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.
Authors must confirm compliance with this double-blind policy during submission, and submitted papers will be checked for proper anonymization before review. 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 formatting, length, and 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 are asked to indicate their preferred subcommittee on the paper submission website.
Commitment to Reviewing for WHC 2025:
To provide all authors with constructive feedback, we need a robust pool of proficient reviewers. Each submission that is not desk-rejected will receive at least two (typically three) independent reviews plus a summary from an Associate Editor.
To expand our reviewing pool and uphold high-quality reviews, we require one or more authors of each submission to register as a reviewer in PCS during submission and agree to review at least three papers combined. For example, three authors can each volunteer to review one paper, one author can volunteer to review three papers, or any other combination. Moreover, we urge senior authors to encourage capable junior authors to register in PCS as reviewers and mentor them through the review process.
Authors should volunteer at https://new.precisionconference.com/review_volunteering – login or create an account, set “Society” to “World Haptics Conference” and “Conference/Journal” to “WHC 2025”, and then choose the number of papers you are willing to review in the dropdown menu next to “Long and Regular Papers”. To help us match papers to reviewers, please also upload sample papers that show your areas of expertise at https://new.precisionconference.com/sample_pubs.
During submission, authors are asked to identify which of their submission’s authors have volunteered to review for WHC 2025.
Ethical Conduct of Research:
Haptics research frequently involves human participants in experiments and observational studies. Ethical treatment of human participants is a core value of the haptics community, as it is for the broader international scientific research community.
While we recognize that institutions around the world differ in their specific requirements, we expect the authors of all submitted papers to adhere to basic ethical guidelines for the treatment of human participants, as embodied in historical documents such as the Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki.
Submitting authors are required to declare either that no human participants were involved in the research reported in their submission or that human participants took part in the reported research, and standard ethical practices were followed, as described in the submitted paper.
Student Award Eligibility:
Awards for best student paper and/or best student presentation might be selected at the 2025 IEEE World Haptics Conference. The eligibility requirements are as follows:
- The paper was written primarily by the student, and its content draws from research this author conducted as a student.
- The student’s advisor(s) and others can be co-authors, but only one student per paper can be considered for the award, and that student must be the first author.
- The paper must be submitted by a student who is currently enrolled as a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral student, or within one year following the conferral of the student’s degree.
- The student will present the paper at WHC 2025.
Authors submitting a long or regular paper are asked to declare whether it meets these requirements.
Submission: The WHC’25 paper submission portal can be accessed at the following link:
https://new.precisionconference.com/whc
Important dates
- – 23:59 AOE on January 31, 2025: Regular and Long Paper Submission Deadline (Firm, No Extensions)
- – 23:59 AOE on March 21, 2025: Deadline for Reviews of Long and Regular Papers
- – 23:59 AOE on April 16, 2025: Regular and Long Paper Acceptance Notification
- – 23:59 AOE on May 16, 2025: Camera-ready Paper Submission Deadline
