Call for Papers - ETRA 2025

The 2025 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held in Tokyo, Japan, from May 26 to May 29, 2025. ETRA aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from across fields with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward.

Contribution Types

Long Papers

• Submission topics include: Oculomotor research, gaze tracking systems, eye tracking applications, gaze-based interaction, and eye movement data analysis.
• Submission details: Papers must be original and not accepted previously for publication or under review elsewhere. At least one author must register and present accepted work at the conference.
• Publication: Accepted full papers will be published as journal articles in special issues of either PACM CGIT or PACM HCI (author's choice).
• Co-sponsorship: ACM ETRA 2025 is co-sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGGRAPH.
• Submission Process: Details can be found here: https://etra.acm.org/2025/submissionprocess.html
• Required Statement: Authors must include a privacy and ethics statement (two to three sentences) discussing potential societal risks related to their study findings or new advancements. This statement should address broader impacts concerning privacy, fairness, safety, human rights, data sovereignty, future misuse, and benefit/risk trade-offs. Minimal societal risks can be acknowledged, with details from user study design or dataset licenses provided if applicable.

Short Papers

• Focus: Concise and significant contributions to the state of the art.
• Review Process: Double-blind review, assessing originality, technical quality, and relevance.
• Publication: Accepted papers will be archived in the conference proceedings and available in the ACM Digital Library as "ETRA '25 Short Papers".
• Supplementary Material: Videos, code, or datasets are encouraged but not required, and must be anonymized for review. Videos should be in MP4 format with H.264 codec, not exceeding 100 MB.
• Required Statement: Similar to long papers, authors must include a privacy and ethics statement.

Topic Areas

Research contributions are welcomed across a range of topics including, but not limited to:

• Data Analysis: Novel methods (deep learning, machine learning), Scanpath analysis, Clustering, Event detection, Large-scale data processing.
• Prediction methods: Gaze prediction, Action/intent/attribute prediction.
• Visualization: Visual representation of gaze patterns, Visual analytics.
• Eye tracking devices: Head-mounted, Remote, Novel sensors and wearables.
• Perception and cognition; Empirical studies: Perception, attention, oculomotor control, Visual search, Eye movements in reading/communication, Eye-hand coordination, Naturalistic tasks, In-the-wild studies.
• Gaze based interaction: Novel interaction methods, Virtual and augmented reality, Multi-modal interaction, Security and privacy.
• Applications: Education, Driving, Medical/Health, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Graphics and virtual avatars, Media accessibility.

Important Dates (Time Zone AoE/Anywhere on Earth)

Submission Type	Abstract Submission (mandatory)	Paper Submission	First Round Reviews/Notifications	Revisions Due	Second Round Reviews/Notifications	Camera-Ready Deadline
Long Paper	October 26, 2024	November 1, 2024	January 7, 2025	February 18, 2025	March 13, 2025	March 31, 2025
Short Paper	January 14, 2025	January 21, 2025	March 8, 2025	-	-	March 31, 2025
Workshops	--	January 6, 2025	January 20, 2025	--	--	January 31, 2025
Tutorials	--	January 6, 2025	January 24, 2025	--	--	February 7, 2025
Late-Breaking Work	--	rolling deadline	--	--	--	March 31, 2025
Doctoral Consortium	--	March 17, 2025	March 24, 2025	--	--	March 31, 2025

Conference Dates: May 26 - May 29, 2025