construction heritage, from established techniques to immersive environments.

We invite position papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references), in the single-column

ACM manuscript format, from anyone who would like to present their own work alongside the invited contributions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Interactive surfaces and spaces for exploring large, heterogeneous construction-heritage datasets

• Interfaces that make specialised heritage content legible and engaging for non-specialist and public audiences

• Tools and interfaces for collecting, organising, and navigating heritage archives as they grow

• Visualisation techniques for construction-heritage data: drawings, records, terminology, measurements

• Multilingual and cross-archive approaches to heritage terminology and glossaries

• Citizen science and crowdsourcing approaches to heritage data collection

• Case studies from construction history, industrial heritage, or archival digitisation

• Solutions spanning established visualisation techniques through to AI-assisted and immersive approaches

• Evaluation methods for interactive heritage interfaces: usability, engagement, accessibility

• Collaborative and hybrid formats connecting technologists, historians, conservators, and communities

Submissions will be collected via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/ich2026

Position papers will be reviewed by the workshop organisers for quality and relevance. At least one author of each selected position paper must attend the workshop in person. Authors should indicate whether ethical approval was obtained or required for any human-participant research described in their submission.

We particularly welcome first-time ACM authors, including construction historians and heritage practitioners submitting to an ACM-format venue for the first time, direct support (templates, examples, short guidance) is available on request.

InterHeritage also welcomes general attendees who wish to join simply to follow the talks and take part in the closing round table, without submitting anything. Heritage practitioners and early-career researchers who don't yet have a position paper ready are still very welcome, the round table is designed as an open floor where every participant is expected to contribute. 

Submission deadline: October 9, 2026
Notification of acceptance: October 16, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: October 30, 2026
Workshop date: November 23, 2026 

With authors' consent, accepted position papers will be posted on arXiv as a collected, citable set of workshop proceedings with a persistent identifier. 

We welcome asynchronous participation, considered on a case-by-case basis, for authors genuinely unable to travel. Accessibility requirements such as live captioning can be arranged on request, please indicate any needs at registration.