Academic Mindtrek 2025

We are very pleased to announce that the 28th International Academic Mindtrek conference will take place between the 7th and 10th of October 2025. We are hoping to host a hybrid event in Tampere, Finland—in person, and live-streamed online.

Academic Mindtrek 2025 welcomes full papers, workshops, demonstrations and poster presentations on a variety of topics relating to HCI as well as a Doctoral Consortium. Starting this year, we also welcome pictorials as an alternative to full paper submissions.

The International Academic Mindtrek has been a long-standing exciting meeting place where researchers, experts and thinkers present results from their latest works regarding the development of novel technology, media and digital culture for the society of tomorrow.

Mindtrek provides a unique platform where individuals from different fields, including companies, startups, academia, and government institutions, come together. This diversity fosters collaboration, enabling the transition of research findings into practical applications for the industry. Mindtrek thus presents an international stage for out-of-the-box research ideas, rooted in practitioners’ expertise.

Academic Mindtrek 2025 welcomes all scientific contributions that present relevant and actual studies of today that may shape the way we interact with the technologies of tomorrow, as well as direct perspectives and interrogations of futures. Our goal is to facilitate meaningful experiences and knowledge sharing on how technology merges into society and what opportunities and hidden threats it brings to it.

The conference is grounded in a strong collaboration between local organizers from Tampere University and international partners. This collaboration merges Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research and development in individual conference Tracks (previous years’ tracks can be seen in proceedings. Tracks for 2025 will be announced in early February).

In addition, the General track welcomes submissions that share methodological understanding and practices on how to design, develop, implement and evaluate interactive computing systems and services for human use. The submitted papers should focus on phenomena related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): human factors and requirements, usability and ergonomics, privacy, ethics and trustworthiness of technologies as well as the exploration of other factors involved (e.g., sociological and psychological factors).