General Information
ECEM 2026 offers the possibility to submit abstracts for symposia, as well as for individual talks and posters. Please note that symposia and individual contributions have different submission deadlines. Please read carefully through these instructions to ensure that your contribution can be considered for ECEM 2026. Submissions have to be made through our ConfTool system.
All accepted and presented abstracts will be published in the Journal of Eye Movement Research.
Number of contributions per author
Kindly note that we will allow each conference participant to be first author on one talk only (including a talk in a symposium), but each participant can be a co-author on as many presentations as he/she wishes, and first author on an additional poster if he/she wishes. Talks and posters must be presented by the first author of the contribution.
Abstract requirements
Acceptable abstracts for talks and posters alike must contain information about the research question, the method, the results, and their interpretation. Acceptable abstracts should also have a clear topical connection to eye movements. Please do not submit an abstract of work that you are planning to do and have not actually started to work on. Such abstracts will not be accepted.
Types of Contributions
Symposia
Symposia can comprise either five or six talks.
Symposia should relate to the study of eye movements and eye tracking from a psychological, neurobiological, clinical, computational or applied perspective. Each symposium should provide a large view of one relevant topic and should provoke discussion, representing alternative theoretical views or alternative approaches rather than representing a single school.
A symposium submission consists of a 200 to 500 word proposal stating how the individual talks are related and clarifying the benefit of a joint presentation. Before submitting a symposium, the chairs should collect abstracts of up to 200 words for all the individual talks of their symposium. These individual abstracts must be submitted by symposium organizers together with the abstract for the whole symposium.
Symposia have to be submitted through the ConfTool system. Notification of symposium acceptance will be sent before the Deadline of the individual talk submission.
(In case a symposium is not accepted as a whole, individual contributions of rejected symposia may be submitted by their first authors as individual talks or posters before the general submission deadline.)
Talks
Talks should present high quality, original, empirical research either complete, or 'work in progress'. Any work related to the study of eye movements and eye tracking from a psychological, neurobiological, clinical, computational or applied perspective can be submitted as an oral presentation.
For talks, please submit a short 200 word abstract.
We cannot guarantee that we will respect the authors' preferences for oral or poster presentation. Depending on the number of submissions we receive, some presentations submitted as talks might have to be presented as posters. Authors will be informed in the acceptance mail if a submitted talk has to be presented as a poster instead.
Posters
Posters may present research in progress. Submission for posters will be 200 word abstracts.
When designing your poster, please bear in mind that your poster should be in DIN A0 portrait format (84.1 x 118.9 cm) or DIN A1 landscape format (84.1 x 59.4 cm). Material will be provided to hang the posters on the poster walls.