About interactives Preprints

interactives is an open-access preprints platform for research on interactive systems, games, HCI, and new media. It is built for work that benefits from being experienced directly: playable demos, videos, animated figures, simulations, creative systems, and living project documentation.

All public papers on the site are presented as preprints. A preprint is a citable, openly accessible research record that can be shared quickly and updated as the work evolves.

Why Preprints

Interactive research often moves faster than conventional publication timelines. A project may need public testing, feedback, or documentation while its system is still changing. interactives gives authors a place to publish that work early, with enough structure to make it useful to readers and discoverable by search engines.

Preprints on interactives can include embedded media, interactive links, source references, and downloadable PDFs. Readers can inspect the paper, follow links to live work, and leave comments on the online version.

Editorial Platform

The platform includes a web-based Markdown editor designed for interactive scholarly work:

• Interactive content embedding: Authors can include videos, GIFs, playable demos, and external interactive systems.
• Automatic PDF generation: Dynamic media is converted into print-friendly references such as QR codes where needed.
• Integrated submission workflow: Authors can draft, compile, submit, revise, and update a preprint from the same workspace.
• Structured metadata: Each submission includes title, author, affiliation, abstract, tags, and DOI-related metadata where applicable.

Scope

interactives welcomes research on interaction in any form, including human-machine, human-human, and machine-machine systems. Topics may include novel user interfaces, games, playable systems, interactive installations, creative computing, autonomous interaction, design tools, media systems, and experimental research formats.

Submissions should make a clear research contribution. We are interested in work that advances understanding of interactive phenomena, introduces new techniques, documents meaningful systems, or opens a project for public inspection and further development.

Posting Process

After submission, the platform performs metadata and content checks before a preprint is posted publicly. The goal is rapid access, not a long review track. Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, licensing, and ethical status of the work they submit.

Ethics And Licensing

Authors must submit original work or clearly identify reused material. All third-party code, media, datasets, libraries, and assets must be cited and used under compatible licenses.

If a submission involves participants, sensitive data, or user studies, authors must state the relevant approval, consent, or ethical safeguards in the paper.

Public content is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license unless otherwise stated.

Updates And Corrections

Preprints are living records. Authors may update a paper when the project changes, when interactive materials move, or when errors are discovered. Significant corrections should be documented clearly in the paper so readers understand what changed.

For sensitive matters such as misconduct reports, withdrawal requests, or author-name changes, contact team@interactives.pub.