2nd Edition ISIM: Interaction and Storytelling with(in) Immersive Media (ISIM)  

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The future of media experiences poses a series of thrilling challenges, but the appearance of novel technologies, formats and mediums brings a new wave of opportunities to reimagine content (co-)creation, hybridization, distribution, interaction and engagement possibilities.  

While opportunities are endless, the 2nd edition of “Interaction and Storytelling with(in) Immersive Media (ISIM)” Workshop aims to explore and discuss the potential and implications of integrating emerging immersive media technologies and formats (e.g., Point Clouds, light field, 3D Gaussian Splatting, spatial audio, multi-sensory stimuli…), potentially assisted with Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, to enable new avenues for evocative consumption experiences and increased engagement. In particular, the primary focus will be on exploring and ideating new multimodal interaction and storytelling possibilities with and within immersive media environments, so as to maximize the potential benefits and revenues. 

Under the umbrella of cross-fertilization actions between key EU projects in this area, ISIM aims at bringing together worldwide enthusiastic academia and industry players, as well as end users and stakeholders, to discuss ideas, challenges, and opportunities in this domain, with a key focus on the added value to the consumers, and thus indirectly to industry players in this domain (content creators, content service providers, manufacturers, technologists…) and thus to the worldwide society. 

ISIM 2025 builds upon a very successful edition in 2024, which gathered around 40 participants, 7 papers’ presentations and 6 projects’ presentations (2 of them shared with Video4IMX workshop): https://transmixr.eu/isim-workshop/  

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • Content (co-)creation tools
  • Content format optimization techniques
  • Content production tools
  • Content blending strategies
  • Content sharing, search, and discovery (by e.g. using online repositories)
  • AI-assisted content creation and processing
  • Multi-sensory stimuli (spatial audio, textual information, haptics, scents…)
  • Multimodal interaction with(in) immersive media
  • Orchestration and adaptation to target consumption platforms and devices
  • End-to-end workflows
  • Storytelling approaches
  • Accessibility and inclusivity
  • Scenarios and use cases
  • Deployment and adoptability implications and barriers
  • Evaluation methodologies
  • Standardization activities within such topics
  • New provoking ideas and visions
  • Market opportunities and business models

Workshop Format

ISIM will be a full-day on-site event on June 3rd 2025, co-located with ACM IMX 2025. However, online presentations can be in addition accommodated (clustered in an online slot), if interest by potential contributors.  

The workshop agenda will be shared upon having the papers’ review process, but it is expect to include:

(i) a keynote speaker;

(ii) enlightening visionary talks by collaborative R&I projects and initiatives;

(iii) 15-min presentation slots for long papers, reporting on impactful results / insights;

(iv) 8-min presentation slots for long papers, reporting on early results and novel ideas;

(v) a brainstorming & panel discussion; and

(vi) a wrap-up slot summarizing insights and lessons learned, and planning next steps 

Submission Information

Type(s) of submissions/contributions

  • Long papers (4-6 pages, excluding references). Oral presentation (15min). 
  • Short papers (2-3 pages, excluding references). Oral presentation (8min). 
  • Papers need to be submitted using double-column ACM template 

Submission URL: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi (there authors have to choose IMX2025 and then the corresponding track/workshop ISIM) 

[Demos will be welcome, but must be accompanied with a paper submission]

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: March 10th, 2025 April 8th, 2025 
  • Acceptance Notification: April 21st, 2025 
  • Camera Ready Version: April 28th, 2025 
  • Workshop: June 3rd, 2025 

Proceedings 

Workshop proceedings will be published in the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) Open Library – SOL 

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Co-Organizers and Projects’ Representatives 

Co-Organizer Entity Project Representative 
Mario Montagud University of Valencia & i2CAT Foundation 6G-XR, EVOLVE, REVOLUTION, HEAT 
Iris Jennes Vrije Universiteit Brussel, imec-SMIT  PRESENCE, TRANSMIXR 
Maurizio Murroni University of Cagliari HEAT 
Sergi Fernández i2CAT Foundation XRECO, PRESENCE