Cardiff, UK, June 29th - July 3rd, 2026
QoMEX has a long tradition of hosting successful Special Sessions that highlight new or emerging research areas. For the upcoming edition, we are seeking innovative, high-quality, and potentially interdisciplinary Special Session proposals that complement the regular conference program. Special Sessions should focus on specific, well-defined topics that extend beyond those covered by the main conference themes within the broader domains of Quality of Experience (QoE) and User Experience (UX). Before preparing your submission, please read the guidelines below carefully.
Note that the special session organization differs from previous events: At most two special sessions will be accepted from the open call. An accepted special session will definitely be part of the QoMEX’26 program of at least 90 minutes, depending on the number of accepted papers for that special session. The people who are organizing the special session may include invited papers if they want to.
Please submit your Special Session proposal by filling out the template available here to the Special Session Co-Chairs at: tobias.hossfeld@uni-wuerzburg.de and federica.battisti@unipd.it.
Each proposal must include:
A maximum of two Special Session proposals will be selected. Evaluation will be based on:
Special Sessions should ideally focus on emerging topics in multimedia quality, QoE, and user experience that are not fully addressed in the main Call for Papers.
Upon acceptance, the Special Session will be immediately announced to allow authors to submit their contributions. Organizers of accepted sessions will serve as meta-reviewers, which includes recruiting reviewers, coordinating, and summarizing reviews.
All Special Session papers will undergo the same rigorous review process as regular submissions and must meet equivalent quality standards. Acceptance of a Special Session proposal ensures its inclusion in the conference program.
Additionally, organizers of selected Special Sessions will have the opportunity to propose a Special Issue in an appropriate journal like the Quality and User Experience (Springer) or Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier).
