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Call for Doctoral Consortium

Last updated: 2026-03-17 16:00AM CET

Overview

The Doctoral Consortium at ISMAR 2026 is a concentrated event where students present their research interests, plans, and results to a panel of researchers in related fields and receive specific and constructive feedback, including opportunities to meet with mentors one-on-one. Accepted students will be expected to give in-depth presentations of their research and will receive valuable comments from mentors. Additionally, accepted students will create a poster to share their work with ISMAR ’26 Doctoral Consortium and general conference attendees. Accepted students will have the option to publish their two-page extended abstract in the conference proceedings and to be included in the ISMAR 2026 online program. Abstracts may be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Eligibility and Topics

Ideal candidates will be in the early or mid-stage of their PhD and should have a solid idea of their research direction as well as dissertation topic, which may still have room for improvement. The consortium welcomes applicants from a broad range of disciplines including VR, AR, 3D user interfaces, human-computer interaction, wearable computing, social informatics, information technology, cognitive science, and related fields.

Important Deadlines

Submission Guidelines

To apply to the Doctoral Consortium, please submit the following two documents via this application submission page. All submissions to the Doctoral Consortium should be prepared in IEEE Computer Society VGTC format.

  1. Position paper up to two pages in length (including references). The paper must clearly motivate, discuss, and summarize the proposed PhD research, describe how the research fits into and advances research in the field, and report on your progress. You may additionally focus on a more specific area of the research if desired. In the concluding section, you should identify two to three questions or areas for improvement that you would like to discuss during the Doctoral Consortium.

  2. A one-page Curriculum Vitae.

Note: Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.

Questions?

For any enquiries, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chairs at dc2026@ieeeismar.net