Welcome to interactives Preprints

interactives is an open-access preprints platform for interactive research in HCI, games, creative computing, and new media. It helps authors write, compile, post, and update citable papers that can include videos, GIFs, playable demos, and other interactive materials.

Getting Started

Quick Start Guide - Create a draft, edit your paper, and submit it.
Example Papers - Explore sample projects and templates.
Submitting a Paper - Understand the preprint requirements and posting flow.
Policies - Review authorship, originality, licensing, and correction policies.

Preprint Model

All public papers on interactives are presented as preprints.

Page limit: None.
Posting flow: Metadata and content check before public posting.
Access: Openly readable on the web, with PDF access where available.
Updates: Authors can revise and improve the work over time.
Purpose: Rapid dissemination of interactive research while preserving a stable public record.

Platform Features

Markdown-based writing for clean, structured papers.
Interactive media support for videos, GIFs, live demos, and external project links.
Real-time collaboration for co-authors.
Integrated submission and revision from the same editor workspace.
Automatic PDF generation with print-friendly treatment of dynamic content.
Comments and engagement on public online versions.

Research Scope

We welcome research on interaction in any form, including:

Human-computer interaction.
Games and playful systems.
Interactive art and installations.
Creative computing and new media.
Sensors, wearables, and embodied systems.
Autonomous or machine-machine interaction.
Tools, workflows, and systems for interactive practice.

Submissions should make a clear research contribution and explain why the work matters beyond a simple project description.

Open Access And Ethics

Authors retain copyright and are responsible for originality, accurate attribution, participant ethics, privacy, and licensing. Public content is made available under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 unless otherwise stated.

Documentation