We are thrilled to announce that the 2026 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held in the vibrant city of Marrakesh, Morocco! June 1st to June 4th, 2026 will be a time of exciting discussions, insightful co-located workshops, and groundbreaking research presentations.
ETRA serves as a vital gathering for researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines, all united by the common goal of advancing the field of eye tracking. We cordially invite you to join our global community in Marrakesh. Here, you'll have the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge discussions, attend insightful co-located workshops, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of eye tracking. The symposium will showcase breakthroughs and innovations across various areas, including oculomotor research, gaze tracking systems, eye tracking applications, gaze-based interaction, and sophisticated eye movement data analysis.
We strongly encourage the submission of high-quality, original papers that present novel contributions to any area of eye tracking research and applications. Submissions from all domains are welcome, including visuomotor neuroscience, perception, cognition, and computer-human interaction. Please ensure your paper has not been previously accepted or is not currently under review elsewhere. For accepted work, at least one author must register for and present at the conference.
We're excited to offer authors the choice to publish their accepted full papers as journal articles in special issues of either PACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (PACM CGIT) or PACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI).
However, please be aware of a significant change regarding publication: Effective January 1, 2026, ACM is fully transitioning to 100% Open Access (OA) through its ACM OPEN initiative. This means the entire ACM Digital Library will become freely accessible to everyone worldwide. As an ACM-sponsored conference, ETRA is partof this transition, operating under a "pay-to-publish" model.
To publish your work without incurring a fee, the corresponding author's institutionmust be an ACM OPEN participating member. A comprehensive list of participating countries and institutions is available at https://libraries.acm.org/acmopen/open-participants. (Note: There can only be one corresponding author, who does not necessarily need to be the first author.)
Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a geographic or discretionary financial hardship waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the Policy on Geographic APC Waivers and Discounts Policy and the Policy on Discretionary APC Waivers. Keep in mind that discretionary waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Simply sending a message to ACM indicating an inability to pay an APC is typically an insufficient justification for such a waiver. Waivers are based on the specific circumstances of the author(s) requesting the waiver. ACM does take seriously into consideration the institutional affiliation of the authors and whether it is a reasonable expectation that their institution should be joining the ACM Open program. This is necessary for the long-term financial sustainability of the ACM Open model.
To support a smooth transition and encourage broader ACM Open participation, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy on APC pricing> for 2026. The subsidy will offer :
Authors |
No ACM or SIG members |
At least 1 ACM or SIG member |
| ACM and SIG Sponsored Conference Article | $350 | $250 |
| From a lower-middle-income country | $175 | $125 |
It's important to note that these APCs apply specifically to full and short ETRA papers. They do not apply to other submission categories such as demonstrations, extended abstracts, keynotes, panels, work-in-progress, invited talks, or posters.
Details on the submission process will be available soon at:
https://etra.acm.org/2026
.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 '26 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 materials, including the video, have to be anonymized for review.
Required this year: With burgeoning technological and social applications of eye-tracking research, we now require authors to discuss the potential societal risks that might result from its publication. Authors are required to include a privacy and ethics statement of two to three sentences related to their study findings or new advancements made possible by their developed methods. The privacy and ethics statement should clearly address the broader impacts of their work as it relates to the authors' interpretation of privacy, fairness, safety, human rights, data sovereignty, or future misuse and any benefit/risk trade-off resulting from this research. We acknowledge that some papers may have minimal societal risks beyond those considered by institutional review boards, and the dimensions considered by any review of the user study design or dataset licenses could be provided in this statement.
| Abstract submission (mandatory) | November 3, 2025 |
| Paper submission | November 10, 2025 |
| First round reviews and notifications | January 8, 2026 |
| Revisions due | February 16,2026 |
| Second round reviews and notifications | March 13, 2026 |
| Camera-ready deadline | March 30, 2026 |
Given the rapid advancements and widespread applications of eye-tracking technology, we're now requiring authors to include a Privacy and Ethics Statement in their submissions. This statement, 2-3 sentences in length, should address the potential societal implications of their research, whether from study findings or new methodological advancements.
Specifically, authors should discuss the broader impacts of their work, considering aspects such as privacy, fairness, safety, human rights, data sovereignty, or potential misuse. This includes any resulting benefit-risk trade-offs.
We recognize that some research may pose minimal societal risks beyond those typically reviewed by institutional review boards. In such cases, authors can use this statement to detail how their user study design or dataset licenses address these considerations.
The author list is NOT editable after the abstract deadline. Please make sure all authors, affiliations, and author order are correct. It is important that the author list is complete and correct to ensure the integrity of submissions and their metadata before the peer review process begins. Correct and accurate submission metadata, including the author list, is fundamental to research integrity, with practical implications for conflict of interest and author representation. It is not allowed to add/remove any authors after the abstract deadline has passed. Submissions where changes are required will be withdrawn.
Please ensure that authorship follows the ACM Policy on Authorship and use of large language models (LLMs). You may also read the SIGCHI blog post on the topic that states how to acknowledge the use of such tools. The LLM disclosure should be part of your submission. The paper chairs will investigate cases brought to their attention.