A preprint platform for practice-based and project-oriented interactive research. Publish your work while it's still alive.
interactives is a publication platform designed specifically for the kind of research that doesn't fit conventional academic publishing: practice-based work, living projects, interactive systems, and creative-technical research that evolves over time.
Traditional peer review takes 12–24 months. By the time a project is published, it may no longer be current. interactives allows researchers to share citable records of their work while it's still developing — with versioning for updates and multimedia embedded directly in the paper.
Research validated at CHI 2026 — the premier international conference on human-computer interaction.
We publish work that advances understanding of interactive phenomena — not project announcements, but genuine research contributions.
Novel user interfaces, interaction paradigms, and input/output technologies. HCI research in any form.
Interactive games, playable experiences, and system designs where interaction is the medium.
Algorithms, agents, and systems that enable autonomous behavior — machine-machine and human-machine.
Physical and digital installations where the audience participates in shaping the work.
AI-driven creative tools, generative systems, and research at the intersection of computation and expression.
Human-human interaction mediated by technology — social systems, communication platforms, collective behavior.
Everything traditional academic publishing lacks — built in from the start.
24-hour content review — your work is online and citable the same day. No waiting for a conference cycle or peer-review queue.
Update your paper as your work evolves. Each version is timestamped and citable. Share your research at any stage, not just at "finished."
Videos, GIFs, and playable demos embedded directly in your paper. Show the interaction, not just describe it.
Likes, comments, and direct interaction with your audience. Research as a conversation, not a monologue.
A collaborative, multimedia-native editor offering up to 8.7× faster rendering than Overleaf — built from the ground up for research that moves and breathes.
Play videos and run embedded experiences directly in the editor — no export needed.
Near-instant rendering during authoring, regardless of embedded content weight.
Real-time, conflict-free co-authoring. No merging, no version chaos.
Executable papers with QR-linked PDFs — readers can run the research, not just read it.
The platform is itself a research contribution — published and peer-reviewed at the world's premier HCI conference.
An accessible authoring and publishing workflow enabling researchers to embed multimedia assets and interactive components directly into academic manuscripts — rethinking how dynamic, practice-based, and process-oriented research is communicated in scholarly venues.
From university campuses to community spaces, we have been introducing !nteractives to researchers, students, and practitioners across the Boston area.
interactives publishes rigorous research that advances understanding of interactive phenomena. We accept work at any stage — early explorations, mature systems, and everything in between.
Purely descriptive project reports with no research claim
Tool announcements without demonstrated research value
Work that does not advance understanding of interaction
Markdown-based editor, multimedia upload, instant submission.
Basic quality check — not gatekeeping, just ensuring minimum standards.
Your paper is published, indexed, and immediately citable.
Get your interactive research online and citable — in 24 hours.