Welcoming 2024 with Human-Centered AI Workshops

by Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research, US) & Werner Geyer (IBM Research, US)

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Welcome to the new year, as well as the start of our second year of this publication on Human-Centered AI! We’d like to start the new year by inviting you to participate in a number of great workshops coming up soon related to different aspects of human-centered AI. They are:

IUI 2024 (March 18-21, Greenville, SC, USA)

• HUMANIZE: Transparency and Explainability in Adaptive Systems through User Modeling Grounded in Psychological Theory. Topics include user models for personalizing user interfaces and issues of explainability, fairness, transparency, and bias. Submit by January 16th.
• HAI-GEN: Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models. Topics include generative AI and co-creativity. Submit by January 19th.

Human-Centered Medical AI Design Bootcamp (March 25-29, University of Oxford, UK)

• This is a 5-day, in-person, human-centered AI design bootcamp where participants can train to identify, design, and prototype digital health solutions for complex healthcare challenges using AI tools. Keynote speakers include Ben Shneiderman (Emeritus Professor, University of Maryland) and Kurt Waltenbaugh (Managing Advisor, Kestrel Rising). Registration opens in early February.

CHI 2024 (May 11-16, Honolulu, HI, USA)

• Human-Centered Explainable AI. Topics include explainability of generative models, impact assessments & accountability, dark patterns, power dynamics, and XAI issues in the Global South. Submit by February 14th.
• Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction. Topics include designing theory of mind capabilities in AI systems and shaping human mental models of AI systems. Submit by February 22nd.
• Trust and Reliance in Evolving Human-AI Workflows. Topics include definitions and measures of trust and reliance and impact of AI on human skill development. Submit by February 23rd.
• HEAL: Human-centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models. Topics include human-centered evaluation and auditing approaches for large language models, including understanding stakeholders’ needs and goals, tools, processes, and guidelines for LLM evaluation, and regulatory measures and public policies for LLM auditing. Submit by February 23rd.
• Generative AI and HCI. Topics include patterns of collaboration between humans and generative AI and ethical issues. Submit by February 28th.

IJCAI 2024 (August 3-9, Jeju, South Korea)

• Special Track on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Topics include human-centric engineering, deployment, usability, evaluation, and standardization of AI/ML techniques. Submit by February 27 (abstract) and March 5 (full submission).

ACL 2024 (August 11-16, Bangkok, Thailand)

• Human-Centered Large Language Modeling Workshop. Topics include training LLMs with human context (including personal factors and social context) and group and/or individual human characteristics and traits, evaluations that demonstrate personalized or contextual language understanding, bias measurement and mitigation, human language modeling for low-resource languages, and ethical risks.

Hope to see you at one (or all!) of these great venues! 👋

Editor’s Note: This article was updated on 1/18 to include the HEAL workshop at CHI 2024.