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.
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. 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).
List of Topics
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
2. The Future of Smart Cities
3. Data for Good
4. Linguistic Horizons
5. Fictional, Speculative and Critical Futures
6. Games and Gamification
7. Metaverse
8. Human-Nature Interaction
9. Robots and AI in Everyday Life
10. Technology in Education
Venue
The event will be held in Tampere, Finland, as a hybrid conference.
Contact
=== Academic Mindtrek 2024 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