The organization of the conference invites Ph.D. students to submit their research papers within the following categories and challenges them to present out-of-the-box solutions and ideas on design for today and for the future:

Interaction design and User-centered design
Design for social innovation and sustainability
Design principles and practices
Envision Future
Mapping Design
Art and visual production
Communication, culture, and consumption

Break the rules and join us for three days of keynote speakers, presentations and networking advancing the state of design research.

**Submission
**In order to take part in the DDC’18, candidates should submit their full articles using the Easychair platform. Before submitting the full papers, the author must register as a user.
[Easychair Registration

](https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=67820269.vZ9KDsKSi6yIBKEN)**Template
**To submit your full paper, please use the paper template provided here; please follow exactly the template provided on this page.
All the articles have to be written in English, up to 8 pages, including all paper components (references, appendices, acknowledgments, etc.).
[Download Template

](http://ddc2018.unidcom-iade.pt/callforpapers)References
References must use the [APA style]

Review
All the submitted articles will be evaluated by the scientific committee with a double-blind peer-review. All open access articles are published under Creative Commons Licence.

Publication
The presented works will be published in a digital proceeding book with ISBN, available after the conference.

The best 16 papers (by Editors choice) will be indicated for publication in a Special Issue of the “Ergodesign & HCI” journal, from the Arts & Design Department of PUC-Rio, Brazil – ISSN 2317-8876, which is indexed in CAPES.

**KEY DATES
****Submission of the full paper: 7th of May

****Notification of acceptance: 28th of May

**Submission of the final paper: 8th of June