The European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
15 – 18 September 2026 Siena, Italy
Doctoral Consortium
ECCE 2026’s doctoral consortium is a full day session taking place on Tuesday, September 15th 2026. It is intended for doctoral students working in the broad field of cognitive ergonomics and human-media interaction.
The doctoral colloquium is an opportunity to present issues of concern relating to doctoral studies, meet fellow doctoral students, and get extensive feedback from the chairs and other participants. It is primarily intended for students in the middle of their studies (you have started your study and already done some work, but it is not too late to make changes based on feedback).
We especially welcome submissions that address the conference theme: Toward a new sustainable and peaceful alliance between humanity and technology.
Doctoral students accepted for the doctoral consortium receive full registration sponsorship from the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE).
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Submission Details
Submission Format
Submissions must have the following components:
- Doctoral colloquium paper
Doctoral consortium papers are 3-4 pages long, excluding references. - Image
Authors should also upload the poster to be presented at the conference as a still image with at least 1500 x 1200 px. - Curriculum vitae
You are required to send your academic resumé with a list of publications. - Support letter
You are required to send a letter of recommendation signed by your supervisor.
Online Submission
All papers must be submitted through EasyChair.
After logging in as an author, you will be able to select the appropriate submission category.
Authoring Templates
All submissions must follow the ACM single-column format using the official ACM publication templates.
Templates and formatting guidelines are available here:
Please ensure that your submission is fully anonymized:
- Remove author names, affiliations, and identifying information from the manuscript.
- Ensure that metadata (such as document properties) do not contain author information.
- References to your own previous work should remain in the bibliography, but should be written in the third person (e.g., “As described in [10]…” instead of “In our previous work [10]…”).
Selection Process
Doctoral consortium papers will be juried.
Publication
A selection of position papers from the doctoral consortium will be published in the Proceedings of ECCE 2026 and the ACM Digital Library.
Presentation at the Conference
Doctoral students accepted for the doctoral consortium receive full registration sponsorship. Authors of accepted papers must participate in the doctoral consortium and register for the conference. Participants will be asked to read two other submissions and be prepared to give feedback to those students during the consortium.