UbiComp / ISWC 2025
Call for Participation

UbiComp / ISWC is a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous, pervasive and wearable computing. This includes the design, development, and deployment of ubiquitous, pervasive and wearable computing technologies and the understanding of human experiences and social impacts that these technologies facilitate.

The conference will be held during October, 2025 at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Aalto University is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland, within the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. The close collaboration between the scientific, business and arts communities is intended to foster multi-disciplinary education and research.

Papers published by the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) are invited to present at the main technical tracks of the conference. UbiComp / ISWC also features a separate track for ISWC Briefs and Notes, as well as Workshops, Tutorials, Posters & Demos, Student Challenges, a Doctoral Symposium, and an array of Keynotes.

Join us for UbiComp/ISWC 2025 in-person!

UbiComp/ISWC offers authors a number of ways to publish and present work, interact, discuss and learn, along with dedicated opportunities for students. Each type of submission and its deadlines are described on the pages linked which follow.

Submitting & Presenting

  • Main conference track: IMWUT Papers
    • Deadlines for New submissions: February 1, May 1, and November 1.
    • After each of these deadlines, submissions will be handled according to the IMWUT review process.
  • ISWC Notes & Briefs
  • ISWC Design Exhibition
  • Workshop Proposals
  • Tutorial Proposals
  • Posters & Demos
  • Doctoral Colloquium
  • Video Teasers
  • Student Challenge

Other Calls

  • Student Volunteers
  • Gaetano Borriello Student Award

Submission Process

All submissions are made through the Precision Conference System (PCS 2.0).
Please refer to each submission track for details about the specific submission process.

Templates and Formatting

All UbiComp/ISWC Publications (ISWC Notes and Briefs, Workshops Proposals, Workshop Papers, Posters and Demos, Doctoral Colloquium, ISWC Design Exhibition, Student Competitions), except the IMWUT Papers submissions, are required to use the templates linked below and to follow the formatting and process described in this page.
https://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp-iswc-2025/authors/formatting/

Note that IMWUT papers are published separately and should follow the description available under the dedicated page.

Publication Date

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the UbiComp / ISWC 2025 conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)

SUBMISSION TRACKS

Workshops

Proposal Submission:
March 28, 2025

Author Notification:
April 13, 2025

Paper Submission:
June 15, 2025

Acceptance Notification:
June 29, 2025

Tutorials

Proposal Submission:
April 30, 2025

ISWC Notes and Briefs

Submission:
May 18, 2025

Author Notification:
July 02, 2025

Posters & Demos

Submission:
May 23, 2025

Author Notification:
June 13, 2025

ISWC Design Exhibition

Submission:
June 07, 2025

Author Notification:
July 07, 2025

Camera Ready:
July 26, 2025

Doctoral Colloquium

Submission:
June 15, 2025

Author Notification:
July 13, 2025

Student Challenge

Idea Submission:
June 15, 2025

Author Notification:
June 29, 2025

Deliverables Due:
October 05, 2025

Video Teasers

IMWUT Videos Due:
August 03, 2025

Other Tracks Due:
TBA

UbiComp / ISWC

Past Conferences

The ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) is the result of a merger of the two most renowned conferences in the field: Pervasive and UbiComp. While it retains the name of the latter in recognition of the visionary work of Mark Weiser, its long name reflects the dual history of the new event.

The ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC) discusses novel results in all aspects of wearable computing, and has been colocated with UbiComp and Pervasive since 2013.

A complete list of UbiComp, Pervasive, and ISWC past conferences is provided below.