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You can register to attend MOCO’26 : REGISTER HERE
We are thrilled to announce that MOCO’26, the 10th International Conference on Movement and Computing, will be held at Cité des Arts (Montpellier’s conservatory), in Montpellier, France, from Thursday 23th to Saturday 25th of April 2026.
MOCO’26 is organised by EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, a joint research unit between the University of Montpellier and IMT Mines Ales, based on three areas of expertise: Human Movement Sciences, Digital Sciences and Health Sciences.
In addition to previous topics of MOCO (Movement + Computing), this edition will provide a special focus on health applications. The MOCO’26 local organizing committee includes Patrice Guyot and Grégoire Bosselut (Conference co-Chairs), Stéphane Perrey, Gérard Dray and Leonardo Montecchia (Program Chair) and Julie Boiché (partnerships and subscription).
Program
MOCO’26 In the pink of Health – Download the updated program (2026/04/19)
Detailed conference program
MOCO’26 In the pink of Health: Conference programme
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Conference Day 1 – Thursday 23 April Location: Cité des Arts |
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8.00 – 8.30 |
Conference registration Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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8.30 – 9.00 |
Welcome to MOCO’26 Patrice Guyot – Grégoire Bosselut – Director CDA Auditorium – Edgard VARESE |
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9.00 – 10:30 |
Doctoral Consortium: MOCO Emerging Scholars Auditorium – Edgard VARESE Chairs: Théo Velletaz, Martin Leguennec 3 min + 4 min Q&A · Brenda San Germán Bravo. Body-Informed Effects for Supporting Emotional Self-Regulation in a Mixed Reality space · Théo Dupuy, Victor Lopes de Souza. Cautious predictions to support decision makers in movement-related areas. · Léo Chédin. Exploring Choreographic Processes Involving AI. · Atilla Juliana Vrasdonk et al. Kinetic Energy and Flow in Co-Improvising Flamenco Dyads. · Romaric Sichler. Learning to Teach Gestures: Adaptive Feedback for Human–Machine Co-Learning in craft. · Léo Mercier et al. Movement Sonification Integrated to Rehabilitation-Readaptation. · Roos Van Berkel. Moving with Care: The Agency of Digital Movement in Socio-Material Practices. · Botao ‘Amber’ Hu. On Improvisation and Open-Endedness: Insights for Experiential AI. · Hadil Abba et al. The Sense of Touch in Healthcare HAPTIMED: A Digital Twin of Haptic Perception for Educational Purposes.
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee Break Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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11.00 – 12.30 |
Paper Session #1 – Embodied Interaction, Movement & Perception Auditorium – Edgard VARESE Chair: TBA 12 min + 3 min Q&A · Lottridge et al. Moving Contexts: How Culture, Context, and Movement Histories Shape Whole-Body Interaction in Aesthetic Environments · Preisler et al. When Bodies Resonate in Sound: Sonifying Interpersonal Movement Dynamics in Dance · Weber et al. Dynamic Abstract Avatars Impact Dancers’ Sense of Embodiment and Movement Choices · Mardamootoo. Moving Through Volume · De Blanc et al. Weight-sharing trust and wooden floors: Identifying moderating factors in physically integrated dance
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12.30 – 14.00 |
Lunch Break Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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13.45 – 15.30 |
Paper Session #2 – Dance, Choreography & Creative Practice with Technology Auditorium – Edgard VARESE Chair: TBA 12 min + 3 min Q&A · Rajko et al. Choreographic and Improvisational Approaches To Interrogating Robotic Systems · Correia et al. Fantasies, Obscurities and (Dis)Connections: Three Case Studies of Dance Artists’ Creative, Embodied and Political Engagement with AI · Hou. Playing the Museum: The Body as Interface with Central African Traditions · Stergiou et al. Digital Queens: A case study on cloth simulation, motion capture and XR technologies for addressing costume-choreography challenges · Baltas. Extending the Site: XR modalities for Site-Specific Dance – A Comparative Study of XR Technologies in Studio-Based Practice · Sicchio. p5score: A Computational Framework for Choreographic Notation and Real-Time Movement Composition · Guevara and Koch. Reflections: Health, Technology, and the CCL Experience
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15.30 – 16.00 |
Coffee Break Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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16.00 – 18.00 |
Practice Works and Posters
Practice Works #1– Chair: Julien Laroche · 16:00/17:00 – START: Science, arT, reseARch and Transgression Montecchia L., Le Clezio E., Felvia J. – Round table + guided performance – Room PETER BROOK · 16:00/16:30 – PosePilot-GOM: A Web-based application for dexterity analysis of human movement – Hergal Y., Makrygiannis D., Senteri G., Glushkova A., Manitsaris S. – DEMO – Movement analysis – Room BELA BARTOK · 16:30/17:00 – A pen “IMU inside” : a Sensor-Enhanced Pen for Exploring Sound While Writing 2 – Phelippeau A., Chaffangeon Caillet A., Husson A., Chevrier J. – DEMO – Sonification of movement – Room CLAUDE BALLIF · 17:00/17:30 – PosePilot-Ergo: A web-based application for ergonomic analysis and human motion quantification – Glushkova A., Makrygiannis D., Abd El Sater T., Bou Nassif R., Atallah T., Chedid F., Faddoul M., Kazzi M. – DEMO – Movement analysis – Room BELA BARTOK · 17:30/18:00 – Drifting Bodies Through Algorithms – Van Berkel R., Modugno R., Menendez-Blanco M., Uğur Yavuz S. – Guided choreography – Room ARNAUT DE MAREUIL · 17:30/18:00 – PyEyesWeb: An open source toolkit for multimodal movement feature extraction – Sabharwal Sanket R, Corbellini N, Ghisio S, Coletta P, Romano G, Al Foysal A, Volpe G, Camurri A. -DEMO – Movement analysis – Room CLAUDE BALLIF
Poster #1 – Chair: Stéphane Perrey Main Hall – Juliette GRECO · Gasparotti et al. Effects of cognitive-motor training in virtual reality on anticipatory brain functions and balance of professional dancers · Rokeby et al. Enriching the Kinematic: Approaching New Methods for Machine Learning with Bodies That Move at the Edge · Zhu. How AI Leads in Creative Practice: From Mentorship Dialogues to Extended Narratives · Whatley et al. Dance, disability and robots: interdisciplinary possibilities for reframing ‘healthy bodies’ in performance · Chiu. Embodied Ethics in Digital Futures: Choreoethics and Motion Capture in Digital Dancescapes · Ayache et al. The Choreography of Thought: How Interpersonal Coordination Reveals Shared Cognition · Sutton-Chanari et al. On the fractal complexity of sacrum motion during walking · Zhang. Reframing Human–Machine Movement through Laban Spatial Logic: Toward a Temporal and Embodied Framework of Relational Vitality · Daveau et al. Embodied Gestures: recognizing static hand movements with lightweight neural models · Taleb-Salah et al. Motion Capture for Ergonomic Assessment: Inertial vs. Computer Vision Based on YOLOv11 · Pyaraka et al. Humanoid Robot Navigation in Shared Care Spaces: A Human-Aware Navigation Framework and Implementation Humanoid Robot Navigation in Shared Care Spaces: A Human-Aware Navigation Framework and Implementation · Chafik et al. IMU-Based Detection of Load Carriage for Ergonomic Risk Assessment · Lahya et al. Deep Learning for Physical Load Estimation: Insights from ViLoad Video Dataset · Di Donato et al. British Sign Language in Embodied Music Interaction: An exploratory study of British Sign Language music interpretation
Demonstration of the new Xsens Link with Unity integration – TRINOMA Booth Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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19.00 Evening |
Gala Gazette Café 6 rue Levat 34000 Montpellier Located in the heart of the new Saint Roch neighborhood, across from the SNCF train station, 500 meters from Place de la Comédie. |
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Conference Day 2 – Friday 24 April Location: Cité des Arts |
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8.30 – 9.00 |
Conference registration Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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9.00 – 12.00 |
Practice Works and Posters
Practice Works – Chair: Patrice Guyot · 9:00/11:00 – Supra-Organism: Biophysical Sensing toward Affective Somatic Integration – Coleman G, Hosale M-D, Macy A – Collective movement installation – Room MARIA CASARES · 9:00/11:00 – Creative Movement Hacking: Can We Combine Ideokinesis and Immersive Technologies to Enhance Embodiment? – Gasparotti C. – VR – Room ARNAUT DE MAREUIL · 9:00/10:30 – Holding Time Main-Tenant as a Practice of Palliative Health – Bachrach A, Melkumova-Reynolds J. – Movement improvisation – Room BELA BARTOK · 11:00/12h – Creativity Tools for Movement-based Artistic Practices in Extended Reality: Performances based in Fantasticos – Ardaiz O. – VR – Room PETER BROOK · 11:30/12:00 – The Emergence of a Dance: A Sensitive Experience of Movement – Piqué M. – Choreographic breathing – Room ARNAUT DE MAREUIL · 11:00/11:45 – The Z of Touch: Crystallizing the Interoceptive Axis of Blended Touch – Maggie B, Sicchio K. – One-on-one massage session + sonification – Room CLAUDE BALLIF
Poster #2 (10:00 – 12:00) – Chair: Stéphane Perrey Main Hall – Juliette GRECO · Kobayashi et al. GenreMix Analyzer: Visualizing Probabilistic Composition of Dance Styles for Supporting Dance Learning · Skjeldal et al. Studying Embodied Expression in Drumming for Virtual Systems · McKendrick et al. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Guiding Acting Practice through Negative Robot Behaviour and Contextual Intentions · Grebel et al. Battles as Interactive Ecologies: Designing with Embodied Roles in Hip-Hop Performance · Glover et al. Sample entropy analysis of variability in sit-to-stand-to-sit movements of people with or without chronic pain · Faux et al. Dynamical 2D-DFA for movement analysis in obstetrics · Kolokotroni et al. Illuminating Emotions: Evaluating the Emotional Impact of Lighting on Animated Characters in Animation and Video Games through Motion Capture · Neville. Agiles: Creativity and Mobility through embodied participation in Immersive Environments · Vincs et al. Virtual Volumetric Bodies Interacting with Squishy Balls and Shiny Fish: Towards a more inclusive XR interaction system · D’adamo et al. SoniFootsteps: Movement-Triggered Footstep Sounds to Modulate Body-Weight Perception, Gait and Emotion · Soga and Sra. VR Dance Puppet: Movement Creation by Controlling Partial Body Parts Using a VR Device · Stein et al. Tapxophone: Towards Engaging Finger Rehabilitation using Computer Vision and Music · Hollerweger et al. Streaming Open Sound Control data from a commercially available IMU suit in real time for performative sonic arts projects · Gong et al. DVF-Generator: A Physics-Aware Conditional Generative Model for Respiratory Motion Synthesis in Liver SPECT · Kantan. Beyond Deterministic Mappings: Audiovisual Correspondence in Movement-Controlled Generative Music
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12.15 – 13.15 |
Lunch Break Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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13.15 – 15.30 |
Paper Session #3 – Machine Learning, AI & Generative Systems for Movement Auditorium – Edgard VARESE Chair: Gérard Dray 12 min + 3 min Q&A · Lawrence et al. Interactive Machine Learning can recognise complex movements, but does it make us happy? · Theodoridis et al. Musicians’ Movement Repertoires and Emergent Coordination: Scapular Kinematics, EMG, and Struggle in Higher Music Education · Yang et al. Designing Generative AI for Real-Time Multi-User Interaction in Co-Creative Dance · Faurent et al. Learning Human Rhythmic Movements: Adaptive CPGs for Synchronized Virtual Agents · Akbas et al. Cross-Modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Craft Gestures Learning: Enabling Dialogue with Multimodal Pedagogical Contents · Trolland et al. Exploring Movement-Led Co-Design for Interactive Lighting in Performance · Beller. Exploring “Synekinian Pairs”: Manual-Vocal Gesture Integration in Experimental Contexts
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15.15 – 16.30 |
Keynote #1 A. Refsum Jensenius / L. Bishop Auditorium – Edgard VARESE Chair: J. Laroche 50 min + 20 min – Bodies in motion in the concert hall and beyond
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16.30 – 17.00 |
Coffee Break Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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17.30 – 19.00 |
Performance Promenade · ZAGHAREED: A Human and AI Co-Created Film Extending a Dance – Zhu H. – Film – Room CAFETERIA · The origins of intelligence: A performative statement on the primacy of movement – Marin D. – Dance performance – Room ARNAUT DE MAREUIL · Real-Time Full-Body Multi-Player Interaction with AI Dance Models – Yang M, Weber R, Lottridge D. – Demo. – Room PETER BROOK · “SensualMap 2.0 Meets The Source” – Tadayoni A. – Sonification. – Room CLAUDE BALLIF · The Emergence of a Dance – Piqué M. – Choreographic Promenade – Multiple places · The Body Knows the Pattern – O’Donnell E. – Performance – Room MARIA CASARES · The mv lab spatial trainer MR demo – Sieczkowski R, Oyallon-Koloski J. – VR. – Room BELA BARTOK · Sonification of dance during the performance promenade – Guyot P, Mondoloni A. – Performance + sonification – Hall, lobby, stairs · Vector:Interact – A Participatory Installation for Creative – Improvisation – Lottridge D. – Immersive installation – Room PETER BROOK · Sound Walk – Students from the Cité des Arts – Sound performances – Multiple Places
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19.00+ |
Dinner on your own |
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20.30
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Conference Day 3 – Saturday 25 April Location: Cité des Arts |
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8.30 – 9.00 |
Conference registration Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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9.00 – 10.30 |
Paper Session #4 – XR, Virtual Environments & Multimodal Interaction Systems Auditorium – Edgard VARESE Chair: TBA 12 min + 3 min Q&A ● Gaugne et al. Blow based collaboration in a digital art virtual environment ● Saint-Cast et al. A Full-Stack Web-Based Ecosystem for Movement–Sound Interactions ● McKendrick. Mask Work and Performance Techniques for VR Embodiment ● Guo et al. Liquid Connections: Reimagining Social Touch in Virtual Reality ● Brendel et al. Low-Latency Real-Time Volumetric Reconstruction for Interactive and Dynamic Stage Productions ● Odonnell et al. Gesture Mapping for Embodied Rhythmic Expression: A Case Study on Expressive Affordances
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee Break Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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11.00 – 12:10 |
Keynote #2 Auditorium – Edgard VARESE V. Cochen De Cock / B. Bardy Chair: J. Laroche 50 min + 20 min – Beyond Fixed Beats: Adaptive Musical Entrainment for Movement, Health and Wellness
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12.15 – 13.40 |
Lunch Main Hall – Juliette GRECO |
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13.45 – 15.00 |
Paper Session #5 – Human–Robot Interaction & Bio-Inspired Systems Auditorium – Edgard VARESE Chair: TBA 12 min + 3 min Q&A · Ouhssain et al. Reinforcement Learning with Musculoskeletal Models to Study Fatigue Effects on Human Muscle Synergies · Alcubilla et al. Designing Relational Care: Speculative and Participatory Approaches to Movement-Based Human-Robot Interaction through the Performing Arts · Hu et al. “We Move Like an Octopus”: Exploring Decentralized Tentacular Coordination via Inter-Bodily Electromyostimulation Relays X · Neuhauser et al. Estimating Piano Piece Difficulty via Embodied Robotic Hand Performance Analysis
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15.00 – 16.30 |
Practice Works and Posters
Practice Works – Chair: Leonardo Montecchia · 15:00/15:30 – Interactive Dance Performance as a Dialogue: Choreographing through Sound and Grief – Berthoud S, Tanaka A – Performance dance + sonification – Room MARIA CASARES · 15:30/16:30 – Gone Fabulous VR: Virtual Reality Installation through Choreographic Process – Burns T. – VR – Room ARNAUT DE MAREUIL
Poster #3 – Chair: Stéphane Perrey Main Hall – Juliette GRECO · Tadayoni et al. SensualMap 2.0 Meets The Source · Marin-Bucio. Machinic Movement Matrix: A framework and tool for human-AI dance creation · Ardaiz et al. Teams of Sport Science and Computer Engineering Students Learning Together · Bosselut et al. Exploring multimodal neurophysiological synchrony and behaviour in choir performance: a preliminary study. · Siman. The Recorded Performance as Virtual Event: Archival Vitality in Preljocaj’s Swan Lake · San German Bravo et al. Laban Inspired Visual Effects Influence Perception and Movement · Laroche et al. Multi-agent Coordination in Shared Hybrid Spaces – How Digital Environments and Adaptive Agents Shape Collective Embodied Timing · Akbas et al. Reflective Embodiment through Avatar Abstraction: Insights from Movement Practitioners · Corbellini et al. Slow Mood, Aesthetic Resonance, and Embodied Interaction: Design Principles for Art-Aided Rehabilitation
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16.30 – 17.30 |
Paper Session #6 – Movement Analysis, Motion Capture & Computational Modeling Auditorium – Edgard VARESE Chair: TBA 12 min + 3 min Q&A · Pilkov et al. Estimating Pianists’ Hand and Finger Kinematics with Markerless Motion Capture · Pataranutaporn et al. Phylogenetic Tree of Dance: Computational Reconstruction of Movement Lineages Through Motion Capture Analysis · Serdar et al. Mixed Method Audio-Video Analyses of Felt Togetherness in a Networked Music-Dance Performance
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17.30 – 18.00 |
Ending Remarks – Closing MOCO 10th Auditorium – Edgard VARESE
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18.00 – 21.00 |
Jam session
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On the conference theme: In the pink of Health
In the fields of neurocomputational and movement-based research, the concept of health is increasingly operationalized through data, including neural patterns, kinematic signatures, and recovery curves. Wearables and motion-tracking systems hold great promise in providing insights into physical and cognitive health. However, it should be noted that such systems also impose thresholds of inclusion, determining which bodies are measurable and whose movements are deemed expressive, curative, or valid. As neuroscience meets computer science and the arts, it is essential to question the role of these tools in shaping our understanding of what constitutes a healthy body or mind.
Considering this, a reframing of health as emergent, relational and performative is required, drawing upon critical post-humanist theory, embodied cognition, and artistic research. Applications in dance, interactive installations, and neuroaesthetic interfaces can model alternative health paradigms. By rethinking movement not merely as data but as a lived and expressive phenomenon, new interdisciplinary possibilities for designing systems that reflect diverse and situated ways of being in The Pink of Health can be opened.
This MOCO’26 conference proposes to critically examine how health, as both concept and computational output, participates in technocultural narratives that risk reinforcing normative, performance-driven ideals. Movement technologies, especially in arts-based applications, have the potential to open space for alternative modes of vitality or discomfort that challenge prevailing definitions of health. We invite you to share your reflections on how your research reimagines health in movement and data/computer science, or artistic practice, not as fixed optimisation, but as fluid, plural and performative.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline (extended): November 10, 2025
- Registration Opens: November 6, 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: January 12, 2026
- Camera-Ready papers Deadline:
- ACM (Metadata): March 11, 2026
- OPEN (Final version): March 18, 2026
- Conference: Thursday 23 April – Saturday 25 April 2026
Submissions
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. Finally, we encourage three types of submissions:
- Research papers
- Practice works
- Doctoral consortium
Submission site : https://moco-2026.sciencesconf.org
Registration
Registration is now open!
You can now register to attend MOCO’26 : REGISTER HERE
| Registration fees | tax-free | with VAT | |
| Regular conference registration | |||
| Early bird (before march 13th 2026) | 300 € | 330 € | |
| Regular (after march 13th 2026) | 350 € | 385 € | |
| Euromov University Staff / MOCO Steering Committee members | |||
| Early bird (before march 13th 2026) | 200 € | 220 € | |
| Regular (after march 13th 2026) | 220 € | 242 € | |
| PhD researchers / students | |||
| Early bird (before march 13th 2026) | 130 € | 143 € | |
| Regular (after march 13th 2026) | 150 € | 165 € | |
| Artist voucher (see below) * | free | free | |
Practice Works
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.
Research papers
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
Doctoral Consortium
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.
Submission procedure
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).
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Important note to authors about ACM’s new open access publishing model (updated on February 2, 2026). ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a full geographic waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance. Further information may be found on the ACM website, as follows: Full details of the new ICPS publishing model: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info@acm.org. |
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 on site in an oral or poster session, according to the wishes of the authors and the choice of the organizers. Practice works will be presented on site 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
Author Guidelines
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:
- The presentation of your work in the ACM publication track, or in the Open publication track, see above for details.
- Supporting media (videos, pictures, audio) needed to explain the contribution of the work.
- 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.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact the organizing committee at conference-moco2026@umontpellier.fr
Conference Committees
Conference co-chairs:
Patrice Guyot and Gregoire Bosselut (EuroMov DHM, France)
Head of Keynotes:
Julien Laroche (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
- Julien Laroche (EuroMov DHM, France)
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)
MOCO'26 Conference Location
Join us at the Cité des Arts, Montpellier’s renowned conservatory, for an immersive experience that combines the elegance of art with cutting-edge scientific discourse. MOCO’26 promises to be a landmark event, offering insights into the latest advancements in movement and computing, with a special emphasis on health applications.
City of Montpellier
Located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Cévennes mountains, Montpellier is a vibrant and forward-looking city in southern France. Blending centuries of history with cutting-edge architecture, it offers a unique atmosphere where medieval alleys meet contemporary urban design. With one of the world’s oldest universities and a student population that brings constant energy, Montpellier thrives as a center of learning and innovation. Its commitment to sustainability, dynamic cultural life, and welcoming environment make it an ideal destination for international conferences.
