| Sumario: | We are happy and honored to welcome an unusual audience to a remarkable event - the 2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, taking place online November 8 to 11. As part of ISS, Doctoral Symposium and Workshop sessions took place on November 8, with the Symposium starting from November 9. ISS is unique to its loyal and thriving community. 2020, however, is unforgettable as the year when the pandemic hit. Since March, the world went into quarantine and remained there until November. Conferences such as ISS had to mutate to move online, yet still serve their purpose to connect the community they serve in a significant manner. Transforming ISS into a virtual meeting has not been easy. The original plan was to hold a regular Lisbon meeting, listening to talks, stimulating conversation, hands-on demos, nice Lisbon weather, and excellent local seafood. By May, we had to accept that there was no alternative to going virtual. Since then, we have been working to implement a completely different event - one confined to our computer screens. Zoom and Discord replaced physical meeting rooms and we can meet in Hubhub as a replacement for virtual coffee breaks. Our technical program includes 25 accepted papers (out of 89 submissions), 15 posters, and eight demos.
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