CfP: AMBIENT 2026 || September 27 - October 1, 2026 - Barcelona, Spain

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- AMBIENT 2026, The Sixteenth International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies

AMBIENT 2026 is scheduled to be September 27 - October 1, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain under the NexTech 2026 umbrella.

The submission deadline is June 8, 2026.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

All events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site, online, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, pdf slides.

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============== AMBIENT 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


AMBIENT 2026, The Sixteenth International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/AMBIENT26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitAMBIENT26.html


Event schedule: September 27 - October 1, 2026


Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: June 8, 2026


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: https://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


AMBIENT 2026 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPAMBIENT26.html

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AMBIENT 2026 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Ambient computing environments, sensors and hardware

Fundamental for ambient computing and mechanisms; Environmental sensing and computing; Distributed ambient and artificial intelligence; Autonomic ambient networks and communications; Smart environments and applications; Ubiquitous and mobile computing

Ambient computing and modeling

Sentient Computing; Tracking and sensing networks; Location-based computing; Ambient context modeling and reasoning; Context-aware computing; Local and global sensing; Multi-sensory and multi-modal fusion; Citizen-oriented urban computing

Affective computing and emotional intelligence

Frameworks for affective computing; Principles in emotional intelligence; Concepts in affective robotics; Social aspects of affective computing; Ambient systems embedding emotional intelligence; Empathy in artificial agents; Human-centric obedience towards virtual agents; Affective gaming; Deep multitask learning; Apps for body perceptions and emotions; Multi-sensing and human behavior; Active sensing system for distress detection; Recognition of facial emotions; Automatic prediction of depression and anxiety; Mitigate public speaking anxiety; Prediction of emotion from heartbeat; Conveying emotional awareness; Emotional intelligence; Happiness entailment; Cooperative machine learning; Emotion prediction; Emotion recognition; Emotion in ambiguous speech

Ambient devices, applications and systems

Ambient media and devices; Ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to media objects; Sentient offices; Smart phones; Glasses and filters for ambient game and movie; Social networks and social computing; Semantic-location; Body sensors; Wearable devices; Smart sensors; Smart technologies (smart home, smart metering, smart grids, smart sensors, smart home appliances, etc.)

Ambient services, technology and platforms

Personalized services; Ambient assisted living (AAL) ; Social games; Domotics (Home Automation) ; Domestic robotics; Intelligent homes; Tele-care and Telemedicine; Mobile media; Mobile learning; Emergency services; Ambient-oriented technologies (wireless, social networks) ; Universal access; Ambient platforms; Ambient and mobile social networks

User Friendly Interfaces

Haptic interfaces; Smart user interfaces; Ambient interfaces (touch, gesture, haptics, biometrics) ; Multimodal interfaces and interaction

Ambient Business Models, Privacy and Trust

Business model and business cases, security, privacy and trust, Real-life implementations


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AMBIENT 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComAMBIENT26.html


IARIA Ambassadors

Steve Chan, Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory, USA
Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Monika Maria Moehring, Study Centre for Blind and Disabled Students, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Gie en Germany
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Les Sztandera, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Andreas Rausch, TU Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Timothy Phan, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Manuela Vieira, CTS/ISEL/IPL, Portugal
Luigi Lavazza, Universit dell'Insubria - Varese, Italy