Traditionally, HCSE as a working conference invites research papers, late-breaking results, tool demos, and posters. In addition, the Discussion Forum for PhD Students, introduced at HCSE 2024, is an interactive format that allows PhD students to present and intensively discuss with established researchers their research ideas and get feedback and/or guidance for the continuation of their work in a friendly and constructive atmosphere.
For the Discussion Forum for PhD students, HCSE 2026 welcomes the following type of contributions:
Discussion Forum Papers (5–8 pages + references, and poster design draft) are single-author short papers submitted by PhD students who want to attend the Discussion Forum, describing the suggested topic, accompanied by a poster design draft. The paper will be discussed at the conference, with the aim of providing helpful and constructive guidance to the PhD students on how to move forward with their research. Submitted contributions are not anonymous and will be reviewed single-blind. Further information on this format can be obtained from the conference website.
Different from a usual Doctoral Consortium format, the Discussion Forum is intended to give the possibility to students to receive advice on how to address critical points in their research work, and not on their overall PhD program.
The Discussion Forum will be an open forum during the conference where PhD students, supported by a poster, present shortly their research work and the topic of discussion. The presentation will be followed by timeboxed discussions with a group of attendees. Each poster will be discussed with different discussion groups for up to 90 minutes.
PhD students who want to attend have to submit a short paper, describing the suggested topic (5–8 pages + references, and poster design draft). The short paper must include:
- The title of the work
- The student’s name, university, address, and e-mail address
- Name and e-mail address of the dissertation advisor/supervisor
- The research area or sub-area of the work
- A brief description of their overall PhD research program
- A longer description of the specific discussion topic and its relation to HCSE, its criticalities, why it is important, and what the PhD student wants to discuss with the attendees at the Discussion Forum.
Call for Discussion Forum Papers
HCSE is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design. We aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of interactive system and user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering, artificial intelligence, and human–computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes.
Topics of interest include:
- contributions to the theory and best practices of user-centered design
- involvement of end-users, clients and stakeholders in the design and development process of interactive systems
- socio-technical aspects of interactive software development
- innovative methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems
- rational design, design patterns, and traceability of design choices
- models and model-based approaches for building interactive systems
- methods and tools for low-code and no-code development paradigms
- end-user development, end-user programming, and end-user software engineering
- integration of multiple properties (e.g. usability, (cyber)security, reliability, user experience, privacy, accessibility, etc.) in software development and making them more accessible to developers and users
- design and integration of novel interaction techniques such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality
- context-aware and adaptive interactive systems (e.g. in areas such as digital collaboration, digital and worker assistance)
- software architectures and architectural patterns for interactive systems
- support for new kinds of human–machine interaction (HMI) for increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use or provide artificial intelligence (e.g. autonomous driving or human–robot collaboration)
- artificial intelligence and machine learning to support the development of interactive systems
- human-centered artificial intelligence
- human–AI collaboration and development of hybrid intelligence systems
The Discussion Forum for PhD Students, introduced at HCSE 2024, is an interactive format that allows PhD students to present and intensively discuss with established researchers their research ideas and get feedback and/or guidance for the continuation of their work in a friendly and constructive atmosphere.
- Discussion Forum Papers (5–8 pages + references, and poster design draft) are single-author short papers submitted by PhD students who want to attend the Discussion Forum, describing the suggested topic, accompanied by a poster design draft. The paper will be discussed at the conference, with the aim of providing helpful and constructive guidance to the PhD students on how to move forward with their research. Submitted contributions are not anonymous and will be reviewed single-blind.
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series.
Discussion Forum for PhD Students
Different from a usual Doctoral Consortium format, the Discussion Forum (DF) is intended to give the possibility to students to receive advice on how to address critical points in their research work, and not on their overall PhD program.
The DF will be an open forum during the conference where PhD students, supported by a poster, present shortly their research work and the topic of discussion. The presentation will be followed by timeboxed discussions with a group of attendees. Each poster will be discussed with different discussion groups for up to 90 minutes.
PhD students who want to attend have to submit a short paper, describing the suggested topic (5–8 pages + references, and poster design draft). The short paper must include:
- The title of the work
- The student’s name, university, address, and e-mail address
- Name and e-mail address of the dissertation advisor/supervisor
- The research area or sub-area of the work
- A brief description of their overall PhD research program
- A longer description of the specific discussion topic and its relation to HCSE, its criticalities, why it is important, and what the PhD student wants to discuss with the attendees at the DF.
Submissions and Reviewing Process
All contributions should be submitted via the EasyChair system. All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. PhD Student Discussion Forum submissions will be reviewed single-blind. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly. For PhD Student Discussion Forum submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be reviewed.
It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories.
Proceedings
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer. They must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions.
Presentations
All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions.