Visual Storytelling in Everyday Ubiquity:
Human-AI Co-Creation, Wearable Media, and Plural Futures
📅October 11/12, 2026 | 🕘Half-Day Workshop (3 hours) | 🙋In Person | 📍Shanghai, China
Human-AI Co-Creation, Wearable Media, and Plural Futures
📅October 11/12, 2026 | 🕘Half-Day Workshop (3 hours) | 🙋In Person | 📍Shanghai, China
Overview
We invite scholars, designers, artists, and industry practitioners to submit papers to the workshop Visual Storytelling in Everyday Ubiquity: Human-AI Co-Creation, Wearable Media, and Plural Futures, which will investigate visual methods for communicating ubiquitous computing research, with particular emphasis on wearable media, generative AI, and plural technological futures.
Topics of Interest
This workshop seeks to convene researchers and practitioners to share innovative approaches,identify challenges, and advance methodologies for human-AI collaborative visual communication across diverse cultural contexts. It aims to explore both theoretical foundations and practical applications of visual storytelling for ubiquitous computing.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Visual methods for communicating invisible, ambient, and body-worn technologies
- Human-AI collaborative workflows for rapid visual prototyping of ubiquitous technologies
- Sketch-based techniques and visual grammars for early-stage UbiComp concept development and wearable interface representation
- Speculative design approaches for imagining plural technological futures across diverse communities
- Feminist, postcolonial, and disability justice approaches to visual representation in ubiquitous computing
- Cross-cultural perspectives on wearable technology narratives
- Ethical considerations in AI-generated imagery and algorithmic bias in UbiComp/ISWC visualization
Important Dates (Tentative, AoE)
June 20, 2026
Submission deadline for workshop papers
July 10, 2026
Notification of workshop papers
July 27, 2026
Deadline for camera-ready version of papers
October 11-15, 2026
UbiComp/ISWC 2026 & Workshop, Shanghai, China
Submission Instructions
All papers are submitted via PCS. To create a new submission select "SIGCHI" society, "UbiComp/ISWC Workshop 2026" Conference/Journal, and then select the "UbiComp/ISWC Workshop 2026 Visual Storytelling in Everyday Ubiquity" track.
Papers submitted for review should be 4-8 pages long (excluding references) in the double-column format. Please follow UbiComp's publication vendor instructions to prepare your manuscript.
The submission template can be downloaded from ACM site. Alternatively, the Overleaf version can be found here. Latex documents should use the "sigconf" template style (double column). Word users should use the interim template.
Reviews will be double-blind: no names or affiliations should be included in the submission. Papers will receive two reviews from the technical program committee. If accepted, papers will be published to download in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must be presented in person at Visual Storytelling in Everyday Ubiquity 2026.
Papers submitted for review should be 4-8 pages long (excluding references) in the double-column format. Please follow UbiComp's publication vendor instructions to prepare your manuscript.
The submission template can be downloaded from ACM site. Alternatively, the Overleaf version can be found here. Latex documents should use the "sigconf" template style (double column). Word users should use the interim template.
Reviews will be double-blind: no names or affiliations should be included in the submission. Papers will receive two reviews from the technical program committee. If accepted, papers will be published to download in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must be presented in person at Visual Storytelling in Everyday Ubiquity 2026.
Workshop Organizers