EAI ArtsIT 2026 invites submissions for its Posters and Demos Track, welcoming innovative and thought-provoking contributions across all areas related to art, immersive technologies, interactivity, and creative collaboration.

This track is especially intended to provide PhD students and early-stage researchers with a valuable platform to present their ideas and ongoing research, receive constructive feedback from an international audience, and foster engaging discussions with peers and experts in the field. Poster and demo presentations offer a space to share work-in-progress, preliminary results, or innovative concepts that are not yet ready for full paper submission but have strong potential for future development and publication.

Authors of accepted posters/ demos submissions will be required to:

• Submit a PDF version of their poster or demo overview by the Submission deadline.

• Bring a printed copy of the poster or prepare a live/demo-ready version for onsite presentation during the dedicated session at the conference venue.

EAI ArtsIT 2026 is planned as an onsite event in Bratislava, Slovakia, and at least one author of each accepted poster or demo must register and attend the conference to present their work in person.

• Art Science and Technology
• Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
• Audio Art & Sonification
• Computational Creativity
• Design
• Digital Artworks Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals
• Digital Cultural Heritage
• Digital Musical Interfaces
• Digital Storytelling
• Games & Gamification
• Human–Computer & Human–Robot Interaction
• Interactive Art & Interactive Installations
• Media Art
• Metaverse, Avatars and Presence
• Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Performance
• Virtual Worlds and Practices
• Art Therapy

• Domna Banakou, LAMPA laboratory of Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France

• Erifyli-Ourania Birmpili, Hellenic Open University, School of Applied Arts, Greece

Accepted, registered and presented posters and demos will be submitted for publication by Springer (LNICST series) and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library as the part of the ArtsIT 2026 conference proceedings.

Posters and Demos will be published as a part of the EAI ArtsIT 2026 Conference Proceedings in a non-indexed Annex section for a Special posters & demo student registration fee.

Poster and demo submissions should be a maximum of 5 pages, including references, figures, tables, and appendix.

1. Go to Confy+ website.
2. Log in or sign up as a new user.
3. Select your desired track.
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions.

• All papers must be submitted in English. 

• Submitted PDFs should be anonymized.

• Double-blind review process.

• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review. 
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section). 
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

• Submission closes at 23:59 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) on the day of the Submission Deadline.

• As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text)

HOW TO WRITE GOOD ALT TEXT

For full information, click HERE.

AI Authorship Policy

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. Notably an attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs. We thus ask that the use of an LLM be properly documented in the Acknowledgements, or in the Introduction or Preface of the manuscript.

The use of an LLM (or other AI-tool) for “AI assisted copy editing” purposes does not need to be declared. In this context, we define the term “AI assisted copy editing” as AI-assisted improvements to human-generated texts for readability and style, and to ensure that the texts are free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation and tone. These AI-assisted improvements may include wording and formatting changes to the texts, but do not include generative editorial work and autonomous content creation. In all cases, there must be human accountability for the final version of the text and agreement from the authors that the edits reflect their original work. This reflects a similar stance taken on the AI generative figures policy, where it was acknowledged that there are cases where AI can be used to generate a figure without being concerned about copyright e.g. to generate a graph based on data provided by the author. 

AI Authorship Guidance

Authors should familiarise themselves with the current known risks of using AI models before using them in their manuscript. AI models have been known to plagiarise content and to create false content. As such, authors should carry out due diligence to ensure that any AI-generated content in their book is correct, appropriately referenced, and follow the standards as laid out in our Book Authors’ Code of Conduct.

AI-generated Images Policy

The fast-moving area of generative AI image creation has resulted in novel legal copyright and research integrity issues. As publishers, we strictly follow existing copyright law and best practices regarding publication ethics. While legal issues relating to AI-generated images and videos remain broadly unresolved, Springer Nature journals and books are unable to permit its use for publication.

Exceptions:

• Images/art obtained from agencies that we have contractual relationships with that have created images in a legally acceptable manner.
• Images and videos that are directly referenced in a piece that is specifically about AI and such cases will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
• The use of generative AI tools developed with specific sets of underlying scientific data that can be attributed, checked and verified for accuracy, provided that ethics, copyright and terms of use restrictions are adhered to.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive in .ZIP file, containing LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.