Mindtrek 2025: Academic Mindtrek 2025 Paidia, Nokia Arena Tampere, Finland, October 7-10, 2025 |
| Conference website | https://www.mindtrek.org/academic-mindtrek-2025/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mindtrek2025 |
We are very pleased to announce that the 27th International Academic Mindtrek conference will take place between the 7th and 10th of October 2025 as a hybrid event in Tampere, Finland — in person, and live-streamed online.
The conference welcomes proposals for full papers, workshops, demonstrations and poster presentations as well as applications for our Doctoral Consortium. In addition to these, this year we also accept Pictorials as an alternative format to full papers!
International Academic Mindtrek has been an exciting meeting place for over 25 years, where researchers, experts, and thinkers present results from their latest works regarding the development of novel technology, media, and digital culture for the societies of tomorrow.
Mindtrek provides a unique platform where individuals from different fields, including companies, startups, academia, and government institutions, come together. This diversity fosters collaboration, enabling the transition of research findings into practical applications for the industry. Mindtrek presents an international stage for out-of-the-box research ideas, rooted in practitioners’ expertise.
We welcome full papers, workshops, posters, demos, and doctoral consortium submissions. Additionally, we are excited to announce that, in an effort to diversify the types of submission to the conference and to recognise different ways of producing knowledge, ALSO THIS YEAR WE WELCOME PICTORIAL SUBMISSIONS!
= Full papers, pictorials and workshops =
- May 2nd – Submission deadline
- July 1st – Notification of acceptance
- August 8th - Camera-ready deadline
= Posters, Doctoral Consortium, and Demo =
- July 31st – Submission deadline
- August 11th – Notification of acceptance
- August 18th - Camera-ready deadline
Submission Guidelines
=== Reviewing process and proceedings ===
The Academic Mindtrek conference has a rigorous peer-review process via the EasyChair system. All submissions are peer-reviewed; each paper will be reviewed by three experts in a double-anonymous review. The review process is managed by local track chairs and their international co-chairs and overseen by the conference and academic program chairs. All accepted papers, pictorials, workshops, demonstrations, and posters will be published in the ACM Digital Library under the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Please note that ACM has moved to full Open Access model under which Full papers (including pictorials as an alternative to text-based papers) are required to pay the APC fee. For more information see the Author Guidance published by ACM. The submission opens on the 8th of April, 2025.
=== Full papers ===
All submissions will be peer-reviewed and anonymous. Therefore, please remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. The papers should contain 8-16 pages, excluding the list of references, in ACM single-column format. Mindtrek emphasizes that the length of the submissions should be commensurate with their contribution. Therefore, the authors are encouraged to weigh, particularly for longer papers (more than 12 pages), if their contribution justifies the length of the paper. Papers that do not conform to the page limits (less than 8 pages or more than 16 pages excl. references) might be desk-rejected. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper if accepted.
=== Pictorials === Pictorials are an alternative format to Full Paper (text-based) submissions. They offer a visually rich and design-oriented submission format that emphasizes the role of images, illustrations, and graphical elements in presenting research processes and contributions. This format is particularly suited for works that integrate visual communication as a central component of knowledge production and dissemination, such as research in human-computer interaction, design, media studies, and creative technologies. Pictorials leverage visual storytelling in research communication and are particularly suited for practice-based and artistic research or representing data and concepts in a novel way. This format thus emphasises self-sufficient and visual representation that is comprehensible even without the supportive explanatory text. Pictorials are subject to the same peer review process and scientific rigour criteria as Full Papers and are presented at the conference and published under the same category.
=== Workshops === Mindtrek welcomes both hands-on co-design workshops and presentation-based workshops. The purpose of workshops is to involve and mobilise the Mindtrek community in your research effort, either by working together in hands-on approaches, or by collecting different perspectives and opinions through presentations. Workshop proposals should be papers between 4-6 pages long (ACM single-column format) long excluding references. Workshop proposals should also include the organizing committee, a description of the theme and goals of the workshop, a short CV of organizers, duration, and the schedule. At least one author should attend the conference for organizing the workshop during the conference. In the case of hands-on workshops: in your submission, provide an estimate of how many participants you want to attract. Are you aiming at conference attendees? Would you like to open the workshop to other participants? Please also mention how you will manage the IP of ideas developed in the workshop and if you plan further publications to spin off the workshop. In the case of presentation-based workshops: in your submission, provide a timeline for submissions and reviews. Workshop submissions will be reviewed by track chairs. Depending on the attached number of papers for each workshop, we provide space for either half-day or full-day workshops. Workshop organizers can create their own proceedings of the accepted position papers (e.g., they can publish submitted papers on their workshop web page).
=== Posters ===Poster submissions are meant to showcase work-in-progress research, or research efforts offering a smaller scientific contribution. Poster proposals should be between 4-6 pages long excluding references in ACM single-column format and a poster should be presented during the conference. Poster submission will be reviewed by track chairs. At least one author should attend the conference to present the poster if accepted.
=== Demonstration proposals ===Interactive experience demonstration proposals are meant to showcase artifacts of solutions that can be tested and interacted with at the conference. Proposals should be papers between 4-6 pages long excluding references. Papers submitted as demonstrations should include:
a) a description and motivation of the interactive experience
b) general architecture of the interactive experience
c) description of the main features of the demonstration
d) the emphasis on novelty when compared to other existing related interactive experiences
e) required materials and the setup to illustrate the demonstration at the conference (e.g. displays, electrical outlets, size of the area, poster board)
f) link to the video of the interactive experience demonstration (required)
g) the type of license (if applicable),
h) the website (if applicable)
i) brief description of the scientific basis behind the interactive experience demonstration (if applicable).
Demonstration proposal will be reviewed by track-chairs. At least one author should attend the conference to present the demonstration if accepted.
=== Doctoral Consortium ===
The Doctoral Consortium allows PhD students to present their work in progress doctoral projects and gain feedback and suggestions from experienced mentors. Doctoral Consortium presentation proposals should be papers between 4-6 pages long excluding references. Doctoral Consortium at Mindtrek invites proposals from doctoral students. The Doctoral Consortium is a platform for early-stage doctoral students to present, develop and share ideas. The participants will gain insights from highly acclaimed HCI researchers and feedback on their research work. This forum will also provide visibility and networking platform with fellow researchers.
Selected doctoral consortium entries will be published in the proceedings as short papers.
Please submit the following documents in PDF-format:
- Summary of your doctoral research project including:
1) A brief description of current status of your work;
2) The motivation that drives your dissertation research or what motivated you to begin;
3) A summary of the research objectives/goals/questions;
4) Key concepts or terminology that frames your research;
5) Theoretical framework(s) used in the research;
6) Hypothesis/thesis and/or problem statement;
7) Your research approach and methods;
8) Results to date;
9) On-going and upcoming work.
- Your CV, describing your academic activity and current stage of your doctoral research project.
List of Tracks
The conference is grounded in a strong collaboration between local organizers from Tampere University and international partners. This collaboration merges Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research and development in individual conference Tracks (full information available at the conference website):
1. Accessibility and Inclusion in the Digital Society
Chairs: Markku Turunen (Tampere University), Pauliina Baltzar (Tampere University), Vasiliki Mylonopoulou (University of Gothenburg)
2. The Future of Smart Cities
Chairs: Mattia Thibault (Tampere Univerisy), Leighton Evans (Swansea University).
3. Data for Good
Chairs: Zampeta Legaki (Tampere Univeristy), Daniel Fernández Galeote (Tampere University), Kostas Karpouzis (Panteion University)
4. Linguistic Horizons
Chairs: Daria Dayter (Tampere University), Nina Markl (University of Essex)
5. Fictional, Speculative and Critical Futures
Chairs: Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk (Tampere University), Ahmet Börütecene (Linköping University), Renee Noortman
6. Games and Gamification
Chairs: Juho Hamari (Tampere University) and Benedikt Morschheuser (University of Bamberg)
7. Metaverse
Chairs: Nannan Xi (Tampere University), Katya Krylova (Tampere University) and Marc Riar (IÉSEG School of Management)
8. Human-Nature Interaction
Chairs: Ferran Altarriba Bertran (Escola Universitària ERAM), Sebastian Prost (City St George’s, University of London), Samuel Chovanec (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design)
9. Robots and AI in Everyday Life
Chairs: Sumita Sharma (University of Oulu), Yixiao Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Grace Eden (University of Tartu), and Biju Thankachan (Tampere University).
10. Technology in Education
Chairs: Muhterem Dindar (Tampere University) and Mohammad Khalil (University of Bergen)
Venue
The event will be held in Tampere, Finland, as a hybrid conference.
Contact
=== Academic Mindtrek 2025 Chairs ===
General Chairs: Thomas Olsson and Mila Bujić
Program Chairs: Velvet Spors and Mattia Thibault
=== Contact and more information ===
https://www.mindtrek.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Main-CfP-2025-Academic-Mindtrek.pdf