37.2211, Confs: Beyond the Concrete: Grounding Abstract Concepts in Multimodal Interaction (Italy)

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Date: 29-Jun-2026
From: Rahul Singh [rahul.simha.is at gmail.com]
Subject: Beyond the Concrete: Grounding Abstract Concepts in Multimodal Interaction


Beyond the Concrete: Grounding Abstract Concepts in Multimodal
Interaction
Short Title: BEACON 2026

Date: 09-Oct-2026 - 09-Oct-2026
Location: Naples, Italy
Meeting URL: https://beacon2026.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Language Acquisition

Submission Deadline: 17-Jul-2026

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
rahulsingh.maharjan at manchester.ac.uk



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