Call for Work-in-Progress

Work-In-Progress Track

Important Information:

  • Submission Deadline: March 21, 2024 Extended: April 04, 2024
  • Decision Notification: April 30, 2024
  • Camera Ready Submission: May 10, 2024

Selection: Juried
Physical and in person conference.

All deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth

The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into interactive media experiences. It brings together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design, to media studies, media psychology and sociology.
IMX 2024 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 12 to 14, 2024. The theme of the conference is Exploring Archipelago of Ideas: Crafting and Generating Immersive Experiences.

The concept of “Archipelago of Ideas” draws its inspiration from the Stockholm archipelago and its harmonious ecosystem of interconnected islands. In much the same way, this suggests a future where immersive experiences are seamlessly linked, forming a cohesive and immersive narratives for participants. Just as Stockholm’s archipelago offers diverse and interconnected natural beauty, the “Archipelago of Ideas” envisions a world where ideas and technologies come together to generate experiences. This embraces the range from generative to hand crafted experiences, converging on creativity, and the fluidity of experience, and the interconnectedness of innovation.

We encourage researchers, students and practitioners to submit Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers based on their recent viewpoints, new discoveries, and early-stage design and development in disciplines that are in line with the areas of interest of ACM IMX. The WiP track is intended for thought-provoking and out of the box ideas, possibly with early proofs of concept or prototypes, as well as position papers. The WiP session is geared towards early career researchers, but also caters to seasoned scholars for the presentation of unfinished projects. The WiP track thus provides a unique opportunity for exchanging brave new ideas, for receiving feedback on projects currently in progress and for fostering collaborations. We thus encourage submissions that are not merely a report of work done but an input for discussing with fellow researchers at the conference.

Accepted submissions will be presented as a (1-minute) video presentation and a physical poster at the conference. Authors of accepted WiP papers are also invited to bring a demo. The WiP posters will be presented as part of the conference. The accepted WiP papers will be included in conference proceedings (indexed in the ACM Digital Library).

When submitting your work-in-progress paper, you will have to choose one of the following areas to submit your work in:

This topic focuses on advances in audience engagement with media content as a rapidly evolving activity across diverse platforms, devices, and timeframes. It welcomes contributions that seek to understand audiences using a rich variety of analytic approaches including sensing audiences, sentiment analysis, and measuring and monitoring quality of experience. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, consumption trends and behaviors in young audiences, sharing practices and communication strategies, identifying engagement patterns across diverse genres, platforms and demographics, scheduled versus on-demand content consumption, binge viewing, and multi-platform engagement.

This topic is suitable for papers where the primary contribution is the introduction of novel ways of experiencing interactive media content. This includes new forms of media content (e.g. VR, AR, MR, XR, 360°, live-streaming etc.) consumed in diverse ways including across multiple screens, platforms, and in immersive theatres. Application areas include entertainment and information including interactive and generative documentaries, transmedia storytelling, volumetric filmmaking, live performance broadcasts and object-based media productions. Papers in other application areas, such as education, healthcare, wellbeing and governance and decision-making, are also welcome.

This topic focuses on technologies, systems, and interfaces that improve and advance our interactions with media content online, at home, or on the move. It encourages submissions describing technical advancements in streaming systems, content synchronization for multi-platform delivery, and recommendation and companion apps. Additional areas for consideration include games engines for content delivery, location-based and context-aware applications and services and object-based media.

This topic solicits papers describing procedural advances in the preparation, design, and development of media experiences. Areas of interest include new production processes for TV, online video, VR, AR, XR, and 360° formats. Novel tools and workflows using motion capture, volumetric capture and animation are encouraged, as are the presentations of innovative authoring and data-driven tools for interactive or multi-platform content development. In addition to papers describing technical innovations, this topic area is also interested in innovations originating from design and humanities perspectives detailing the authoring process for writing interactive content and the human-centered design methods used to realize these narratives.

This topic focuses on the use of machine learning and/or artificial intelligence techniques to capture, generate, or understand social media experiences and includes areas such as verification and verification scamming, information diffusion, monitoring media bias, misinformation and fake news, predictability of real-world events, and crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence in rich media systems.

This topic focuses on the new business, marketing, purchasing, subscription, and monetising strategies encountered in the new media landscape of TV and online video. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, targeted advertisements, freemium products, programmatic media buying, in-programme recommendations and purchases, exploiting consumption data, monetising second screen experiences, and social media influencer strategies.

The impact of the new interactive media and TV landscape on culture and society is powerful and raises many important and challenging topics for consideration. This area welcomes papers from a wide variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives examining structured reality TV, social media manipulation and targeting, media convergence and platform monopolies, intellectual property, remix culture, fan culture, media activism and participation politics, or tactical media practices. In addition, research concerning media violence, social media addiction, or issues of bias and ethics would also be appropriate for this topic.

This topic focuses on disruptive media practices that seek to challenge traditional media consumption patterns and expand spectator experiences. Authors are invited to describe the design, development of (and response to) constructed video-centric work, or speculate about future-oriented media provocations.

IMX is an inclusive, growing, interdisciplinary community, so if you aren’t sure whether the specifics of your research are in scope then (a) they probably are, and (b) please email wip@imx.acm.org and the chairs will do their best to advise you.

Submission Format

Work-in-Progress should be submitted through the PCS submission system in the form of a maximum 3,000 word paper using the New SIGCHI Proceedings Format. Work-in-Progress paper submissions are not anonymised, and should include name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors. This word count limit is referred to all text, except the following parts:

  • The ACM copyright block (found only in the LaTeX template)
  • The contents of the section “ACM Reference Format” (found only in the LaTeX template)
  • Text included in tables, figures and their captions
  • The reference list
  • Authors Info

Please ensure that you use the right templates available from the ACM; a single column format must be used for the reviewing phase. Word authors should use the single column Word Submission Format. In the LaTeX format, use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}. Use of different templates or formats may result in a desk reject.

We highly encourage authors to prepare accessible submissions. Please check out this guide to get more information on how to make your submissions more accessible. If you have any questions, please contact our accessibility chairs at accessibility@imx.acm.org.

We highly encourage authors to prepare accessible submissions. Please check out this guide to get more information on how to make your submissions more accessible. If you have any questions, please contact our accessibility chairs at accessibility@imx.acm.org.

Authorship

Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. While we will not be using tools to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and will desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. You may also read the SIGCHI blog post on the topic.

Review Process

Your submissions will be reviewed by a panel in a non-blind manner based on originality, creativity, impact, relevance to the topics of IMX and the quality of presentation. The review process will strive to select papers that present novel ideas and approaches, with the potential to spark discussions and interactions at the conference.

At the Conference

To maximize the visibility of your work, accepted submissions will be presented as:

  1. a WiP 1-minute video presentation that is going to be played between paper sessions of the conference, AND
  2. a poster

Authors of accepted papers must give an oral presentation of their work at the conference in person in Stockholm. Authors of accepted contributions will receive the indications of how to present their work at the conference. At least one author must register to attend the conference to give this presentation.

After the Conference

Work-in-Progress papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, indexed in the ACM Digital Library.

ACM's Publication Policy

Work-in-Progress Chairs​

For further details on scope, submission route or any other issues, please get in touch with the Work-in-Progress Chairs at: wip@imx.acm.org

Ahmet Börütecene

Ahmet Börütecene

(Linköping University)
Andrii Matviienko

Andrii Matviienko

(KTH)
Nandhini_Bio_2023

Nandhini Giri

(Purdue University)