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

Workshop Themes and Key Topics

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