The 2021 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held in Stuttgart, Germany from May 25 to 29, 2021. The aim of ETRA is to bring together researchers and practitioners from across fields with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward. Join us in Stuttgart for ETRA, attend co-located workshops, and participate in exciting discussions.

The symposium presents advances and innovations in oculomotor research, gaze tracking systems, eye tracking applications, gaze-based interaction, and eye movement data analysis. We invite papers in all areas of eye tracking research and applications, and welcome submissions from all domains, including visuomotor neuroscience, perception, and cognition.

Papers must be original and not accepted previously for publication elsewhere. All accepted papers will be published and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author must register and present accepted work at the conference.

ACM ETRA 2021 is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH).

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Authors are invited to submit original work in the format of full papers (see details of the submission instructions here). A full paper should provide a substantial contribution to the field in the topic areas mentioned above.

All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process assessing the originality and technical quality of the work as well as the relevance for eye tracking research and applications. Accepted papers will be archived in the conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library as "ETRA '21 Full Papers". All accepted full papers will be presented at the conference.

Full papers will go through a two-phase review process. The first phase will involve four full reviews done by two program committee members and two external reviewers. At the end of the first phase, advised by the review summary provided by the primary committee member, the chairs will provide authors with a conditional accept or reject decision. Conditionally accepted papers will be provided with recommendations for revisions and are invited to submit a revised version of the paper that will go through a second review phase. The primary program committee member will assess the revisions and make a recommendation to the chairs for a final accept or reject decision.

Submissions may include supplementary material, such as videos, code, or datasets that will be archived together with the paper in the ACM DL. Authors should keep in mind that the final acceptance to the conference will be based on the quality of the paper and not the supplementary material. Video submissions are not required, but encouraged to help demonstrate interactive systems that are otherwise difficult to showcase using images or text. Videos should use the MP4 format with H.264 codec and file size should not exceed 100 MB. We recommend the standard 1920x1080 resolution (1280x720 as an alternative). Any supplementary material, including the video, have to be anonymized for review.

Authors are also invited to submit original work in a shorter format (see details of the submission instructions here). A short paper should provide a focused and concise, yet significant, contribution to the current state of the art while not delving into broad discussion.

All short paper submissions will undergo a double-blind review process assessing the originality and technical quality of the work, as well as the relevance for eye tracking research and applications. Accepted papers will be archived in the conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library as "ETRA '21 Short Papers". Details about the presentation format will follow after the acceptance notification.

Short papers will go through a single-phase review process. Full reviews will be provided by three committee members. External reviewers will be invited on a case by case basis if specialized expertise is required. After the review process, based on the review summary provided by the primary committee member, the authors will receive the final acceptance or rejection notification.

Submissions may include supplementary material, such as videos, code, or datasets that will be archived together with the paper in the ACM DL. Authors should keep in mind that the final acceptance to the conference will be based on the quality of the paper and not the supplementary material. Video submissions are not required, but encouraged to help demonstrate interactive systems that are otherwise difficult to showcase using images or text. Videos should use the MP4 format with H.264 codec and file size should not exceed 100 MB. We recommend the standard 1920x1080 resolution (1280x720 as an alternative). Any supplementary material, including the video, have to be anonymized for review.