
The conference proceedings volumes will be available at the below links starting December 2nd:
For the first time, ICIDS will be held in a Latin American country inviting us to position ourselves and the conference in this territory and to finally acknowledge the continents’ research and accomplishments in interactive digital storytelling.
The host city of this year is Barranquilla, a city surrounded by different kinds of waterbodies: the Caribbean Sea, the Magdalena river, and the Mallorquín Swamp: an ecosystem where migratory species from both hemispheres mingle. The oceanic and earth forces that led to the formation of the city’s landscape provided the inspiration for the main theme of the conference: STREAMS or CORRIENTES in Spanish. With this topic we aim to draw attention to constant movement, exchange, convergences and divergences within the various systems that we inhabit and are part of. In this sense, we invite the interactive narrative global community to think about our field within posthumanist, multispecies, and pluriversal contexts.
STREAMS ~ CORRIENTES looks into the collisions of different streams of thought that converge into and extend the Interactive Digital Narratives field. What epistemologies are shaping the IDN landscape and enriching our understanding of the interconnectedness among humans, but also with other species and machines? This topic also invites us to revisit the current streams that carry us forward in IDN research and practice. How can and will IDN as a discipline respond to rapidly changing sociopolitical movements, especially concerning issues of identity, representation, and social justice? How do IDNs incorporate and push back against technological currents such as generative AI?
We extend a special invitation to Latin American and Global South scholars and practitioners to submit to any area of the conference. The language of submissions and presentations is English, with simultaneous translation offered during the conference between English and Spanish to facilitate a global and inclusive dialogue. As it is vital for our community to give space to historically marginalized epistemologies, we invite you to reflect how alternative views and applications from the so-called Global South deepen our understanding of interactive digital narratives, narrative structures, themes, audiences, and applications?
We encourage authors to consider possible connections to this theme and we will foreground contributions that focus on the topic. But we also emphasize that there is no requirement that papers or workshops reflect the theme, either implicitly or explicitly – it is meant only as inspiration and is not intended to impose a constraint on other possible contributions and topics relevant to the field of Interactive Digital Storytelling. To that end, we also suggest other areas and modes for presentation, including late-breaking works, a new category introduced last year.
Please review the following areas of interest and descriptions of types of contributions for more consideration:
Areas of Interest
Paper submissions are invited into one of the main conference areas listed below. Please note that the defined areas are intended to be general and we invite authors to interpret them broadly. They are meant to help us find appropriate reviewers and design a program that reflects a diverse range of interests on the topic of Interactive Digital Storytelling.
- Interactive Narrative Design
- Social and Cultural Contexts
- Theory, History, and Foundations
- Tools and Systems
- Virtual Worlds, Performance, Games, and Play
- Applications and Case Studies
Submission categories
Papers may be either long or short but must present interesting and novel work at all stages of completion. The appropriate length should be determined by the author(s) to best represent the material they choose to foreground. All papers may contain images and/or figures. However, note that any images or figures not produced by the authors will require copyright clearance.
- Full papers (4000-6000 words, excluding references, to be published in the proceedings).
- Short papers (2000-4000 words, excluding references, to be published in the proceedings).
- Late Breaking Work (2000-3000 words, excluding references, to be published in the proceedings) describing works in progress, working, presentable systems, or brief explanations of a research project. Late Breaking Work will be presented at the conference in the form of a demo or poster session, not a full presentation, and should be selected if the full or short paper formats are unsuitable for representing the proposed research, due to their unfinished nature.
Authors who submit to the Late-breaking works track will be required to serve as reviewers for the track.
Submissions are accepted through Easychair.
Author Guidelines
Abstracts and references do not count toward the word limits. Authors must anonymize their papers before submission as the peer-review process is double-blind.
Please note that papers must be written in English, and only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered for review. Publication is conditional on a minimum of one author registering for the conference to present the work to the community. Successful submissions will be included as part of the conference proceedings published by Springer. All submissions must follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format, available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs.
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ instructions and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
Please, also consult Springer’s AI policy: https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies/artificial-intelligence–ai-/25428500
The best experience of ICIDS is by attending in person, but this is a fully hybrid conference so remote attendance is possible if none of the authors of a paper can travel to the conference. In this case, publication of the contribution in the proceedings is conditional on registration and remote presentation (either live or as a pre-recorded video, depending on the final arrangements). Remote participants need to be aware that the conference will take place in the COL time zone (GMT +5).
Sincerly,
Dr. John T. Murray
Program Chair
University of Central Florida
Dr. María Cecilia Reyes
Program Chair
Universidad del Norte
icids2024@ardin.online
Important Dates
Submission deadline (full, short): 28th JuneExtended submission deadline: 19th JulyReviews released to authors, start of rebuttal phase: 19th AugustFinal decisions sent to authors: 5th SepLate-Breaking Work Deadline: 13th SeptemberCamera-ready Long and Short Papers due: 4th OctoberLate Breaking Decisions: 4th OctoberCamera Ready Deadline (Late-Breaking Works): 11th October
Program Chairs:
- John T. Murray (University of Central Florida)
- María Cecilia Reyes (Universidad del Norte)
- Interactive Narrative Design:
- Ágnes Bakk (MOME University)
- Alex Mitchel (Singapore University)
- Applications and Case Studies
- Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida)
- Chloe Anne Milligan (Pennsylvania State University)
- Social and Cultural Contexts:
- Cláudia Silva (University of Lisbon)
- Theory, History, and Foundations:
- Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam)
- Dan Cox (University of Central Florida)
- Tools and Systems:
- Ulrike Spierling (Hochschule RheinMain)
- Augusto Salazar (Universidad del Norte)
- Virtual Worlds, Performance, Games, and Play:
- Emily Johnson (University of Central Florida)
- Jonathan Barbara (Saint Martin’s Institute of Higher Education, Malta)
Amnah Ahmad – Google Deepmind, USA
Alejandro Ángel-Torres – Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia
David Antognoli – Columbia College Chicago, USA
Pratama Atmaja – University of Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran”, Indonesia
Ágnes Bakk – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary
Paulo Bala – ITI-LARSyS, Portugal
Jonathan Barbara – Saint Martin’s Institute of Higher Education, Malta
Mattia Bellini – University of Tartu, Estonia
Jessica L. Bitter – Hochschule RheinMain, Germany
Erika Blanco – Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Justin Bortnick – University of Pittsburgh, USA
Jason Boyd – Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Sarah Brown – University of Florida, USA
Alex Calderwood – Montana State University, USA
Andrea Cancino-Borbón – Universidad del Norte
Elin Carstensdottir – University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Sherol Chen – Passion Talks, USA
Angeliki Chrysanthi – University of the Aegean, Greece
Jordan Clapper – Washington State University, USA
Dan Cox – University of Central Florida, USA
Joseph Livingston Crawford-Visbal – Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
Colette Daiute – City University of New York, USA
Giuliana Dettori – CNR-ITD, Italy
Kath Dooley – University of South Australia, Australia
Sabrina Durling-Jones – RISEBA University, Latvia
Daniel Echeverri – Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Carl Erez – University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Jamie Fawcus – Skövde University, Sweden
Iliana Ferrer – Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Caitlin Foley – UMass Lowell, USA
Arnau Gifreu-Castells – ERAM-University of Girona, Spain
Kyle Gonzalez – University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Andrew Gordon – University of Southern California, USA
Lindsay Grace – University of Miami, USA
Mads Haahr – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Paola Harris-Bonet – Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Wolfgang Heiden – Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Lissa Holloway-Attaway – University of Skövde, Sweden
Jussi Holopainen – City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Taylor Howard – University of Central Florida, USA
Andrés Isaza-Giraldo – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Emily Johnson – University of Central Florida, USA
Shi Johnson-Bey – University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Akrivi Katifori – University of Athens, Greece
Jack Kelly – University of California, Santa Cruz
Hartmut Koenitz – Södertörn University, Sweden
Victoria Lagrange – Kennesaw State University, USA
David Lamas – Tallinn University, Estonia
Vincenzo Lombardo – Università di Torino, Italy
Anahí Lovato – Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Kirk Lundblade – University of Central Florida, USA
Abhilash M – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Derek Manns – University of Central Florida, USA
Mark C. Marino – University of Southern California, USA
Terhi Marttila – Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS), Portugal
Michael Merriam – University of Central Florida, USA
Snezana Milosavljevic Milic – University of Nis, Serbia
Alex Mitchell – National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gabriela Muñoz-Barrios – Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Frank Nack – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thomas Neteler – H-BRS University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jorge Palinhos – CEAA-ESAP; ESACT-IPB; ESTC-IPL, Portugal
Mirjam Palosaari-Eladhari – Stockholm University, Sweden
Dave Pape – University at Buffalo, USA
Djordan Papilaya – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Daniel Peniche – Tallinn University, Estonia
Dimitra Petousi – Athena Research & Innovation Center, Greece
Andew Phelps – American University, USA
Derek Reilly – Dalhousie University, Canada
Juan David Rodas – Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Rebecca Rouse – University of Skövde, Sweden
Svetlana Rudenko – Bray Institute of Further Education, Ireland
Morgan Sammut – Independent, USA
Despoina Sampatakou – University of York, UK
Ben Samuel – University of New Orleans, USA
Anca Serbanescu – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yotam Shibolet – Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Samuel Shields – University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Caighlan Smith – Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Cláudia Silva – University of Lisbon, Portugal
Lyle Skains – Bournemouth University, UK
Mel Stanfill – University of Central Florida, USA
Yuqian Sun – Royal College of Art, UK
Michel Andres Toledo Veche – Universidad Viña del Mar, Chile
Renske van Enschot – Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Mauricio Vásquez – EAFIT, Colombia
Jorge Vázquez-Herrero – Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Diego Zavala – Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Hongwei Zhou – University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
The conference proceedings volumes will be available at the below links starting December 2nd: