Interactive Tools & Demos: Call for Submissions 

Please submit your application via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isls2025 by 17 January 2025, 23:59 AOE (click this link to view this time in your time zone).  

Organizers & Contact 

  • Dimitra Tsovaltzi, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Germany), [email protected]
  • Chirag Bhuvaneshwara, K8 Institute for strategic aesthetic (Germany)

Please contact Dimitra, Alwyn, Natalie, and Teemu for all questions regarding the interactive tools & demos workshops. 

Important dates 

  • January 17, 2025 – Applications due  
  • Mid-February 2025 – Notifications of acceptance and revisions  
  • Early March 2025 – Final submissions for publication due (camera ready)  
  • June 10, 2025 – Interactive Tools & Demos 
  • June 10–13, 2025 – ISLS Annual Meeting 2025 

Workshop Description & Objectives 

We cordially invite (learning) scientists to come and showcase your cool tools! Interactive Tools and Demos are intended to enable participants to get to know new interactive devices and environments that may be potentially interesting for teaching and learning, to explore designs related to learning and teaching activities, or to try out and compare methods for research and practice. Demos in the intersection of other research areas are very welcome. Presenters will have a time slot of 20-30 minutes, during which they are free to organize their demonstration in any way they choose (e.g., a demo of a tool, a combination of a demo and discussion of related research projects, etc.). Unique and creative, but feasible, demo forms are welcome. Proposals are NOT required to specify whether the scope for their submission is CSCL or ICLS, as they will both take place together at the Annual Meeting. Submissions may indicate coherence with the conference call for innovative technologies and learning environments. See the conference theme page for a description. 

In the Interactive Tools and Demos Session, researchers of accepted proposals may showcase their interactive tools, get feedback, and find collaborators with whom to develop projects, or future papers and symposia. In the proposals, we welcome suggestions of possible applications for learning and teaching of your submitted tools or demo.  

Submission Instructions 

The proposal should be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isls2025 by 17 January 2025, 23:59 AOE. 

Please submit a description of your proposed demo session as a short paper (4 pages, not including references, i.e., proposals can have up to one page for the references). It should follow the current version of the ISLS Author Guidelines and use the ISLS Template. 

The paper should be written with the reader of the conference proceedings in mind who may be reading the description after the event has taken place. The structure of the 4 pages is flexible, but it should specify how the technology can contribute to a specified instructional design, or how it can support research in the learning sciences. Please include a description of your technological setup and possible interactive elements in case of a virtual session.