CHAI Workshop 2024

Malmö, Sweden


Welcome to the Communication in Human-AI Interaction Workshop
The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together experts from AI, HCI, and Cognitive Sciences to explore and understand the specificities and characteristics of communication in human-AI interactions, as well as the salient principles, methods, and theories one has to consider to build meaningful human-AI communication systems.

The workshop is hosted as part of the HHAI 2024 Conference.

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Call for Participation

Human Interactions with AI systems are becoming part of our everyday life. If designed and developed efficiently, these interactions have great potential in enhancing human work, abilities, and well-being. In this workshop, we decide to take the particular viewpoint in which AI systems are not merely a tool for expression or communication, but in which they take the role of ``communicators’’, meaning systems with which humans create shared meaning. This shift creates many new challenges and opportunities to design new ways for humans and AI systems to interact. For instance, such AI communicators may have the agency to initiate communication interactions, and should contribute to such interactions in an efficient way.
We welcome short papers (6 pages excluding references) formatted using the IOS formatting guidelines. Submissions will be done through EasyChair. Papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee based on their relevance to the workshop topics and interest in encouraging fruitful discussion.
We strongly encourage authors of papers to follow the SIGCHI accessibility guidelines.
Accepted papers will be published with CEUR-WS, unless authors specify that they wish for the paper not be publicly available (request can be done by sending an email to jennifer.renoux@oru.se after notification of acceptance).

Topics

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

  • Concepts and theories of communication in human-AI interaction
  • Human-AI communication design
  • Blended social contexts, comprising both human and technological communication
  • Communication in multi-user interaction with intelligent agents
  • Embodied multi-modal human-AI communication (including physical robots)
  • Verbal and non-verbal human-AI communication
  • Communication for human-AI collaboration
  • Establishing common ground in human-AI communication
  • Inclusion and Diversity in Human-AI Communication

Workshop Format

The primary goal of this workshop is to bridge disciplinary boundaries between various fields, included but not limited to AI, HRI, and HCI, in order to gather a multi-perspective view on the topic of Communication in Human-AI Interaction. In particular, we are interested in exploring the core characteristics of AI communicators and human-AI communication, exchanging research methods, and fostering long-term collaboration between practitioners of different fields.
As the study of communication in human-AI interaction is by essence a multidisciplinary approach, we aim for this workshop to be a multidisciplinary platform where researchers can learn to work together and pave the way to impacting research. We also wish to use this opportunity to draw a tentative disciplinary map of the topic of Communication in Human-AI Interaction, describing different perspectives, research directions, methods, and how these perspectives can be related to one another within the research area as a whole.

The morning will focus on networking. First participants will introduce themselves, and participants who have a position paper accepted will present it in a round of lightning talks. After the keynote and the coffee break, we will organize a poster session for participant to discover each-others research. The afternoon will be organized around a design activity, organized in three parts:

  1. Participants discuss the main conceptual / disciplinary perspectives of their fields, indentified from contributions and previous work, and then divide themselves into working groups, each group centered around a given field.
  2. The groups work separately, from their respective perspectives, on the design assignment. Note that the assignment will not be about producing a concrete design, but rather about how to plan the design work, identifying the most relevant issues, questions, priorities, concepts, and methods.
  3. The groups present their visions and have a plenary discussion about how and if the different perspectives can be combined, identifying potential common research directions.
    To organize and moderate the workshop and to maximize our chances of efficient discussions and results, we will make use of the framework introduced by (Axelsson, 2021) and the corresponding canvas tools.

Important Dates

All dates are Anywhere on Earth.

  • Paper submission: April 10, 2024
  • Acceptance notification: May 2, 2024
  • Workshop date: June 10-11, 2024 (TBD)

Our Invited Speaker

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Ilaria Torre

Assistant Professor in Human-Robot Interaction

Tentative Schedule

Time Activity
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and presentation of the workshop goal
09:15 - 10:00 Introduction Rounds + Lightning talks
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Networking / Poster Session
13:30 - 15:30 Design Activity
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 Plenary discussion
16:45 - 17:00 Wrap up
Evening Informal Workshop Dinner

Organizers

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Jennifer Renoux

Researcher in Artificial Intelligence, Örebro University, Sweden

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Jasmin Grosinger

Researcher in Artificial Intelligence, Örebro University, Sweden

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Marta Romeo

Assistant Professor in Human-Robot Interaction, Heriot-Watt University, United-Kingdom

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Kiran M. Sabu

Ph.D. Student in Human-AI Communication, Örebro University, Sweden

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Kim Baraka

Assistant Professor, Free University (VU) Amsterdam, The Netherland

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Victor Kaptelinin

Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Umeå University, Sweden

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