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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">π’ Call for Papers</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> β
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">NIDIT 2026 Workshop on Novel Input Devices and Interaction Techniques @ IEEE VR, Daegu, Korea</span></div>
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Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located.</div>
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Submission Deadline: <i>January 15th, 2026</i></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Final Notification Deadline: <i>January 19th, 2026</i></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Camera-Ready Submission: <i>January 24th, 2026</i></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 8pt 36pt;">
Workshop: <i>March 21st or 22nd, 2026 (tentative)</i></li></ul>
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π Description:</div>
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Virtual, Augmented, and Extended Reality (VR/AR/XR) technologies have rapidly evolved from experimental prototypes into mainstream platforms for research, industry, and entertainment. Recent advances in display technologies have led to high-resolution, ergonomic,
and β critically β low-cost head-mounted displays (HMDs). Yet, advances in commercial input devices and interaction techniques have arguably not kept pace with improvements in display systems. For instance, many commercial systems still depend on input methods
that have changed little since the early days of VR. Bridging this gap requires rethinking how humans communicate with immersive systems through new input devices and interaction techniques. The NIDIT 2026 Workshop calls on the community to shape this next
generation of input technologies and interaction methods.</div>
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<b>Are you working on novel input devices and interactions for extended reality (XR)?</b> Join us at the 7th Workshop on Novel Input Devices and Interaction Techniques (NIDIT) to share, discuss your work, and experience the future of 3DUI!</div>
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π Topics of Interest:</div>
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Form factors and ergonomics of novel input devices,</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Hardware design, rapid prototyping, and fabrication for XR,</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Mapping of input to varying degrees of freedom and body tracking,</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
AI-driven and adaptive input recognition (LLMs, multimodal fusion),</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Eye-gaze, EMG, EEG, and bio-sensing-based interaction,</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Repurposing existing devices (e.g., smartphones, wearables, tablets) for immersive contexts,</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Sustainable and accessible input design approaches,</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
User studies evaluating usability, learning, and cognition in novel interaction techniques,</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Integration of multimodal feedback and co-adaptive systems,</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 8pt 36pt;">
Interaction frameworks supporting embodied cognition and spatial reasoning</li></ul>
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βοΈ Submission Details:</div>
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Follow the VGTC conference template.</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Papers 4-6 pages, including references.</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0px 0px 8pt 36pt;">
Accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital Library.</li></ul>
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π₯Organizers:</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.2;" role="presentation"><i>Prashant Rawat, Dalhousie University,
</i><span style="color: blue;"><i><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="1" title="mailto:mbarrera@dal.ca" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA1b2eae59-7adc-904a-8435-e57078db3d04" href="mailto:mbarrera@dal.ca">prashant.rawat@dal.ca</a></u></i></span></div>
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<i>Mohammad Raihanul Bashar, Concordia University, </i><span style="color: blue;"><i><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="2" title="mailto:mohammadraihanul.bashar@mail.concordia.ca" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA05b3d292-a3b2-092e-d5b2-85ba388edd93" href="mailto:mohammadraihanul.bashar@mail.concordia.ca">mohammadraihanul.bashar@mail.concordia.ca</a></u></i></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.2;" role="presentation"><i>Kristen Grinyer, Carleton University,
</i><span style="color: blue;"><i><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="3" title="mailto:kristengrinyer@cmail.carleton.ca" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4c5ef85e-905f-d988-9a1e-43e03c246e14" href="mailto:kristengrinyer@cmail.carleton.ca">kristengrinyer@cmail.carleton.ca</a></i></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.2;" role="presentation"><i>Mayra Barrera Machuca, University of Calgary,
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<div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.2;" role="presentation"><i>Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Concordia University,
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<div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.2;" role="presentation"><i>Francisco R. Ortega, Colorado State University,
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