ACM ISS 2023
Sun 5 - Wed 8 November 2023

ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS) is the premier venue for research on the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces, interactive spaces, and novel interface technologies. Beyond our traditional scope – i.e., interactive tabletops, large displays, multi-display systems, mobile and mini devices – we encourage contributions focused on the use of space and technology around us to bridge the gap between our digital and everyday lives, such as interactive 3D spaces, on-body sensors, interactive art or interactive architecture. We also encourage contributions focused on understanding individual and group needs related to interactive surfaces and interactive spaces, and the impact on individuals and groups of these technologies. We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of such interactive systems.

Dates
Plenary
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Mon 6 Nov

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10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering and Social Events

11:00 - 12:30
Session 1: Mixed RealityPapers at Schenley Ballroom
Chair(s): Mark Hancock University of Waterloo
11:00
22m
Talk
3D Finger Rotation Estimation from Fingerprint Images
Papers
A: Yongjie Duan Tsinghua University, A: Jinyang Yu BNRist, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, A: Jianjiang Feng Tsinghua University, A: Ke He Department of Automation, BNRist, Tsinghua University, A: Jiwen Lu Tsinghua University, A: Jie Zhou Department of Automation, BNRist, Tsinghua University
DOI
11:22
22m
Talk
BlendMR: A Computational Method to Create Ambient Mixed Reality InterfacesBest Paper
Papers
A: Violet Yinuo Han Carnegie Mellon University, A: Hyunsung Cho Carnegie Mellon University, A: Kiyosu Maeda The University of Tokyo, A: Alexandra Ion Carnegie Mellon University, A: David Lindlbauer Carnegie Mellon University
DOI
11:45
22m
Talk
CADTrack: Instructions and Support for Orientation Disambiguation of Near-Symmetrical Objects
Papers
A: João Marcelo Evangelista Belo Aarhus University, A: Jon Wissing Aarhus University, A: Tiare Feuchtner , A: Kaj Grønbæk Aarhus University
DOI Media Attached
12:07
22m
Talk
UbiSurface: A Robotic Touch Surface for Supporting Mid-air Planar Interactions in Room-Scale VR
Papers
A: Ryota Gomi Tohoku University, A: Kazuki Takashima , A: Yuki Onishi Singapore Management University, A: Kazuyuki Fujita , A: Yoshifumi Kitamura Tohoku University
DOI
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch BreakCatering and Social Events

On own

12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering and Social Events

14:00 - 15:30
Session 2: HapticsPapers at Schenley Ballroom
Chair(s): Andrés Lucero Aalto University
14:00
22m
Talk
Aircraft Cockpit Interaction in Virtual Reality with Visual, Auditive, and Vibrotactile Feedback
Papers
A: Stefan Auer University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, A: Christoph Anthes University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, A: Harald Reiterer University of Konstanz, A: Hans Christian Jetter University of Lübeck
DOI
14:22
22m
Talk
Analysis of Product Architectures of Pin Array Technologies for Tactile Displays
Papers
A: Tigmanshu Bhatnagar , A: albert higgins University College London, A: Nicolai Marquardt University College London, A: Mark Miodownik University College London, A: Catherine Holloway University College London
DOI
14:45
22m
Talk
Seeing the Wind: An Interactive Mist Interface for Airflow Input
Papers
A: Tian Min Keio University, Japan, A: Chengshuo Xia Xidian University, A: Takumi Yamamoto Keio University, A: Yuta Sugiura Keio University
DOI
15:07
22m
Talk
BrickStARt: Enabling In-situ Design and Tangible Exploration for Personal Fabrication using Mixed Reality
Papers
A: Evgeny Stemasov Ulm University, A: Jessica Hohn Ulm University, A: Maurice Cordts Ulm University, A: Anja Schikorr Ulm University, A: Enrico Rukzio Ulm University, A: Jan Gugenheimer TU Darmstadt
DOI Media Attached
15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering and Social Events

Tue 7 Nov

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10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3: StudiesPapers at Schenley Ballroom
Chair(s): Everlyne Kimani Toyota Research Institute
11:00
22m
Talk
Clarifying the Effect of Edge Targets in Touch Pointing through Crowdsourced Experiments
Papers
A: Hiroki Usuba Yahoo, A: Shota Yamanaka Yahoo, A: Junichi Sato Yahoo Japan Corporation
DOI
11:22
22m
Talk
Interactions across Displays and Space: A Study of Virtual Reality Streaming Practices on TwitchHonorable Mention
Papers
A: Liwei Wu University of Waterloo, A: Qing Liu University of Waterloo, A: Jian Zhao University of Waterloo, A: Edward Lank University of Waterloo; Inria
DOI
11:45
22m
Talk
Using Online Videos as the Basis for Developing Design Guidelines: A Case Study of AR-Based Assembly Instructions
Papers
A: Dongwook Yoon University of British Columbia, A: Ivan Song University of British Columbia, A: Cuong Nguyen Adobe Research, A: Laura Mariah Herman Adobe, Inc., A: Frances JiHae Sin University of British Columbia, A: Niu Chen University of British Columbia
DOI
12:07
22m
Talk
Evaluating the Applicability of GUI-Based Steering Laws to VR Car Driving: A Case of Curved Constrained PathsHonorable Mention
Papers
A: Shota Yamanaka Yahoo, A: Takumi Takaku Meiji University, A: Yukina Funazaki Meiji University , A: Noboru Seto Meiji University, A: Satoshi Nakamura School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences
DOI
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch BreakCatering and Social Events

On own

12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering and Social Events

14:15 - 15:30
Session 4: GesturePapers at Schenley Ballroom
Chair(s): Ville Mäkelä University of Waterloo
14:15
25m
Talk
WorldPoint: Finger Pointing as a Rapid and Natural Trigger for In-the-Wild Mobile Interactions
Papers
A: Daehwa Kim Carnegie Mellon University, A: Vimal Mollyn Carnegie Mellon University, A: Chris Harrison Carnegie Mellon University
DOI
14:40
25m
Talk
1D-Touch: NLP-Assisted Coarse Text Selection via a Semi-Direct Gesture
Papers
A: Peiling Jiang UCSD, A: Li Feng City University of Hong Kong, A: Fuling Sun University of California, San Diego, A: Parakrant Sarkar City University of Hong Kong, A: Haijun Xia UCSD, A: Can Liu City University of Hong Kong
DOI
15:05
25m
Talk
Cross-Domain Gesture Sequence Recognition for Two-Player Exergames using COTS mmWave Radar
Papers
A: Ahsan Jamal Akbar Shanghai Jiao Tong University, A: Zhiyao Sheng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, A: Qian Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, A: Dong Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
DOI
15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering and Social Events

16:00 - 17:15
Session 5: Pervasive + ProxemicsPapers at Schenley Ballroom
Chair(s): Can Liu City University of Hong Kong
16:00
25m
Talk
Reality and Beyond: Proxemics as a Lens for Designing Handheld Collaborative Augmented RealityHonorable Mention
Papers
A: Mille Skovhus Lunding Aarhus University, A: Jens Emil Grønbæk The University of Melbourne, A: Nicolai Grymer Aarhus University, A: Thomas Wells Lancaster University, A: Steven Houben TU Eindhoven, A: Marianne Graves Petersen Aarhus University
DOI Media Attached
16:25
25m
Talk
SeatmateVR: Proxemic Cues for Close Bystander-Awareness in Virtual Reality
Papers
A: Jingyi Li LMU Munich, A: Hyerim Park LMU Munich, A: Robin Welsch Aalto University, A: Sven Mayer LMU Munich, A: Andreas Martin Butz LMU Munich
DOI
16:50
25m
Talk
SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing
Papers
A: Florian Echtler Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark, A: Vitus Maierhöfer University of Regensburg, A: Nicolai Brodersen Hansen Aalborg University, A: Raphael Wimmer University of Regensburg
DOI
17:15 - 18:00
17:15
45m
Coffee break
Break
Catering and Social Events

18:00 - 21:00
Reception Banquet and AwardsCatering and Social Events at Schenley Ballroom
18:00
3h
Awards
Awards
Catering and Social Events

Wed 8 Nov

Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change

10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering and Social Events

11:00 - 12:15
Session 6: Immersion, Audio, and MultimediaPapers at Schenley Ballroom
Chair(s): Tigmanshu Bhatnagar
11:00
25m
Talk
Embodied Provenance for Immersive Sensemaking
Papers
A: Yidan Zhang Monash University, A: Barrett Ens Monash University, A: Kadek Satriadi Monash University, A: Ying Yang Monash University, A: Sarah Goodwin Monash
DOI Media Attached
11:25
25m
Talk
Hum-ble Beginnings: Developing Touch- and Proximity-Input-Based Interfaces for Zoo-Housed Giraffes’ Audio EnrichmentHonorable Mention
Papers
A: Alana Grant University of Glasgow, A: Vilma Kankaanpää University of Glasgow, A: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas University of Glasgow
DOI
11:50
25m
Talk
Interactive 3D Annotation of Objects in Moving Videos from Sparse Multi-view Frames
Papers
A: Kotaro Oomori The University of Tokyo, A: Wataru Kawabe The University of Tokyo, A: Fabrice Matulic Preferred Networks, A: Takeo Igarashi The University of Tokyo, A: Keita Higuchi Preferred Networks
DOI

Not scheduled yet

Not scheduled yet
Talk
Understanding the Effects of Movement Direction on 2D Touch Pointing Tasks
Papers
A: Xinyong Zhang Renmin University of China
DOI

Accepted Papers

Title
1D-Touch: NLP-Assisted Coarse Text Selection via a Semi-Direct Gesture
Papers
DOI
3D Finger Rotation Estimation from Fingerprint Images
Papers
DOI
Aircraft Cockpit Interaction in Virtual Reality with Visual, Auditive, and Vibrotactile Feedback
Papers
DOI
Analysis of Product Architectures of Pin Array Technologies for Tactile Displays
Papers
DOI
BlendMR: A Computational Method to Create Ambient Mixed Reality InterfacesBest Paper
Papers
DOI
BrickStARt: Enabling In-situ Design and Tangible Exploration for Personal Fabrication using Mixed Reality
Papers
DOI Media Attached
CADTrack: Instructions and Support for Orientation Disambiguation of Near-Symmetrical Objects
Papers
DOI Media Attached
Clarifying the Effect of Edge Targets in Touch Pointing through Crowdsourced Experiments
Papers
DOI
Cross-Domain Gesture Sequence Recognition for Two-Player Exergames using COTS mmWave Radar
Papers
DOI
Embodied Provenance for Immersive Sensemaking
Papers
DOI Media Attached
Evaluating the Applicability of GUI-Based Steering Laws to VR Car Driving: A Case of Curved Constrained PathsHonorable Mention
Papers
DOI
Hum-ble Beginnings: Developing Touch- and Proximity-Input-Based Interfaces for Zoo-Housed Giraffes’ Audio EnrichmentHonorable Mention
Papers
DOI
Interactions across Displays and Space: A Study of Virtual Reality Streaming Practices on TwitchHonorable Mention
Papers
DOI
Interactive 3D Annotation of Objects in Moving Videos from Sparse Multi-view Frames
Papers
DOI
Reality and Beyond: Proxemics as a Lens for Designing Handheld Collaborative Augmented RealityHonorable Mention
Papers
DOI Media Attached
SeatmateVR: Proxemic Cues for Close Bystander-Awareness in Virtual Reality
Papers
DOI
Seeing the Wind: An Interactive Mist Interface for Airflow Input
Papers
DOI
SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing
Papers
DOI
UbiSurface: A Robotic Touch Surface for Supporting Mid-air Planar Interactions in Room-Scale VR
Papers
DOI
Understanding the Effects of Movement Direction on 2D Touch Pointing Tasks
Papers
DOI
Using Online Videos as the Basis for Developing Design Guidelines: A Case Study of AR-Based Assembly Instructions
Papers
DOI
WorldPoint: Finger Pointing as a Rapid and Natural Trigger for In-the-Wild Mobile Interactions
Papers
DOI

Call for Contributions - July

ACM ISS 2023, Nov 5-8 2023 in Pittsburgh, United States (https://iss2023.acm.org/), has two separate submission rounds (February and July) with separate deadlines. This is the call for the July round of ISS 2023.

The conference welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces as well as novel interface technologies, including (but not limited to):

  • Large display interfaces and multi-display environments
  • Gesture-based interfaces (hands, fingers, body)
  • Multimodal interfaces
  • Tangible user interfaces
  • Novel interaction techniques and paradigms
  • Interaction with mobile and body-worn devices
  • Different materials and form factors: curved, sand, water, …
  • Interactive 3D spaces (Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality, mid-air displays, …)
  • Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, …)
  • Interactive architecture
  • Beyond traditional surfaces: shape-changing and actuated surfaces, body-related
  • Interactive information visualization/data presentation
  • Software engineering methods and frameworks
  • Social aspects and protocols related to interacting with surfaces and spaces
  • Interactive surfaces and spaces that support group work or social interaction
  • Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities, and results from maker communities
  • Human-centered design and methodologies related to interactive surfaces and spaces
  • Empirical evaluations of novel interactive surfaces and/or spaces designs
  • Evaluations of deployed interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.)

PUBLICATION MODEL: PACMHCI Journal

Full papers are selected using a refereed process, meeting the ACM’s highest requirements for rigorous review by the ISS Editorial Board, its associate editors, and peer experts. Papers accepted in any round of submission will be published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci.

Accepted papers are invited to present at the conference in November 2023. Presenting at the conference is strongly recommended but not required. ACM ISS 2023 will be a hybrid event where both in-person and remote participation is supported.

Submissions will be done through http://new.precisionconference.com

PUBLICATION FEES

For all accepted papers, regardless of conference attendance, at least one author must register for the conference in the corresponding author category and pay a registration fee for the work to be published in PACM HCI.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions to PACMHCI ISS should present original and mature research work. High-quality, elaborated case studies and practice reports with generalizable findings will also be considered. Papers should be written using the template provided by PACMHCI, https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/submission-templates.

Submissions should be anonymized. Primarily, this means that submissions must remove all author and institutional information from the title and header area of the first page. Author information should also be removed from submitted supplementary materials, in particular, videos. Submissions that do not do so may be rejected without review. Furthermore, all references must remain intact. If you previously published a paper and your current submission builds on that work, the complete reference with the author’s name must appear in the references. Authors must refer to their previous work in the third person (e.g., “We build on prior work by Smith et al. [X] but generalize their algorithm to new settings.”) and avoid blank references (e.g., “12. REMOVED FOR REVIEWING”). Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper (for example, in an Acknowledgements section), while encouraged, is left to the authors’ discretion.

LENGTH

No minimum or maximum length is imposed on papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its length when making decisions about acceptance and revisions. Shorter, more focused papers will be reviewed with the expectation of a small, focused contribution. Papers whose length is incommensurate with their contribution will be rejected.

We recommend a page length in the new format of between 5-15 pages + any additional pages for references. Typical papers are under 8,500 words.

FORMATTING AND LANGUAGE

ACM authoring templates and detailed instructions on formatting can be found at https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions.

Authors should submit manuscripts for review in a single column format, which is available for LaTeX (use the “manuscript” call to create a single column format) and Word.

  • Word users: if the typefaces are not showing up correctly, be sure you have installed the fonts included in the ACM template download.

  • LaTeX authors: On Overleaf authors can use the provided ACM templates. Authors can use the settings \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} to remove author information and add line numbers for the review process.

Please use inclusive language throughout your papers. Some commonly-used charged terminology and alternative suggestions can be found at: https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/words-matter. Please avoid using gendered language, ableist language, and racialized terminology.

You are asked to provide alt-text descriptions for all figures in your submission. Writing good descriptive text is important, so please look at http://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/describing-figures/ for guidance and examples.

REVISIONS

ISS will be returning submissions to the primary contact author with one of the following decisions, along with the reviews, after the first review cycle of this submission round:

  • Accept: Submissions that receive this decision are ready or nearly ready for publication, though they may require a few small changes. The final version of the paper must be submitted by the camera-ready deadline of ISS 2023 for verification by the corresponding associate editor.

  • Minor revision: Submissions that receive this decision will require some revisions before being accepted for publication during this submission round. The revised submission must be submitted at the revision deadline to enter this round’s second review cycle, along with a brief response to the reviewers’ comments. The revision will be verified by the corresponding associate editor in collaboration with the external reviewers, and if approved, the submission will be promoted to an accepted paper.

  • Major revision: Submissions that receive this decision have real potential, but will require major portions rewritten or redone before acceptance is possible. To allow extra time for such new work, e.g., conducting a new evaluation, they cannot enter the second review cycle of the current submission round anymore but need to be resubmitted and re-reviewed in a future ISS submission round. Resubmissions of revised manuscripts with a “major revision” from previous rounds to future rounds will not receive another “major revision” and will be either accepted or rejected.

Submissions that receive “major revisions” in the ISS 2023 July round will not make it for presentation at ISS 2023, but will be invited for presentation at ISS 2024, provided the submission is accepted in a later round. To the extent possible, resubmissions will be assigned the same associate editors and reviewers for re-review.

Authors should submit their revised manuscript to PCS and clearly indicate the submission ID, title, and previous ISS round of the original submission. They also should include an anonymized letter explaining how they addressed the reviewers’ comments and incorporated changes in the revision.

  • Reject: Submissions that receive this decision have been determined to be not acceptable in their current form and also not able to complete the needed revisions for ISS 2023. However, authors are encouraged to resubmit strongly revised versions of their work to ISS 2024.

  • Desk / Quick Reject: Authors should only submit completed work of publishable quality and within the scope of ISS. The Associate Editors and Papers Chairs may Quick Reject any submission that they believe has little chance of being accepted if it goes through the peer review process. Incomplete or otherwise inappropriate submissions will be desk rejected without review.

OPEN AND TRANSPARENT SCIENCE

Authors are encouraged to submit supplementary material when possible and when aligned with their methods. Authors are encouraged to submit links to preregistrations on the Open Science Framework (OSF) when appropriate for their work. Authors are also encouraged to use open access repositories and make their data and other material FAIR when appropriate for their work. Authors are encouraged to describe efforts to make their work more reproducible. Reviewers are encouraged to support evolving approaches to supporting open and transparent research practices. Supplementary material is not considered to be peer reviewed.

Ville Mäkelä, University of Waterloo, Canada
Florian Alt, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
ACM ISS 2023 July Round Papers Chairs

Call for Contributions - February

The conference welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces as well as novel interface technologies, including (but not limited to):

  • Large display interfaces and multi-display environments
  • Gesture-based interfaces (hands, finger, body)
  • Multimodal interfaces
  • Tangible user interfaces
  • Novel interaction techniques and paradigms
  • Interaction with mobile and body-worn devices
  • Different materials and form factors: curved, sand, water, …
  • Interactive 3D spaces (Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality, mid-air displays, …)
  • Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, …)
  • Interactive architecture
  • Beyond traditional surfaces: shape-changing and actuated surfaces, body-related
  • Interactive information visualization/data presentation
  • Software engineering methods and frameworks
  • Social aspects and protocols related to interacting with surfaces and spaces
  • Interactive surfaces and spaces that support group work or social interaction
  • Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities, and results from maker communities
  • Human-centered design and methodologies related to interactive surfaces and spaces
  • Empirical evaluations of novel interactive surfaces and/or spaces designs
  • Evaluations of deployed interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.)

PUBLICATION MODEL: PACMHCI Journal

Full papers are selected using a refereed process, meeting the ACM’s highest requirements for rigorous review by the ISS Editorial Board, its associate editors, and peer experts. Papers accepted in any round of submission will be published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci.

Accepted papers are invited to present at the conference in November 2023. Presenting at the conference is strongly recommended but not required. ACM ISS 2023 will be a hybrid event where both in-person and remote participation is supported.

The conference retains its workshop, poster, and demo tracks, which will have their own publication outlet. The call for workshops, posters, and demos will be included in the July round.

Submissions will be done through http://new.precisionconference.com

PUBLICATION FEES

For all accepted papers, regardless of conference attendance, at least one author must register for the conference in the corresponding author category and pay a registration fee for the work to be published in PACM HCI.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions to PACMHCI ISS should present original and mature research work. High-quality, elaborated case studies and practice reports with generalizable findings will also be considered. Papers should be written using the template provided by PACMHCI, https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/submission-templates.

Submissions should be anonymized. Primarily, this means that submissions must remove all author and institutional information from the title and header area of the first page. Author information should also be removed from submitted supplementary materials, in particular, videos. Submissions that do not do so may be rejected without review. Furthermore, all references must remain intact. If you previously published a paper and your current submission builds on that work, the complete reference with the author’s name must appear in the references. Authors must refer to their previous work in the third person (e.g., “We build on prior work by Smith et al. [X] but generalize their algorithm to new settings.”) and avoid blank references (e.g., “12. REMOVED FOR REVIEWING”). Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper (for example, in an Acknowledgements section), while encouraged, is left to the authors’ discretion.

LENGTH

No minimum or maximum length is imposed on papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its length when making decisions about acceptance and revisions. Shorter, more focused papers will be reviewed with the expectation of a small, focused contribution. Papers whose length is incommensurate with their contribution will be rejected.

We recommend a page length in the new format of between 5-15 pages + any additional pages for references. Typical papers are under 8,500 words.

FORMATTING AND LANGUAGE

ACM authoring templates and detailed instructions on formatting can be found at https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/submission-templates.

Authors should submit manuscripts for review in a single column format, which is available for Word and LaTeX. Manuscripts should be converted to PDF before submission.

  • Word users: if the typefaces are not showing up correctly, be sure you have installed the fonts included in the ACM template download.

  • LaTeX authors: On Overleaf authors can use the provided ACM templates. Authors can use the settings \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} to remove author information and add line numbers for the review process.

Please use inclusive language throughout your papers. Some commonly-used charged terminology and alternative suggestions can be found at: https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/words-matter. Please avoid using gendered language, ableist language, and racialized terminology.

You are asked to provide alt-text descriptions for all figures in your submission. Writing good descriptive text is important, so please look at http://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/describing-figures/ for guidance and examples.

REVISIONS

ISS will be returning submissions to the primary contact author with one of the following decisions, along with the reviews, after the first review cycle of this submission round:

  • Accept: Submissions that receive this decision are ready or nearly ready for publication, though they may require a few small changes. The final version of the paper must be submitted by the camera-ready deadline of ISS 2023 for verification by the corresponding associate editor.

  • Minor revision: Submissions that receive this decision will require some revisions before being accepted for publication during this submission round. The revised submission must be submitted at the revision deadline to enter this round’s second review cycle, along with a brief response to the reviewers’ comments. The revision will be verified by the corresponding associate editor in collaboration with the external reviewers, and if approved, the submission will be promoted to an accepted paper.

  • Major revision: Submissions that receive this decision have real potential, but will require major portions rewritten or redone before acceptance is possible. To allow extra time for such new work, e.g., conducting a new evaluation, they cannot enter the second review cycle of the current submission round anymore but need to be resubmitted and re-reviewed in a future ISS submission round. Resubmissions of revised manuscripts with a “major revision” from previous rounds to future rounds will not receive another “major revision” and will be either accepted or rejected.

To still be considered for presentation at ISS 2023, the revised submission must be submitted in the ISS 2023 July round. To the extent possible, resubmissions to the ISS 2023 July round will also be assigned the same associate editors and reviewers for re-review. This will not be the case for submissions in later rounds.

Authors should submit their revised manuscript to PCS and clearly indicate the submission ID, title, and previous ISS round of the original submission. They also should include an anonymized letter explaining how they addressed the reviewers’ comments and incorporated changes in the revision.

  • Reject: Submissions that receive this decision have been determined to be not acceptable in their current form and also not able to complete the needed revisions for ISS 2023. Rejected papers are also not able to submit a revision to ISS 2023 July round. However, authors are encouraged to resubmit strongly revised versions of their work to ISS 2024.

  • Desk / Quick Reject: Authors should only submit completed work of publishable quality and within the scope of ISS. The Associate Editors and Papers Chairs may Quick Reject any submission that they believe has little chance of being accepted if it goes through the peer review process. Incomplete or otherwise inappropriate submissions will be desk rejected without review.

OPEN AND TRANSPARENT SCIENCE

Authors are encouraged to submit supplementary material when possible and when aligned with their methods. Authors are encouraged to submit links to preregistrations on the Open Science Framework (OSF) when appropriate for their work. Authors are also encouraged to use open access repositories and make their data and other material FAIR when appropriate for their work. Authors are encouraged to describe efforts to make their work more reproducible. Reviewers are encouraged to support evolving approaches to supporting open and transparent research practices. Supplementary material is not considered to be peer reviewed.

Andres Lucero, Aalto University, Finland
Ville Mäkelä, University of Waterloo, Canada
ACM ISS 2023 Associate Editors