Important Dates
Submission dealine: 16 March 2026 Notification: 30 March 2026 Camera-ready: 13 April 2026 Registration deadline: 21 April 2026 Workshop date: 08 or 09 June 2026
Call for Participation
The main objective of this workshop is to provide a collaborative informal venue for its participants to showcase their latest design, research, or professional work on map-based interfaces and interactions and to share their diverse research and practical expertise, best practices, learnings, and experiences with each other. Through this, the workshop also aims to help the participants to further develop their work and contribute to future research and design in their specific fields in an interdisciplinary manner.
Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit either a short paper or an extended abstract describing their interests and work related to the topics of this workshop. Some of the main topics to be covered by this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
- design and research foundations of map-based interfaces and interactions.
- theories, principles and practices guiding the design of map-based interfaces and interactions.
- uses of map-based interfaces and interactions in targeting societal issues relating to, for instance, environmental or public health crises and challenges.
- applications of map-based interfaces and interactions, in areas such as healthcare, education, entertainment, or media.
- AI-based design and generation of map-based interfaces and interactions, including, for instance, for computer games.
- usability evaluations and user experience studies of map-based interfaces and interactions.
Numbers permitting, the workshop will be open to other participants without a submission.
Submissions
The workshop short paper submissions should be of maximum 6 pages, and the extended abstracts should be 1-2 pages. Submissions should be in PDF format, and prepared according to the ACM Primary Article Template.
Submissions should be made through Easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mapii2026).
The workshop programme committee will review the submitted position papers, and select 10-15 papers for presentation at the workshop based on their quality and relevance to the workshop topics.
The accepted workshop papers will be shared with its participants prior to the workshop. In addition, the workshop will include a discussion session on any future publications, for instance, in the form of a co-authored report or a journal article.