Call for Posters

The submission deadline for First Round is March 20, 2026.

COMPASS draws from a wide array of disciplines: computer and information sciences, social sciences, critical geography, environmental studies, economics, climate studies, and engineering. We aim to foster a discussion that interrogates not only the potentials but also the limitations of technology-led interventions in sustainability. This includes research that explores power dynamics, inequality, and extraction, and how technology might reinforce or disrupt existing systems.

COMPASS explicitly promotes multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research and practice that address key challenges for sustainable societies, including, but not limited to, equity, health, education, poverty, accessibility, conservation, climate change, energy, infrastructure and economic growth. We also welcome research on the ethics of technology, especially from a critical perspective that explores limitations and concerns with technology-led solutions for sustainable societies. COMPASS also has a particular commitment to approaches and research that address the challenges faced by under-represented and marginalized communities.

Posters are invited on topics of interest to the COMPASS community, focusing on applications of computing for sustainability or social development. We also invite submissions that speak to that theme and/or contribute to one or more of the following areas:

  • Systems and IoT for Sustainable Societies
  • HCI, Design and Critical Perspectives
  • AI, ML and Data Science for Sustainable Societies
  • Development, Economics and Policy
  • Environment, Sustainability, Degrowth, and Climate Change
  • Technology, Media, and Social Practice
  • Energy, Infrastructure and Economic Changes in age of AI

Authors must therefore expand or otherwise significantly modify versions of these works as papers to COMPASS or any other venue. 

Important Dates for Authors

  • This year, COMPASS is accepting poster submissions in multiple rounds.
    • First Round
      • Submission Site Open: February 10, 2026
      • Submission Deadline: March 20, 2026
      • Notification to the Authors: April 17, 2026
      • Camera-Ready Completion Deadline: May 1, 2026
    • Second Round
      • Submission deadline: May 15, 2026
      • Notification to the authors: June 12, 2026
      • Camera-Ready Completion Deadline: June 26, 2026
    • COMPASS 2026 Conference: July 27-31, 2026
  • Deadlines are anywhere on earth (AoE) time.

Submission Guidelines 

  • Template:
  • Submission length: Between 2000 and 4000 words excluding references. Typically, up to 6 pages long (excluding references).
  • Submissions must be anonymous and should not include any author names, affiliations, and contact information.

Accessibility

We ask that authors create accessible submissions when submitting their PDF. Please follow the guidance in the SIGCHI Accessibility Guide for Authors, particularly Section 1: Authoring an Accessible Document, and Section 2: Submitting Accessible Documents for Review. https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/accessibility/ 

Authorship and AI

We will be following the ACM Policy on Authorship, which states that Authors must be the “creator or originator of an idea” and/or Work; Authors must make a substantial contribution to the Work; and Authors must be accountable for the work that was done and its presentation in a publication. Generative AI tools may not be listed as authors, and their use must be fully disclosed in the work according to the policy. Papers found in violation of this policy may be rejected. 

Review Process

The COMPASS organizing team is committed to providing supportive and high-quality reviews to all submissions, regardless of research method or topic. Submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. Reviewers will focus on the contribution and originality of your work. Given the scope of the poster, provide a brief background and focus on the contribution of your work.

Some of the guiding questions to assist with drafting your poster submission include:

  • What is the problem?
  • What is the motivation for your work?
  • Why is this work important to COMPASS?
  • What is the contribution you are making?

Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of COMPASS 2026 and will become available in the ACM Digital Library.

Upon Acceptance of Your Poster

Authors will be notified of conditional acceptance or rejection of their submission on or before the notification date listed above. Meta reviews will describe any further changes that the authors are expected to make to the paper prior to its publication. These should be made as part of a “camera ready submission” and submitted to the papers submission site by the deadline listed above. Final changes will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee prior to final acceptance of the paper. If authors are unable to meet the requirements for changes, the program chairs will be notified and may reject the paper.

All accepted submissions require a signed form assigning an exclusive publication license to the ACM (which will not require a publication fee), or an upfront fee to ACM to enable Open Access.

Additionally, each accepted submission requires payment of the conference registration fee by one of the paper’s authors. If no author from the paper registers, the paper may not be published in the ACM Digital Library.

All published papers will appear online in the ACM Digital Library and be distributed digitally to conference delegates as part of the conference proceedings.

At the conference, authors of accepted submissions must present their work and be available to answer questions from other conference participants. Presenters of papers will have a virtual presentation slot at the conference of approximately 5 minutes, plus 3 minutes of Q&A, though this may be adjusted prior to the conference based on scheduling needs. Information on presentations will be sent by email to the corresponding author. Papers whose authors do not present in any form may be removed from the ACM Digital Library and the conference proceedings.

Accepted authors should ensure they have obtained permissions to use licensed content and images that depict identifiable people in their conference contributions (paper, videos, and presentations). 

Questions?

Please direct any questions to the Poster chairs at posterchair2026@compass.acm.org

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.  ACM has been involved with ORCID from the start, and we have recently committed to collecting ORCID IDs from all our published authors.  We are committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

Some text in this guidance is adapted from prior ACM COMPASS, ACM CHI, ACM FAccT, and ACM DIS conferences.