VINCI 2025: Call for Papers

The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '25) will be held in Linz, Austria, from December 1-3, 2025.

VINCI is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state of the art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications.

Submission Tracks

VINCI '25 invites a variety of submissions, including:

• Technical Papers
• Art Papers
• Art and Media Galleries
• Cultural Heritage Special Track

Topics of Interest

We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, artistic projects, or other visual media. Research papers should address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies.

Topics for Technical Papers:

• Visual communication metaphors
• Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension
• Empirical studies of novel visual metaphors
• Visualization on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other fields
• Aesthetics in visual communication and computational aesthetics
• Influence of visual arts and design to visual communication
• Information visualization and visual analytics
• Visual approaches to knowledge discovery
• Visual interaction through multimodality
• Visualization on mobile devices
• Graph drawing and network visualization
• Visual modeling languages
• Visual programming languages
• Graphical user interface design
• Human-computer interaction
• Explainable AI
• Applications in SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, etc.

Topics for Art Papers & Art and Media Galleries:

• Generative Art & Design
• Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC)
• Metaverse applications (Education, Health and Medicine, Fitness, Sport)
• Digital-twin applications (IoT management, Property management, Smart Manufacturing)
• Creative Visualization
• Critical Visualization
• Visualization for Culture/Cultural Heritage
• Tangible Visualization
• Data Sculpturing
• Visual Storytelling
• Data Art & Design
• Information Aesthetics
• Interactive Graphics & Design
• Real-time Simulation
• Creative Applications of Scientific Illustration
• Video Art
• AI Video/Film
• Digital Human applications (Education, Culture, Cultural Heritage, Sport)

Submission Types and Page Limits

All submissions will be strictly peer-reviewed by at least three members of our international program committee.

Technical Papers:

• Full Papers: max. 8 pages (incl. references!)
• Short Papers: max. 4 pages + 1 extra page which contains ONLY references
• Posters: max. 2 pages (incl. references!)

Art Papers:

• Full Papers: max. 8 pages (incl. references!)
• Short Papers: max. 4 pages + 1 extra page which contains ONLY references
• Posters: max. 2 pages (incl. references!)

Art and Media Galleries:

• Media Demos: Novel experiences, productions, and applications (e.g., Metaverse, Digital Twin, Digital Human, AI Video).
• Artworks: Artistic creations exploring new artistic expression, creativity, and creation possibilities suitable for display on a digital screen or canvas, including AIGC artworks.

Submissions for both types should include up to 2 pages of poster/description/artist’s statement. Works should have been completed within the last 5 years (in or after 2020).

Publication

• The peer-reviewed conference proceedings will be published by ACM as part of the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS).
• Published papers will also be indexed by EI.
• Selected high-impact full-text papers will be considered for special issues in the Journal of Visualization and Information Visualization.

ACM Open Access Fees

Authors based at institutions that are not part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. For detailed guidance, please visit: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance

Important Dates (All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE))

• Technical Papers Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 June 27, 2025 (extended)
• Art Papers Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 June 27, 2025 (extended)
• Art and Media Galleries Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 June 27, 2025 (extended)
• Cultural Heritage Special Track Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance (for all tracks): July 25, 2025
• Paper submission of revised version: August 22, 2025
• Final notification: September 5, 2025
• Conference Dates: December 1-3, 2025

Submission Link

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