Posters and Demonstrations

The Poster and Demonstration Track is an opportunity to present late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. This session is an ideal platform for researchers and practitioners to present their work, engage in discussion regarding their work, and receive valuable feedback. Participants are invited to submit high-quality posters and demonstrations presenting novel ideas, designs, techniques, systems, tools, evaluations, scientific investigations, methodologies, social issues or policy issues relating to any topics that may interest the accessibility community. A poster is a great way to test new ideas, generate interest in a research area, or describe useful or interesting work that is not substantial enough for a full paper presentation. A demonstration is a great way to communicate inventive accessible computing and IT technologies in action.

The submission must clearly demonstrate relevance to accessibility research. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to accessibility, originality, potential significance, topicality, and clarity. A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the Call for Papers.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 P.M. Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12:00).

  • Wednesday, June 25, 2025 – Posters & Demos Submission Deadline
  • Wednesday, July 30, 2025 – Notification of Acceptance
  • Wednesday, August 6, 2025 – Camera Ready Deadline
  • Wednesday, August 20, 2025 – Video Presentations Submission Deadline

Submission Guidelines

ASSETS uses the ACM Publication System (TAPS) process to generate final multi-format representations of accepted papers.

The correct template for submission is: single-column Word Submission Template and single-column LaTeX (using “manuscript” style available in the template). You may also choose to use Overleaf.

Poster and demonstration submissions should be no longer than 5 pages (excluding references). Submissions should be in PDF format. References do not count toward page limits. As a part of the submission for demonstrations, a video is optional, but highly encouraged to showcase the proposed idea/concept.

Writing Guidelines are available to help authors choose appropriate language for writing about technology and people with disabilities.

We will use a fully anonymous review process for Posters and Demos. Authors must anonymize their paper submissions and all supplemental materials. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel, per the ASSETS policy on Program Committees.

Accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings.

Accessible Submissions

Your PDF submission must be accessible. It may take several hours to make your PDF file accessible (adding alt tags, etc.), so be sure to leave time before the submission deadline to do so. Please refer to the instructions on creating an accessible ACM conference paper information on how to accomplish this.

It is expected that posters and demonstrations will be made accessible both at the time of review and for the final submission. Submissions that are not accessible will be desk rejected. If you have questions about making your workshop or demonstration submission accessible, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at access-assets25@acm.org.

How to Submit

The submission deadline is Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 11:59 P.M. Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12:00). Please submit your posters and demonstrations via the Posters and Demonstrations submission site.

Important-Author PCS Account Requirements

ACM continues to update the publication process. Currently, paper metadata will be pulled directly from your personal PCS account. This means that it is crucial for you and all of your co-authors to update the contact information so that names, affiliations, AND primary email addresses are stylized precisely in the way that you all would want to see them in the ACM digital library and on your paper. For example, if you use a personal email address (xyz123@hotmail.com) as your primary contact email in PCS then this email will appear on your paper. Please check your author information and make the necessary changes.

Authorship Guidelines

The ACM Publications Board has recently updated the ACM Authorship Policy in several ways:

  • Addressing the use of generative AI systems in the publications process
  • Clarifying criteria for authorship and the responsibilities of authors
  • Defining prohibited behavior, such as gift, ghost, or purchased authorship
  • Providing a linked FAQ explaining the rationale for the policy and providing additional details

Please read the updated policy at https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship and ensure your submission adheres to it.

Further Information

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

For further information or any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Posters & Demos Chairs, Catie Baker and Roshan Peiris, at poster-demo-assets25@acm.org.