ISIM

Workshop Website:  ISIM 2026

The future of media experiences poses a series of thrilling challenges, but the appearance of novel technologies, formats and mediums brings a new wave of opportunities to reimagine content (co-)creation, hybridization, distribution, interaction and engagement possibilities.

While opportunities are endless, the 3rd edition of “Interaction and Storytelling with(in) Immersive Media (ISIM)” Workshop aims to explore and discuss the potential and implications of integrating emerging immersive media technologies and formats (e.g., Point Clouds, light field, 3D Gaussian Splatting, spatial audio, multi-sensory stimuli…), potentially assisted with Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, to enable new avenues for evocative consumption experiences and increased engagement. In particular, the primary focus will be on exploring and ideating new multimodal interaction and storytelling possibilities with and within immersive media environments, so as to maximize the potential benefits and revenues.

Under the umbrella of cross-fertilization actions between key EU projects in this area, ISIM aims at bringing together worldwide enthusiastic academia and industry players, as well as end users and stakeholders, to discuss ideas, challenges, and opportunities in this domain, with a key focus on the added value to the consumers, and thus indirectly to industry players in this domain (content creators, content service providers, manufacturers, technologists…) and thus to the worldwide society.

Keynote: AI-assisted volumetric video by Aljosa Smolic (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Interactive and Immersive Media
• Storytelling
• Multimodal Experience
• Hybrid XR
• Quality of Exprience

Workshop Format

The workshop will be an on-site event, co-located with ACM IMX 2026. 

Type of submissions/contributions that will be solicited:

• Long papers (4-6 pages, excluding references). Oral presentation (15min).
• Short papers (2-3 pages, excluding references). Oral presentation (8min).

Organizers

• Mario Montagud (University of Valencia & i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
• Iris Jennes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, imec-SMIT , Belgium)
• Anna Matamala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
• Maurizio Murroni (University of Cagliari, Italy)
• Sergi Fernández (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)