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<span style="font-weight: 700;">IEEE CoG 2026 - Call for Special Sessions</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">2026 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 1st - 4th September 2026</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The annual IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) aims to be a leading venue for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and novel approaches to bring innovation in and through games. Games are a great domain to study and
develop novel ideas in design, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, psychology, education, sociology, and creativity, as well as their applications in real-world problems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">IEEE CoG 2026 will take place at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Special sessions</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> offer the opportunity to gather the games community around a particular topic, aiming to promote collaborations, discussions and exchanges between attendees. The topic of
the special session must be narrower than that of the conference tracks. Examples of previous CoG special sessions are Games for Health and Wellbeing, Human-AI Interaction through Play, AI Uses in Designing and Playing RTS and MOBA Games, Games for Sustainable
Development Goals, eSports Research and Matchmaking in Games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Special session organizers should do their best to publicize and attract high-quality papers to their sessions, as well as serving as track chairs for the special session. Their work will be coordinated with the program chairs
of the conference. Papers from special sessions will be peer-reviewed by a dedicated program committee proposed by the organiser. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Each special session proposal should include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Title </span>for the special session.</div>
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A <span style="font-weight: 700;">description </span>of the scope of the special session (no more than 500 words).</div>
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Name, affiliations and email of the <span style="font-weight: 700;">organizers</span>. There should be at least 2 organizers, and only the first 2 listed will be asked to serve as track chairs for the special session.</div>
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A list of <span style="font-weight: 700;">research groups or institutions</span> with interests within the scope of the session that will be contacted by the organisers to advertise the session.</div>
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A list of (at least) <span style="font-weight: 700;">10 </span>individuals who will serve as program committee for the special session to review the submissions. These individuals must have already accepted to be part of this PC by the time the proposal is
submitted, as they will be added to the reviewing system if the proposal is accepted. Include<span style="font-weight: 700;"> full name, affiliation and contact email address</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Submit your proposals via email to the conference program chairs: Nuria Medina Medina (<u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA64d07ba6-a3c7-5981-ba64-d857226df681" href="mailto:nmedina@ugr.es">nmedina@ugr.es</a></u>)
and Diego Perez Liebana (<u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAa8e932a3-f286-a264-b19b-8dc0078285fa" href="mailto:diego.perez@qmul.ac.uk">diego.perez@qmul.ac.uk</a></u>). Please, include in the subject of the email “CoG 2026 Special
Session Proposal”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Relevant dates for this call are as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Submission</span> of special session proposals: 9th January 2026.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Notification</span> of acceptance special sessions: 23rd January 2026.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Review timelines for the special session will match those of the full technical papers:</span></div>
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Submission of full technical papers: 17th March 2026.</div>
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Notification of acceptance of full technical papers: 1st May 2026.</div>
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Submission of the camera-ready version of full technical papers: 28th May 2026.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Special session papers are 8-page long, maximum, two-column format, including references and appendices. All paper submissions should follow the recommended IEEE conference author guidelines. MS Word and LaTeX templates can be
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">All deadlines are Anytime on Earth (AoE).</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">NONE OF THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES WILL BE EXTENDED.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We look forward to having you join us at CoG 2026 in Madrid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Best regards,</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Organizing Committee of IEEE CoG 2026</span></div>
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