[agents] [Call for Papers] 2nd Workshop on Communication in Human-AI Interaction

[Jennifer Renoux]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

The CHAI workshop welcomes submissions of position papers (8 pages maximum
in Springer LNCS format) about Communication in Human-AI Interaction. The
workshop will be an interactive work group with a design activity and group
discussions.

Paper deadline: April 28th.
Workshop date: between 28th of August 2023 and 1st of September 2023 (TBD)
Workshop website: https://chai-workshop.github.io/
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chai23

Workshop Overview
Human interactions with AI systems are becoming part of our everyday life.
If designed and developed efficiently, these interactions have great
potential to enhance human work, abilities, and well-being. Communication,
here is the iterative process of establishing shared meaning, is a crucial
aspect of successful interaction and has been studied for years, from HCI,
AI, and cognitive sciences points of view, among others. The goal of this
workshop is to bring together experts from HCI, AI, 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.

Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Blended social contexts, comprising both human and technological
communication
- Communication in multi-user interaction with intelligent agents
- Verbal and non-verbal human-AI communication
- Explicit and implicit human-AI communication
- Rules of etiquette and social norms in human-AI communication
- Communication in human-AI collaboration
- Human-AI communication design
- Language and communication
- Theory of Mind
- Common ground
- Inclusion and Diversity in Human-AI Communication
- Embodied multi-modal communication between humans and physical robots

Workshop format
The workshop will be a one-day workshop and intends to be a collaborative
thinking group about the challenges surrounding Communication in Human-AI
Interaction. The workshop aims at being interactive and will consist of two
main parts.
First, participants will be invited to collaborate on a design activity.
For this activity, participants will be grouped as best as possible by
topics and each group will be given the same challenge: analyzing and
suggesting a solution to an HAI communication problem. At the end of the
activity, each group will report on their solution.
Second, we will have group discussions in two phases, for which groups will
be shuffled to be cross-disciplinary. Each group will be given a separate
topic. The goal of each group will be to identify common interests, open
questions, and challenges related to this topic. The groups are shuffled
between phases, and participants are encouraged to build on top of the
previous groups’ discussion. Each discussion phase will be followed by a
quick report of each group. The day will end with a longer plenary
discussion, during which we will also outline the after-workshop steps.
The design activity problem and the discussion topics will be chosen
following participants' submissions so that they align with the expertise
and interest of the workshop participants.
By the end of the workshop, we expect to be as close as possible to a
common agreement about an outline for the coordinated research agenda,
including key points to explore further. Post-workshop, the results will be
communicated to a larger audience through various activities to be
synchronized with the participants.

Submission Requirements
We welcome interested participants to submit position papers stating
existing work, conceptual design, or their position with respect to the
workshop topics. The submission should also include one or two points of
discussion that the participant would like to address during the workshop.

Submission should be made through EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chai23) and be formatted according
to the Springer LNCS format, templates available for LaTeX and Word,
maximum 8 pages. We strongly encourage authors of position papers to follow
the SIGCHI accessibility guidelines.

Important Dates
Paper deadline: April 28th, 2023 AoE
Notification: May 19th, 2023
Workshop date: between 28th of August 2023 and 1st of September 2023 (TBD)
Organizing Committee
Jennifer Renoux, Örebro University, Sweden
Jasmin Grosinger, Örebro University, Sweden
Marta Romeo, Herriot-Watt University, UK
Victor Kaptelinin, Umeå University, Sweden
Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto University, Finland

Contact information
Workshop website: https://chai-workshop.github.io/
For inquiries about the workshop, please contact jennifer.renoux at oru.se
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