Submission Deadline
All deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (GMT/UTC-12:00)
Paper Submission Deadline: January 05, 2026
Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2026
Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: January 22, 2026
WORKSHOP DATE: March 21/22, 2026
Call for Papers
This IMMER-SENSE workshop aims to bring together researchers, designers, artists, and practitioners from XR, sensing, and HCI to explore this convergence. We seek to rethink how sensing technologies, human perception, and interaction design intersect , and to spark dialogue around the opportunities and challenges of creating multisensory, embodied, and ethically grounded XR experiences.
IMMER-SENSE 2026 welcomes 2–4 page short papers, position and posters, including (but not limited to):
Early-stage research, prototypes, and technical concepts
Position papers offering new perspectives on sensing and immersion
Design explorations and conceptual frameworks
Ongoing work, demonstrations, and preliminary findings
Studies exploring multisensory, adaptive, embodied, and affect-aware XR systems
Work examining ethical, privacy, or accessibility issues in sensing-based XR
We invite contributions spanning diverse disciplines, including (but not limited to):
Adaptive and affective XR using biosignals (sEMG, IMU, EEG, EDA/GSR, ECG, HR, eye tracking etc.)
Embodiment, presence, and physiological/behavioral sensing
Context-aware XR integrating spatial, environmental, and wearable sensors
Multimodal data fusion, synchronization, and interoperability challenges for XR
Ethics, privacy, and responsible data practices for XR
Accessibility and inclusive sensing approaches for XR
Naturalistic, real-world XR evaluation methods
Intelligent, sensing-driven XR interactions
Multisensory immersion and emotional engagement in XR
Benchmarks, datasets, and open challenges for XR sensing
Cross-disciplinary design approaches involving psychology, HCI, engineering, and creative practice for sensing and XR
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be written in English and follow the IEEE Computer Society VGTC (IEEE VR Conference) format. Templates (LaTeX/Word) and sample PDF are available at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/.
Submissions must be uploaded in PDF format via EasyChair (link TBD). All paper submissions will be reviewed by at least two committee members using a double-blind review process. Accepted papers will receive camera-ready preparation instructions along with the notification of acceptance.
Submission will be through PCS. Submission Link and all other updates will be updated on the workshop website.
Format and Submission
Format:
Submissions must be written in English.
Submissions must follow the IEEE Computer Society VGTC format.
(Format link: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/)
Submission:
Submissions must use the EasyChair portal. (Link is TBD )
All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members.
The review process will be double-blind.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop.
Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and included on the workshop website.
Accepted papers will be given guidelines for preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.
Camera-ready Submission Guidelines
This page contains detailed instructions on uploading the camera-ready version of your workshop paper and supplementary materials. Please read it carefully.
Camera-ready version need to be prepared following the VGTC format.
Please follow this link for the template: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/;
preferably, use the IEEE VGTC Conference LaTeX Template: https://github.com/ieeevgtc/vgtc_conference_latex/releases
HIGHLIGHTS:
1. Materials are due “January 30, 2026 (23:59 AoE)”
2. Paper materials must be uploaded into two different systems: Precision Conference System (PCS) and IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS).
3. The CPS system will handle the copyright release process.
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UPLOAD INTO PCS AND IEEE CPS
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A. Upload into PCS
By “January 30, 2026 (23:59 AoE),” the submitting author needs to log into PCS and upload the following information:
Paper title
Author names
Author affiliations
Presenting author
Camera-ready PDF paper
Supplementary materials
Make sure the paper title, author names, and affiliation names are spelled correctly, use proper extended Latin characters (é, ã, etc.), and are capitalized correctly (for example: Jane Strummür). Otherwise, these may appear incorrectly in the technical program, website, and IEEE DL table of contents.
B. Upload into IEEE CPS
In addition, by “January 30, 2026 (23:59 AoE),” the submitting author needs to log into CPS and upload the following information:
● Paper ID (see below for the format)
● Submitter name
● Submitter email
● Paper title
● Abstract
● Keywords
● For Each Author:
○ Author name (IEEE DL)
○ Author affiliation
○ Author email
○ Author ORCiD
● Camera-ready PDF
● Supplementary files (video, appendices, etc.)
Use this link to log into IEEE CPS: Please refer to each email.
Please do not share this link, as anyone with the link will be able to upload a paper on your behalf. The submitting author will need to use an IEEE CPS login account or create one. This will be the same account used to upload a directly submitted TVCG or IEEE VR/ISMAR paper or any materials uploaded for other conferences previously. IEEE CPS is what IEEE uses to load your paper and associated metadata into the IEEE Digital Library (DL). Make sure that your name and affiliation are spelled and capitalized correctly. Once a mistake in the spelling, formatting, or capitalization of your name or affiliation makes it into the IEEE Digital Library, it is very difficult to fix.
Important: At this stage, changes to the author list—whether additions or removals—are not permitted. The paper must be submitted with the same authors and author order as in the initial submission in PCS. Non-compliance will result in the immediate rejection of your paper.
Copyright release: The CPS system will walk the submitting author through a copyright release process. Note that IEEE will not publish a paper in the DL without a copyright release, and IEEE VR 2026 will not allow such a paper to appear in the technical program or be presented at the conference.
Paper ID: Please use the same paper ID assigned by PCS. Please put one of the keys provided below in front of the paper ID, e.g., “W-XXX-1234” for paper ID “1234.”
-> W-IMMERSENSE for Workshop on Immersion and Sensing for XR Experiences
Author ORCiD: Although submitting an ORCiD is not required, we encourage all authors to submit an ORCiD, and to create an ORCiD if they do not already have one. An ORCiD is a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes an author from every other author, even another author with the same name.
IEEE eXpress: The CPS system provides access to IEEE eXpress, which is an online tool for creating a PDF version that meets IEEE CPS and DL requirements, such as embedded fonts.