[CFP Deadline Extension] BEACON 2026 Workshop @ ICMI – Grounding Abstract Concepts in Multimodal Interaction (Deadline: July 17, 2026)

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Jun 28, 2026, 9:31:38 PM (5 hours ago) Jun 28

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Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the BEACON 2026 Workshop — Beyond the Concrete: Grounding Abstract Concepts in Multimodal Interaction, co-located with ACM ICMI 2026, has been extended to July 17, 2026.

BEACON 2026 brings together researchers working on multimodal representation learning, embodied and developmental models, robotics, cognitive science, and hybrid cognitive architectures. The workshop aims to consolidate computational approaches, datasets, and evaluation methodologies for abstract concept grounding while identifying shared assumptions and open research challenges.

A keynote talk will be given by Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Professor of the Psychology of Language at University College London.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Grounding abstract concepts in multimodal interaction
Hierarchical and developmental models of abstraction
Cross-modal abstraction and alignment
Embodied and interactive concept learning
Multimodal action and goal representations
Affective and contextual abstraction
Embodied and interactive learning of abstract language
Hybrid cognitive architectures for abstract grounding
Evaluation methodologies for abstract concept grounding
Multimodal datasets and benchmarks for abstract concepts
Applications of abstract grounding in HCI and HRI

Submission Formats

Short papers: 4 pages
Full papers: 8 pages

All accepted and presented papers will be included in the proceedings of the ACM ICMI 2026 workshops.

Submission Instructions

Submit through the ICMI 2026 PCS portal:

https://new.precisionconference.com/icmi26/

After signing in, select:

SIGCHI → ICMI 2026 → ICMI 2026 Workshop: Beyond a Concrete: Grounding Abstract Concepts in Multimodal Interaction

Then click Go.

Updated Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 17, 2026
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2026
Camera-ready submission: August 7, 2026
Workshop: October 9, 2026

Workshop website: https://beacon2026.github.io/

We welcome contributions from the multimodal interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, human–computer interaction, human–robot interaction, and cognitive science communities.

For questions, please contact Rahul Singh Maharjan at rahulsing...@manchester.ac.uk