About us

The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2026 symposium includes a special emphasis on human-centricity in the era of generative AI.

Important Dates

Mon, May 4, 2026

Abstracts registration deadline

Mon, May 11, 2026

Submission deadline

Mon, Jun 15, 2026

Reviews sent to authors

Mon, Jun 15, 2026

Rebuttal phase start

Sun, Jun 21, 2026

Rebuttal phase end

Fri, Jul 3, 2026

Notification

Fri, Jul 24, 2026

Camera-ready

Tue, Sep 29, 2026

Conference start

Fri, Oct 2, 2026

Conference end

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Human-AI Collaboration

Visual languages

Human aspects and psychology of software development and language design

End-user development, adaptation and programming

Representations

Modeling

Thinking more deeply about code

Programming for AI/ML

Low-Code/No-Code paradigm

Education and Computational thinking

Call for Papers Description

We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies and languages for modeling, programming, and reasoning, which are easier to learn, use or understand by humans. We invite full-length papers (up to 10 pages) and short papers (up to 5 pages).