IEEE World Haptics Conference 2025
Long and Regular Papers
IEEE World Haptics Conference 2025
Long and Regular Papers
Long and Regular Papers
Long and Regular Papers
Long Papers – NEW CATEGORY!
After a double-blind review process, accepted long papers will be presented via an oral presentation at WHC 2025 and published in IEEE Xplore. The length is from 8 to 12 pages plus up to 3 pages of references. This new long paper category aligns well with publishing practices in computer science allowing authors to publish substantial high-quality conference papers and survey papers.
Regular Papers
After a double-blind review process, accepted regular papers (previously called technical papers) will be presented via an oral presentation or a poster at WHC 2025 and published in IEEE Xplore. The length is from 4 to 6 pages plus up to 2 pages of references.
Formatting: Papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions available here. The templates for papers can be downloaded in Word or Latex format. Documents should be formatted in US Letter size.
Double-blind review: WHC’25 is using a double-blind review process, which means reviewers will not know any information about the people who wrote the papers they are reviewing. The WHC Conference Editorial Board (CEB) first chose this reviewing model in 2023 based on best practices advised by the available literature, which indicates that double-blind review may help reduce reviewer biases and increase the perception of fairness. The CEB decided to continue using double-blind review in 2025 based on the strongly positive results of the survey of WHC’23 authors, reviewers, and Associate Editors. Therefore, authors must not include their names, affiliations, or other identifying information anywhere in the version of the paper that they submit for review.
Detailed anonymization suggestions:
To ensure the paper length is adhered to, authors should use dummy text for the list of authors and affiliations. Particular care should be taken when describing prior papers published by the authors; write about your own prior work in the third person (e.g., using “Lastname et al.”), as you do with papers by other authors, and include the full citation. Avoid using the first person (e.g., “we”, “I”, “our”) when talking about your prior work, and avoid disclosing your institution or country in the paper text. Images and videos should also be anonymized, for example, removing or blurring recognizable faces, institution logos, and any other identifiable information for the initial submission. Funding information and other acknowledgments should be anonymized for the initial submission and deanonymized for the final version (after acceptance). Lastly, identifiable metadata should be removed from the submitted PDF using Adobe Acrobat or other PDF editing tools.
Submitted papers will be checked for compliance with this double-blind policy. Papers that have not been properly anonymized may be desk-rejected, or their authors may be required to make corrections before the submission can be sent out for review. Questions and comments about this double-blind review process should be addressed to [email protected].
Supplementary video figure (optional):
Authors may choose to submit a video figure, e.g., to highlight aspects of the contribution which are hard to fully understand from static figures. Reviewers should be able to assess the contribution of the paper solely based on the PDF, i.e., the paper submission must stand on its own without the supplementary video. As detailed above, videos must be anonymized for double-blind review and can be deanonymized for the final version (after acceptance).
Video figures should be no more than five minutes long, with a file size less than 200 MB. We recommend a resolution of 1080p (1920 x 1080) or 4k (3840 x 2160), encoded as an MP4 using the H.264 codec.
Inclusion: We encourage authors to review the guidelines for an inclusive submission.
Subcommittees: All submitted papers that comply with these anonymization requirements will be peer-reviewed. To ensure a good match between the papers and the reviewers, each submission will be considered by one of three subcommittees:
- Understanding Touch: uncovering new scientific understanding of the sense of touch and related capabilities of humans and other organisms. Sample topics include human haptic perception, psychophysics, the neuroscience of touch, and biomechanics and motor control.
- Technology and Systems: developing and characterizing new technologies and systems for delivering haptic feedback or facilitating haptic interaction. Sample topics include haptic interface design and control, tactile displays, haptic sensors, haptic actuators, teleoperation, robotic manipulation, haptic modeling and rendering, shared haptic control, and physical human-robot interaction (pHRI).
- Applications and Interaction: designing and understanding the role of haptics in particular applications or types of interactions. Sample topics include human-computer interaction (HCI) involving haptics, multimodal systems, virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), telepresence, embedded/ubiquitous haptics, and haptics in applications such as industrial, commercial, medical, health, art, and design.
Authors will be asked to indicate their preferred subcommittee on the paper submission website.
Submission: The WHC’25 papers submission portal will open by January 1, 2025.
Awards and Special Issue of ToH
Detailed information will be shared in January 2025.
Important dates
- – January 31, 2025: Regular and Long Paper Submission Deadline (Firm, No Extensions)
- – April 16, 2025: Regular and Long Paper Acceptance Notification
- – Mid-May, 2025: Camera-ready Paper Submission Deadline