With the interactives online editor, the writing and submission process is designed to be fast. Please check the requirements below before submitting.

Submission Requirements

• The submission must be related to interactivity and have a clear research focus.
• The paper must be submitted through the online editor.
• The submitting author must be the primary contributor or an authorized corresponding author.
• The paper must include complete metadata: title, abstract, tags, authors, emails, and affiliations.
• Any reused code, media, datasets, libraries, or assets must be cited and licensed appropriately.

What We Mean By Interactivity

interactives accepts research centered on interaction. This includes HCI, games, sensors, AI systems, interaction design, interactive art, creative computing, and new media. We welcome project-based and practice-based work when it makes a clear research contribution.

Interactive work may include emergent behavior, public participation, playable systems, visual simulations, live links, or other dynamic elements. Authors should explain the research insight behind the work and provide enough context for readers to understand and inspect it.

Scholarly Contribution

We do not use page count as the main measure of contribution. A strong preprint should clearly state:

• What problem, question, or phenomenon it addresses.
• What is new about the system, method, design, or study.
• What evidence, demonstration, or reflection supports the contribution.
• How readers can access relevant media, demos, code, or supplementary materials.

Policies

• Disclosure: Authors must disclose conflicts of interest related to the work.
• Acknowledgments: Funding, sponsorship, and material support should be acknowledged.
• Ethics: Work involving participants, sensitive data, or user studies must state the relevant approval, consent, or safeguards.
• Originality: Text, code, media, datasets, and interactive components must be original or clearly attributed.
• Updates: Authors should correct known errors and keep important project links usable where possible.

Submission Process

1. Edit: Create a draft project from the submission page and write your manuscript in the online editor.
2. Check: Use the preview and submission dialog to validate metadata and formatting.
3. Submit: Submit the draft for a metadata and content check.
4. Post: If the submission passes the check, it is posted publicly as a preprint.
5. Update: Revise the preprint when the project changes or when corrections are needed.

Posting Timeline

Preprint submissions are typically checked and posted within one day when the metadata is complete and the content is suitable for the platform.

Confidential Requests

For withdrawal requests, misconduct reports, author-name changes, or other sensitive matters, contact team@interactives.pub. If an author name is updated after posting, the DOI or public paper URL may remain unchanged while the visible paper record is corrected.