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:

- CENTRIC 2026, The Nineteenth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services

CENTRIC 2026 is scheduled to be September 27 - October 1, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain under the SoftNet 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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============== CENTRIC 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


CENTRIC 2026, The Nineteenth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CENTRIC26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitCENTRIC26.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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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


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

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPCENTRIC26.html

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

Advances in the theoretical perspectives on user-centric research

Conceptual advances in UX and user-centricity; The role of UX in innovation and digital transformation; Experience design as a driver of organizational change; Agile UX management

Advances in user-centered systems and design methods

Methodological innovations in user-centered system design; User research in early-stage development and evaluation; Integrating UX and usability into agile and iterative workflows; Risks and trade-offs in user-centered innovation; Participatory design and co-creation approaches; Early-stage UX integration.

Affective and emotional user-centric research

Emotional design and affective user interfaces; Recognizing and responding to user emotions and moods; Measuring emotional responses in interaction; Empathy in digital agents and social interfaces; Designing for wellbeing, motivation, and engagement; Ethical considerations in affective UX and emotion recognition

User trust, privacy, and ethical experience research

User trust and transparency in digital systems; Perceived privacy and control in personalized services; Ethical UX and responsible design practices; Trust-by-design and human-centered security; User awareness, consent, and empowerment; Evaluating perceived fairness and accountability.

Personalization and adaptive experience design in socio-technical and organizational contexts

Context-aware and adaptive user interfaces; Personalized user journeys and experience flows; Balancing personalization, autonomy, and user control; Evaluating the UX impact of personalization; Social and cultural influences on UX perception; User experience in collaborative and community platforms; UX as part of digital transformation and organizational culture; Experience design for social and collective contexts

Advances in user experience and usability measurement and evaluation

Quantitative and qualitative UX metrics and models; Multi-dimensional UX evaluation frameworks; UX theory; Experience sampling and longitudinal UX research; Predictive and data-driven UX assessment.

User Experience in emerging interaction contexts

UX of immersive and interactive systems (AR, VR, MR); Designing for hybrid, mobile, and spatial experiences; Embodied interaction and gesture-based control; UX in smart environments and interfaces

User-centric human AI interaction

Designing and measuring human-AI interfaces; Interaction for transparency, explainability, human control, and transparency; User experience of AI-assisted tools and recommender systems; Enhancing UX research with AI; Perception and evaluation of AI applications.

Predictive User Experience and Data-driven Design

Predictive UX modeling and simulation techniques; Machine learning approaches for forecasting user satisfaction, usability, and UX; Early-stage UX prediction from interface prototypes or design artifacts; Behavioral analytics and user modeling for experience prediction; Integrating predictive UX insights into agile and DevOps pipelines

Industrial User Experience Research on interactive systems

UX research, evaluation, and design practice in corporate and professional environments, UX integration into early industrial system development, UX data-driven DevOps, New approaches for collaborative workflows between UX, engineering, and operations teams, Continuous UX evaluation and improvement analytics, automation, and adaptive design.

UX of intelligent and connected environments

Experience evaluation and design for smart and ambient environments; Context and situation awareness in user interaction; UX in IoT, wearables, and connected devices; User experience of context-aware recommender systems; AI agents and hybrid ecosystems.


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CENTRIC 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComCENTRIC26.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