Due Date: Wednesday, May 28
Change Log:
Thu., May 15: original post
As announced, the Final Project submission will be in the form of a fully formed research paper for an academic venue (journal, conference, workshop) in any submission category (full paper, poster paper, late-breaking work, etc.). We will discuss these formats in class.
This assignment serves as yet another intermediate checkpoint on your project work. You are to pick an intended submission venue and submission category, and define the paper story arc, i.e the main exposition of your contribution(s), from motivation and novelty claims, to mechanisms and artifacts, to evaluation, to results, to findings and discussion, and to conclusions and future work.
For venues, you first can decide between journals, conferences, and workshops. Journal submissions typically have no fixed deadlines, and can be made at anytime. Conferences and workshops have strict submission deadlines. Some conferences have an associated journal track. As we have already discussed, there are a few conference venues in the field of eXtended Reality with upcoming specific deadlines that can provide some ideas:
ACM SUI 2025 conference paper call: https://sui.acm.org/2025/call-for-participation/, (June 10)
ACM VRST 2025 paper conference call: https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2025/index.php/call-for-participation/, (Abstract: July 07, Paper: July 14)
IEEE ISMAR 2025 conference poster call: https://www.ieeeismar.net/2025/contribute/posters/ (July 29)
AAAI 2026 conference call: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/ (Abstract: July 25, Paper: August 1)
IEEE AIXVR 2026: http://www.aixvr.org/ (mid-to-late September)
ACM CHI 2026: https://chi2026.acm.org/ (Abstract: September 04, Paper: September 11)
IEEE Virtual Reality (2026 call not out yet). https://ieeevr.org/2025/contribute/papers/ (September)
ACM IUI (2026 call not out yet) https://iui.acm.org/2025/call_for_papers.html (October)
Other venues that you figure to be better fits for your work are also possible targets. If you are unsure, I recommend that you choose the IEEE VGTC conference style for formatting your paper, as it applies to both ISMAR and VR, and works fairly well.
This submission form collects information about your choice of venue and submission type, as well as the tentative title of your submission, as well as some additional information that should help you think about your paper story arc. This shouldn't be onerous, but is required for every project group. There can be multiple such form submissions per project group in case you are thinking of dividing contributions into different separate submissions!
Voluntary submission items:
If you submit these items, the instructor will give you feedback on your preliminary materials!
An abstract (~150 words) for your submission. Most conference venues expect an abstract for the submission about a week before the actual paper submission date, in order to gauge suitability of topic and to line up reviewers.
A skeleton of a paper in the format appropriate to your chosen venue/submission type, including headings for the main sections, some images that begin to document your story arc, and as much text for the different sections as you have ready at that point. It can be very incomplete, have placeholders with Lorem Ipsum text, etc.
Look at author guidelines for the various venues (e.g. at https://www.ieeeismar.net/2025/contribute/guidelines/authors/).
The Google Form will be due on 11:59.59pm on
Wednesday, May 28th.
If you'd like to get instructor feedback, and especially if you are considering a submission to ACM SUI 2025, please submit your materials on Canvas by 11:59.59pm on
Wednesday, May 28th.