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CFP Work-in-Progress Papers - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 9-12 January 2026, Las Vegas, USA

by Mirko Franco

Call for Work-in-Progress Paper – CCNC 2026 Track Chairs: Mirko Franco, University of Padua, Italy (email: mifranco(a)math.unipd.it) Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (email: pmanzoni(a)disca.upv.es) Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa, Italy (email: andrea.michienzi(a)di.unipi.it) IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-work-progress-papers IMPORTANT DATES Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026 Technical Papers due: August 31, 2025 (Firm Deadline!) Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2025 Submit at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130961 SCOPE and MOTIVATION Prospective authors are invited to submit Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers related to all areas of consumer communications and networking that summarize speculative breakthroughs, industry-featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. WiP papers are welcomed in all areas of consumer communications and networking. All Work-in-Progress papers should be submitted via EDAS, and please make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of four pages (10-point font) including figures. Accepted WiP papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Any questions should be submitted to the WiP Co-chairs.

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals

by Announce

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. Review and Oversight by Workshop Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with workshop information. The IUI 2026 website will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate a Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events). • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop. • Description of workshop topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. • Planned outcomes of the workshop: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops", and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025 • Decision Notification: September 19, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals

by Announce

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/track/saner-2026/saner-2026-workshops-tutorials-… In SANER 2026, we solicit proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshops can be full or half-day and should highlight a specific topic of interest related to software analysis, evolution, and reengineering. We encourage workshop organizers to include activities that provide their participants with a true workshop experience. All workshops will tentatively be scheduled for the first day of the conference (March 17, 2026), the day before the main conference. Should you be interested in joining SANER, please keep the deadlines below in mind. Submission Instructions Proposal submission: By August 20th, 2025 AoE, the workshop proposal (in the form of call for papers) should be submitted to the workshops EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 . The submission could be a PDF file (no more than two pages) or a public link to a call for papers webpage. The call for papers should include: • a workshop title, • a description of the workshop topic and scope, • an indication of whether the workshop will take ½ day or a full day, • a link to the workshop website, • and the contact information. The website should be live and include (at least) the following information: the topic of the workshop, its scope, list of topics of interest, names of the organizing committee members and their affiliations, types of submissions and the important dates as follows (all dates are 23:59h AoE): • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 Evaluation Criteria The proposals will be evaluated by the workshops track chairs based on the novelty of the workshop topic, its importance to the field, as well as the composition of the organizing team. Workshop PC and Submission System No later than mid of-September 2025, the workshop PC should have been finalized and the paper submission system should be live. Workshop organizers are free to select EasyChair, HotCRP or any other commonly used paper submission system. The workshop proceedings will be included in a separate section of the conference’s proceedings – the companion proceedings. SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES • Workshop Proposals Submissions: 20 August, 2025 • Workshop Proposals Notification: 27 August, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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📢 [CFP] CRISTAIN 2025 Workshop

by Eleonora CALO'

*We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call * ============================================= [*CRISTAIN 2025*] The “*supporting CRIme reSolution Through Artificial Intelligence*” workshop explores the use of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and augmented reality, to support professionals in the field of criminal investigation. The initiative aims to introduce new methodologies that can enhance current investigative practices. A key element is a human-centered approach which ensures effective and ethical tools that can be easily used by professionals in the field. Through discussion and dialogue among participants, the workshop can foster the identification of effective solutions to support the management of the investigation process. This includes building trust in automated systems, supporting human oversight and interpretability, and enabling collaborative decision-making between humans and machines. Particular attention will be provided to how human-centered methods can help in the mitigation risks and biases that should be properly handled in AI-based systems. Such methods ensure that professionals across various domains can confidently integrate AI tools into their workflows, without requiring deep technical knowledge of the underlying algorithms. ============================================= 📅 *Event Info* The *CRISTAIN workshop* will be held at the conference: - 🗓️ *CHItaly 2025 – 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter* - 📍 *October 6–10, 2025* – *Salerno, Italy* - 🌐 *Website*: https://cristain-ws.github.io/CHItaly25/ 🕒 *Important Dates* - *Paper submission deadline:* * September 5th* - *Acceptance notice:** September 12nd* - *Camera-ready submission:* *September 22nd* 📥 Submission - *Short paper length:* 5–9 pages - *Format*: PDF - *Submit via EasyChair*: CRISTAIN 2025 Submission <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cristain2025> - *Proceedings:* published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings – http://ceur-ws.org/ 🧩 *Topics* Tuned to the field of crime, topics include, but are not limited to: - Crime Scene Analyses - Case-studies on Crime Analyses - Context-aware decision making - Decision support system - Process management in complex domains - Domain-specific data collection - Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading - Data preparation and processing - Emotional AI - Neuro-Symbolic AI - Personalization and predictive interaction - Distributed interactions among intelligent systems - AI-based adaptive systems - Secure AI - Unbiased AI systems - Ethics and Trustworthy AI - Awareness and transparency in technology usage - Environmental impacts of technologies - Immersive experiences and virtual environments - Integration of technologies in complex domains - New sensory dimensions for user experiences - Redefining human capabilities through technology 👥 *Organizers* - Eleonora Calò - ecalo(a)unisa.it - University of Salerno - Loredana Caruccio - lcaruccio(a)unisa.it - University of Salerno - Autilia Vitiello - autilia.vitiello(a)unina.it - University of Naples Federico II

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[Extended Deadline] CFP: Networking Solutions for Metaverse, Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games, within IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, USA

by Salvatore Gatto

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] Call for Papers Track 2 - Networking Solutions for Metaverse, Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games *Track Chairs*: Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua, Italy (email: gaggi(a)math.unipd.it <mailto:gaggi@math.unipd.it>) Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (email: manuela.montangero(a)unimore.it <mailto:manuela.montangero@unimore.it>) *IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA* https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-technical-papers *IMPORTANT DATES* Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026 Technical Papers due: August 31, 2025 Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2025 *Summit at*: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130953 *SCOPE and MOTIVATION * Social applications, multimedia, and games play a substantial role in shaping Internet traffic and have emerged as dominant mode of social interaction online. This recent trend has sparked significant research interests, both at the network level and in terms of application and service development. Moreover, with the advent of the metaverse, research focus within these domains has expanded to encompass virtual worlds, immersive experiences, and social interactions in virtual environments. Given their increasing prevalence and interdisciplinary nature, social applications, multimedia, and games have also garnered research attention across diverse fields, including big data analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, data sensing, information security, and privacy protection. *MAIN TOPIC OF INTEREST* The Networking solutions for social applications, multimedia, and games track seeks original contributions in the following areas, as well as others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related: - Artificial Intelligence for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Architectures, Platforms, and Protocols. - Business models for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Communication security for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Data Sensing. - Distributed games engines. - Ethical considerations in social applications, multimedia, and games. - Gamification and game-based learning in applications. - Human-Computer Interfaces and Human-Machine Interfaces. - Immersive storytelling and narrative techniques in multimedia and games. - Knowledge discovery for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Metaverse, virtual worlds, immersive experiences. - Naming and routing of media streams. - New paradigms of future communications networks. - Non-visual Interfaces for accessibility and/or Virtual Reality. - Novel applications for the social, multimedia, and games scenario. - Smart moving and smart objects. - Social computing and collective intelligence. - Social influence and persuasion in multimedia and games. - Social interactions in communication networks. - Recommender algorithms. - Rumor source localization in large-scale, real-world networking solutions. - User profiling and behavior analysis. - User engagement and retention strategies in social applications and games. - Virtual reality and augmented reality applications.

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ACM GoodIT 2025 - Early Bird Registration

by Mirko Franco

ACM GoodIT 2025 – Call for Early Registration 5th ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good Antwerp, Belgium, 3-5 September 2025 https://goodit2025.idlab.uantwerpen.be/ We are excited to announce that registration for the ACM GoodIT 2025 conference is now open! The early bird registration is available until August 25th, 2025. This year's conference will be held from September 3-5, 2025, in the beautiful city of Antwerp, Belgium. ACM GoodIT 2025 focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good, a concept that encompasses actions providing benefits to the general public. Traditional examples include Internet connectivity, education, and healthcare. However, the rapid growth of new media innovations and online communities has expanded the meaning of social good. Today, it represents the efforts of global citizens uniting to harness the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. We invite you to join us in exploring the latest advancements and innovative applications of IT for social good. The conference will feature a diverse range of presentations and networking opportunities designed to foster collaboration and inspire new ideas. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of a global movement dedicated to making a difference through technology. To register and learn more about the conference, please visit our website: https://goodit2025.idlab.uantwerpen.be. We look forward to welcoming you in Antwerp!

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CFP Work-in-Progress Papers - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 9-12 January 2026, Las Vegas, USA

by Mirko Franco

Call for Work-in-Progress Paper – CCNC 2026 Track Chairs: Mirko Franco, University of Padua, Italy (email: mifranco(a)math.unipd.it) Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (email: pmanzoni(a)disca.upv.es) Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa, Italy (email: andrea.michienzi(a)di.unipi.it) IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-work-progress-papers IMPORTANT DATES Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026 Technical Papers due: August 31, 2025 Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2025 Submit at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130961 SCOPE and MOTIVATION Prospective authors are invited to submit Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers related to all areas of consumer communications and networking that summarize speculative breakthroughs, industry-featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. WiP papers are welcomed in all areas of consumer communications and networking. All Work-in-Progress papers should be submitted via EDAS, and please make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of four pages (10-point font) including figures. Accepted WiP papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Any questions should be submitted to the WiP Co-chairs.

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CFP: Special issue n. 68 on "Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/*Errata-Corrige* Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence: Co-imagining mutual learning of AI technologies and designing with AI tools* Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/participatory-design-meets-artificial-intelligence/> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2007 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Susanne Stigberg, Østfold University College, Norway • Klaudia Carcani, Østfold University College, Norway • Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo, Norway • Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 10th*, 2025 • Notification to the authors: October 30th, 2025 • Camera ready paper: January 10th, 2026 • Publication of the special issue: Spring 2026 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) make Participatory Design (PD) obsolete? AI systems are deployed rapidly across domains of considerable social significance—in healthcare, education, employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate safeguards or accountability structures in place. At the same time, there is a growing interest in using participatory approaches for the design, development, and evaluation of AI systems across industries, academia and the public sector. Researchers have started to explore different aspects of AI tools for co-creation in PD and different co-creation processes for the design of AI-based solutions. In this special issue, we aim to collect and share explorations with and about AI in PD to create a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. Early PD projects were motivated by the introduction of computer technologies into industrial workplaces, where they threatened to impoverish or take over jobs. Just like computers were a threat to work and workers in the 1970s and 80s, AI seems to be a threat to workers—and societies—today. This is an argument for using a PD approach aimed at understanding the technology and its potential for changing workplaces and work practices, as well as to open up for workers to have a say in choices concerning the technology during its design and use. We see two different combinations of AI and PD: a) the use of AI tools in PD for design inspiration or co-ideation, and b) using PD activities to collaboratively envision digital futures with AI. Can PD help to understand AI and its potential for changing our lives? Bratteteig and Verne argue that PD is well suited for users and designers working together to negotiate and mitigate the challenges AI poses to our digitalized societies. However, they argue that PD researchers need to navigate through three challenges: understanding AI technology, evaluating AI solutions, and distinguishing between “normal use” and training of AI services. Voinov and Bousquet propose participatory modeling as a purposeful learning process for action that engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representation(s) of reality. As a step towards broadening the discussion about AI and PD, our proposal seeks to extend a warm invitation to researchers and professionals worldwide who are exploring the intersection of PD and AI, including both aspects of mutual learning and co-designing. This special issue is also an extension of a workshop that took place at NORDICHI 2024. The purpose of this special issue, therefore, in addition to collecting contributions from those who participated in the workshop, is to broaden the discussion to include scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the discourse about AI and PD and who would like to contribute with and share their own visions. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: • Perspectives on co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. • Learning practices and strategies for understanding AI. • Challenges facing PD for designing AI solutions • Lessons learned from facilitated participatory activities AI tools. • Combinations of the above. =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-30 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://ojs.ixdea.org/> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /SI: //Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence/ • susanne [dot] k [dot] stigberg [at] hiof [dot] no • klaudia [dot] carcani [at] hiof [dot] no • joshi [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no • tone [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * *

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CFP: Special issue n. 68 on "Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *STEAM teaching and learning: advances beyond the state of the art * Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/participatory-design-meets-artificial-intelligence/> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2007 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Susanne Stigberg, Østfold University College, Norway • Klaudia Carcani, Østfold University College, Norway • Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo, Norway • Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 10th*, 2025 • Notification to the authors: October 30th, 2025 • Camera ready paper: January 10th, 2026 • Publication of the special issue: Spring 2026 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) make Participatory Design (PD) obsolete? AI systems are deployed rapidly across domains of considerable social significance—in healthcare, education, employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate safeguards or accountability structures in place. At the same time, there is a growing interest in using participatory approaches for the design, development, and evaluation of AI systems across industries, academia and the public sector. Researchers have started to explore different aspects of AI tools for co-creation in PD and different co-creation processes for the design of AI-based solutions. In this special issue, we aim to collect and share explorations with and about AI in PD to create a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. Early PD projects were motivated by the introduction of computer technologies into industrial workplaces, where they threatened to impoverish or take over jobs. Just like computers were a threat to work and workers in the 1970s and 80s, AI seems to be a threat to workers—and societies—today. This is an argument for using a PD approach aimed at understanding the technology and its potential for changing workplaces and work practices, as well as to open up for workers to have a say in choices concerning the technology during its design and use. We see two different combinations of AI and PD: a) the use of AI tools in PD for design inspiration or co-ideation, and b) using PD activities to collaboratively envision digital futures with AI. Can PD help to understand AI and its potential for changing our lives? Bratteteig and Verne argue that PD is well suited for users and designers working together to negotiate and mitigate the challenges AI poses to our digitalized societies. However, they argue that PD researchers need to navigate through three challenges: understanding AI technology, evaluating AI solutions, and distinguishing between “normal use” and training of AI services. Voinov and Bousquet propose participatory modeling as a purposeful learning process for action that engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representation(s) of reality. As a step towards broadening the discussion about AI and PD, our proposal seeks to extend a warm invitation to researchers and professionals worldwide who are exploring the intersection of PD and AI, including both aspects of mutual learning and co-designing. This special issue is also an extension of a workshop that took place at NORDICHI 2024. The purpose of this special issue, therefore, in addition to collecting contributions from those who participated in the workshop, is to broaden the discussion to include scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the discourse about AI and PD and who would like to contribute with and share their own visions. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: • Perspectives on co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. • Learning practices and strategies for understanding AI. • Challenges facing PD for designing AI solutions • Lessons learned from facilitated participatory activities AI tools. • Combinations of the above. =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-30 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://ojs.ixdea.org/> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /SI: //Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence/ • susanne [dot] k [dot] stigberg [at] hiof [dot] no • klaudia [dot] carcani [at] hiof [dot] no • joshi [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no • tone [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * *

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Call for Papers

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*** Second Call for Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques, and systems. This area is crucial as AI is increasingly integrated into everyday technology. Understanding and shaping AI systems for human needs is essential to ensure that AI systems are effective and responsible. As these techniques become increasingly powerful, new use cases and human-AI interactions can be explored. This conference offers an opportunity to focus the research community on important problems at the intersection of AI and HCI and bring together experts from various disciplines to discuss and build on these ideas in workshops, breaks, and networking sessions. Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the IUI community, and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral presentations. Contributions to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Topics IUI 2026 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Human-centered AI methods, approaches, and systems • Explainable AI methods • Democratization of AI • Persuasive technologies in IUI • Privacy and security of IUI • Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation • User modelling for intelligent interfaces • User-adaptive interaction and personalization • IUI for crowd computing and human computation • Human control in daily automations • Trust and reliance in intelligent systems Computational innovation • Interactive machine learning • Human-in-the loop AI testing and debugging • Human-centered recommendation and recommender systems • Generative models • Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning • Intelligent user interfaces for generative AI Innovative User Interfaces • Affective interfaces • Intelligent aesthetic interfaces • Intelligent collaborative interfaces • Intelligent AR/VR interfaces • Intelligent visualization and visual analytics • Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces • Intelligent tangible interfaces Intelligent Multimodal Systems • Embodied agents • Multimodal AI assistants • Intelligent multimodal interfaces Intelligent Applications • Education and learning-related technologies • Healthcare and wellbeing • Automotive • Assistive technologies • Entertainment • Workplace happiness • Social media • Internet of Things (IoT) • Smart homes Large Language Models and Agentic AI • End-user interaction with LLMs, agents, and multimodal models (e.g., chatbots, image generation) • LLMs and agents in the workplace • Human-agent interaction and multi-agent systems • Bias in LLMs and agents • The effects of LLMs and agents use on creative tasks • Personalized user interaction with LLMs and agents • Prompt engineering • User control and steering of LLMs and agents (e.g., RLHF, chaining, instruction tuning) Evaluations of Intelligent User Interfaces • User experiments and studies • Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) • Meta-analysis • Mixed-methods evaluations Papers We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. At least one author of all accepted papers must register with full registration fee (not student registration fee), attend in person, and present their paper during the main conference program. One registration covers one paper only. A selected set of accepted top-quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) special issue titled “Highlights of IUI 2026” that will appear in 2027. Reflection of practical and societal impact We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work (as well as its shortcomings) throughout their projects and to include a reflection on those implications in their papers, in particular how the proposed methods and insights could be applied and deployed in a realistic setting and how they can improve people's lives in the real world. We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work in terms of diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI topic and its societal impact. We recognize that technology is rarely neutral --- simply by making some things easier than others, it reshapes society (Winner, 1980; Green, 2020). Further, given the incredibly short invention-to-application cycles for AI-related technologies, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that “somebody else” will carefully consider how an emerging intelligent user interface technology might impact the world before this technology is deployed. Our purpose is to help authors ensure that the likely societal consequences of their work are consistent with their intentions and values. For colleagues who are not yet experienced with incorporating societal impacts into their IUI research but who are willing to give it a try, here are some ideas to consider. Anonymization ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (and supplemental materials) must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: • Authors' names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. • Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. • Self-citations should be included where necessary but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being desk-rejected without review. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects Any research in submitted manuscripts that involves human subjects must go through the appropriate ethics review requirements that apply to the authors’ research environment. As research environments vary considerably with regard to their requirements, authors are asked to submit a short note to reviewers that provides this context. Please also see the 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving human participants and subjects before submitting. Additional Policies Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences and ACM Publications Policies. Submission Format, Length, and Platform We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Papers are of variable length. Paper length must be proportional to its contribution. We encourage authors to stay within a 10,000 word limit. Authors of papers exceeding 12,000 words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the paper is commensurate with the contribution of the work. Submission Platform All materials must be submitted electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/) by the abstract and paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Papers”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Supplemental Materials Submitting supplemental material (e.g., questionnaires, demo videos of applications, data sheets) is optional but encouraged. If supplying a demo video, please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for videos. Publication and Open Access The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: * $250 APC for ACM/SIG members * $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract: October 3, 2025 • Full Paper: October 10, 2025 • Decision Notification: December 12, 2025 • Camera-ready Submission: January 23, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China • Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland • Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

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