• Submission Deadline: 1st November 2025 
• Registration Opens: 12 January 2026 
• Notification of Acceptance: 12 January 2026 
• Camera-Ready papers Deadline: 2 February 2026 
• Conference: Thursday 23 April – Saturday 25 April 2026 

MOCO is an interdisciplinary community where artistic and technical contributions are synergistic and equally valued. Thus, we invite submissions that span academic approaches, applied practices, and fields of study, unified by the concepts of movement and computing. We encourage submitters to carefully articulate the relationship of their work to this lens through both scientific and artistic methods of inquiry.

In order to support our interdisciplinary community, MOCO is open to a wide range of formats for presenting work. In addition to papers for oral and poster presentations, we invite submission of practice works such as demos, performances, games, artistic works and movement workshops. We are open to novel formats, and we encourage submitters to be creative in proposals for practice sessions. We anticipate being able to provide limited support for student travel for accepted work across all categories. Finally, we encourage three types of submissions:

• Research papers
• Practice works
• Doctoral consortium

Submission site : https://moco-2026.sciencesconf.org

Topics include, but are not limited to: 

Topics of special relevance in 2026:  

• Rhythm, sound and synchronization
• Movement and computing for social and nervous disorders
• Tool for diagnosis
• Mobile Neuroscience
• Motion tracking
• AI and movement
• Art practice and health

We deliberately use a very open term – “practice work” – to encourage diverse ideas of what practice in movement and computing is – and could be – and how such practice can be presented. We suggest the following as examples of what a practice work might be, but also stress that the list is not exhaustive and other types of presentation can be considered, the only criteria being excellence of the work and appropriateness to the conference theme. Please note that MOCO has no financial means and limited practical means to present live work. Accepted Practice Works that require significant resources, time, and/or space will need to be presented in alternative formats, e.g. video, structured discussion, or at independent or remote venues that can be made accessible to MOCO attendees.

Suggested practice work formats:

For more information, please download the document: HERE

Specific event for MOCO26:

Performance promenade is a performance route lasting 5 to 10 minutes, taking place in transitional and unusual spaces. These performances will occur in hallways, closets, staircases, and other spaces to be imagined, within and around the Cité des Arts. Each performance will be presented multiple times throughout the two-hour event.

The Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for graduate students to present their work-in-progress on their advanced studies, especially their terminal degree, e.g., doctorate or MFA, to share and develop their research ideas in a supportive environment with participation from experts in the field. Students will have the opportunity to establish a community with other graduate students at a similar stage of their research.

We encourage students to submit a description of their doctoral work even if they are at an early stage. Videos and other supplementary materials are welcomed and encouraged. Students accepted to present their work at the Doctoral Consortium must plan to attend.

In the MOCO conference, we give you the option to publish your work through one on our two different submission tracks.  In the ‘ACM publication track’, we give you the option to publish your paper in the conference proceedings that will be indexed and published in the ACM digital library. Besides, it is also possible to only submit an extended abstract of your presentation for review. In this case, your extended abstract will not be published in the ACM conference proceedings. We call this the ‘Open publication track’. All abstracts (ACM and Open publication tracks) will be submitted on the French Open-Access platform HAL as a book of abstracts with a DOI (obtained as a Zenodo upload).

Research papers and practice works can be either submitted in the ACM submission track or in the Open submission track. Abstracts from doctoral consortium must be submitted only in the Open submission track.

Research papers will be presented in an oral or poster session, according to the wishes of the authors and the choice of the organizers. Practice works will be presented in dedicated sessions or in the performance promenade. Accepted students from the doctoral consortium will give an oral presentation in a dedicated session.

Submission site : https://moco-2026.sciencesconf.org

MOCO’26 uses one single template format for all submissions.  Submissions (.pdf format) must use the ACM Article Template (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Please use the template in traditional double-column format to prepare your submissions. For example, word users should use Word Interim Template, and LaTeX users should use sample-sigconf-authordraft template. Please remember to add Concepts and Keywords.

All submissions should be original and anonymized and will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process by members of the MOCO community.

Long research paper: Each long research paper should not be longer than 8 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references.

Short research paper: Each short research paper should not be longer than 4 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references.

Submissions in the Open publication track may be no longer than 2 pages. They can be abstracts (400 words minimum), or short papers including text, figures, and references.

The table below summarizes the different types of submission and possible tracks.

Research papers

Submissions of research papers must be as anonymous as possible, including references that may reveal the author(s):

• Author names and affiliations must not appear on any submission.
• Identifying information such as grant numbers must not be included.
• The text of the submission must refer to the authors’ own previous work in the third person.

Practice Works

The following options are available for submitting proposals for Practice Works:

1. The presentation of your work in the ACM publication track, or in the Open publication track, see above for details.
2. Supporting media (videos, pictures, audio) needed to explain the contribution of the work.
3. Detailed technical requirements and possible additional information. Accepted works will be required to fill out this information in a site-specific technical rider that will be emailed to authors following acceptance.

Doctoral consortium

Submissions consist of:

• An abstract describing the graduate work towards an advanced degree, in the format of the Open submission track (see above for details). Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference program. Optional: Supporting media (videos, pictures, audio) that help explain the contribution of the work.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizing committee at conference-moco2026@umontpellier.fr

Conference co-chairs:

Patrice Guyot and Gregoire Bosselut  (EuroMov DHM, France)

Scientific and artistic program

Heads: Stéphane Perrey (EuroMov DHM, France), Patrice Guyot (EuroMov DHM, France) and Leonardo Montecchia (compagnie La Mentira, France)

• Oussama Ben-Ammar (EuroMov DHM)
• Frédéric Bevilacqua (IRCAM-STMS, France)
• Cumhur Erkut (Aalborg University, Denmark)
• Kate Ladenheim (UCLA, USA)
• Jacky Montmain (EuroMov DHM, France)
• Pierre Slangen (EuroMov DHM, France)
• Kate Sicchio (VCU School of the Arts, USA)
• Andon Tchechmedjiev (EuroMov DHM, France)
• Kim Vincs (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
• Gualtiero Volpe (University of Genova, Italy

Finances

Head: Julie Boiché (EuroMov DHM, France)

• Kristin Carlson (Illinois State University, USA)

Logistics

Head: Grégoire Bosselut (EuroMov DHM, France)

Communication

Head: Gérard Dray (EuroMov DHM, France)

• Jules Françoise (CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, France)

Doctoral symposium

• Rémy Dadier (EuroMov DHM, France)
• Martin Le Guennec (EuroMov DHM, France)
• Nouha Taleb Salah (EuroMov DHM, France)
• Théo Velletaz (EuroMov DHM, France)