Immersive Article Explained
What is an Immersive Paper?
As printed papers become increasingly less common, the goal is to rethink how papers can be presented and enriched. Reading papers in a browser gives access to more types of media than just text and images, e.g., video, sound, or interactive figures can be directly embedded in an article to show the outcome of a paper or guide the reader through a pseudocode step-by-step.
Immersive articles aim to utilize interactive content to explain Game mechanics, AI, or Computational Intelligence concepts and technologies. The immersive articles provide a more vivid and attractive presentation than the conventional print publication and seek to provide an immersive user experience that communicates ideas more clearly. Interactive components (e.g., WebGL, Javascript) can be used to explain interactivity, experiential concepts, or methods and allow for a hands-on experience in understanding a game mechanic, interactive analytics, or solving problems using AI techniques addressed in the article, e.g., by adapting parameters, building their own models from several building blocks, or interactively analyzing a data set or a learned model. In this way, the audiences will gain access to immersive learning experiences. We believe that this interactive approach will help the audiences to better understand the novel game mechanics, analytics, or AI methods introduced in the paper by interacting and experimenting with the articles.
The authors are required to submit a short or full paper, which describes the main concepts or methods that the authors want to explain to the readers. In addition, the authors need to build a webpage as specified below to publish the full article on IEEE Xplore where the authors explain the concepts or methods of the novel mechanics, analytics or AI systems using interactive approaches to the readers. Authors can refer to the webinar recording “Introducing Immersive Articles and How to Write Them” for preparing the article.
The template (see below in the resources section) works similarly to a typical LaTeX article. It uses HTML tags for headers, paragraphs, figures, tables, and scripts. The article, however, will be hosted by IEEE and run locally in the reader's browser. Therefore, the authors must submit all scripts together with the article and are not allowed to connect to external servers from within their article. This is inteded to preserve the paper for a long term and remove any dependencies from external services.
To make the work citeable, the PDF and the immersive article share a single entry in IEEE Xplore and share a DOI. Usually, the PDF directly refers to the immersive article and the immersive article itself can be considered as an extended version of the PDF including all the interactive elements.
What are Examples of Immersive Papers?
You can see a Demo Article. Also hosted here, with a different template. See also: Special Issue 1 on AI-eXplained and Special Issue 2 on AI-eXplained. See the ones that have the immersive article icon.
What to submit?
During the submission process, the authors need to choose the Immersive Article type. Then submit:
- a regular PDF (following the full or short paper format)
- a ZIP file containing the article and all its required files, including but not limited to the article following the template.html file provided by IEEE CIS, images, self-written scripts as well as external libraries and packages. Note that the authors need to make sure that the use of the external libraries and packages complies with copyright regulations. Please submit the ZIP file as a “supplementary” in the ScholarOne manuscript system.