Accepted Workshops

Description

Over the past two decades, Creative Technology has emerged as a hybrid professional field shaped largely by art and design rather than engineering pedagogies. Its successes, from open hardware platforms like Arduino to open creative coding environments like Processing and openFrameworks, have enabled new forms of artistic, civic, and educational experimentation, and enriched the tools available to hobbyist and maker communities.

At a time when Silicon Valley agendas seem complicit in limiting creative possibility, this workshop looks instead toward a preferable future in which the philosophy of Creative Technology can support critical and engaged relationships with complex systems and technologies, embracing uncertainty, messiness, and self-expression.

The day is structured around Creative Technology’s pasts, presents, and futures. Participants bring three artefacts, one representing each temporal perspective, for a hands-on, largely screen-free day of show-and-tell, collective storytelling and reflection, working toward next steps for the field.

Call for Participation

Bring three artefacts (objects, prototypes, photographs, sketches, demonstrations, mood boards, or other creative forms) representing your personal or professional relationship with Creative Technology - one from the past, one from the present, and one speculating on a preferable future.

• Submit images of artefacts by: 13 August (AoE), via the workshop website
• Notifications: rolling basis, before 27 August
• At least one participant per accepted submission must attend, in person or online
• Group size: 15–25 participants (including organisers)

Who should attend

Researchers, designers, artists, educators, students, and practitioners with an interest in creative technology, physical computing, open hardware, and design pedagogy.

Description

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly translating into health, care, and everyday lived experience, bringing transformative benefits alongside new challenges. Example applications range from AI-assisted diagnosis and treatment support to wellness chatbots and fitness coaches.

The workshop addresses AI in health and care settings and the broader wellbeing implications of everyday AI interaction, conversational agents, workplace tools, wearable sensing, and generative AI interfaces.

This is the 2nd edition of the workshop, following a half-day session at the 2026 Hybrid Human-AI (HHAI) Conference in Brussels. Based on feedback from that first workshop, this edition expands to a full-day hybrid format to allow more time for discussion, Q&A, and activities. The day includes:

• Morning: welcome and introductions, an introductory activity, and short presentations from accepted contributors with Q&A
• Afternoon: facilitated group discussion, priorities/reflection/synthesis activities (including a visual mapping output), and closing remarks on next steps

The organisers are in discussion with OUP’s Interacting with Computers (IwC) journal about a special issue on the workshop theme, offering a potential pathway from workshop participation to publication.

Call for Participation

Short eWiC-formatted papers (4–6 pages, excluding references) are invited via the workshop’s EasyChair portal, on topics including (but not limited to):

• Explainability and transparency in AI-driven health tools
• Emotional and psychological impacts of interacting with AI
• Human-AI collaboration in clinical decision-making and caring relationships
• AI-driven behaviour change and habit formation
• Participatory and inclusive design for health and wellbeing in HAII systems
• Approaches to trust and user empowerment
• Unintended consequences and long-term implications relating to HAII

See the HW&HAII workshop site for the full list.

Papers are invited to be submitted via the workshop EasyChair portal.

• Submission deadline: 13 August 2026
• Notifications: 27 August 2026
• Group size: 8–18 participants preferred (excluding organisers), room capacity for 20–25

Submissions reviewed by at least two programme committee members; accepted authors are invited to give talks, optionally with demonstrations. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend and register.

Who should attend

HCI, human-centred AI, clinical decision support, digital health, medical imaging AI, wearable sensing, medtech, conversational systems, and inclusive/digital-society researchers and practitioners, i.e., anyone working across clinical AI, wellbeing technologies, conversational systems, wearable sensing, participatory design, workplace AI, or generative AI.

Description

As AI becomes ubiquitous, people across contexts (work, learning, creativity, community) experience identity erosion: a loss of self when AI displaces, devalues, or questions what makes them who they are. Despite mounting evidence of its psychological and social consequences, this phenomenon remains largely absent from HCI research and discussion.

This half-day workshop brings together HCI researchers, technologists, psychologists, and practitioners for facilitated dialogue and collaborative reflection on identity erosion as an emerging HCI challenge. Rather than presenting findings or solutions, the workshop creates space to think together by exploring scenarios, consequences, and implications across contexts.

The workshop is structured around five guiding questions and four interconnected scenarios of identity loss:

• Loss of Competence: Skill displacement erodes mastery and professional self-knowledge
• Loss of Professional Role: Role redefinition threatens belonging and standing within a professional community
• Loss of Social Value: Constant performance comparison against AI erodes a worker’s sense of worth
• Loss of Agency: Algorithmic decision-making reduces workers to executing or verifying outputs, eroding authorship and control

The workshop runs from scenario mapping and lived-experience sharing in small groups, through cross-group synthesis to identify patterns, to speculative “design station” activities imagining 2035 futures, closing with a session on community commitment and continuity. Outcomes include a scenario map and a research priorities document, shared with participants and the wider HCI community, alongside a mailing list to sustain the community beyond the workshop, with a longer-term connection to the EPSRC SPRITE+ initiative on AI and identity erosion.

Call for Participation

Submit a 1-page position paper (~500 words) covering your background and interest in AI and identity, why you care about identity preservation in the age of AI, and what you hope to contribute or learn.

No prior expertise in identity theory is required — lived experience of identity erosion is valued, and perspectives from any context (work, learning, creativity, or community) are welcome.

• Date: 1 November 2026 (morning, half-day)
• Applications: by 15 September 2026
• Group size: 15–25 participants (minimum 8; organisers not included)
• All sessions include real-time captions, live transcription, and a virtual (Zoom) attendance option

Who should attend

HCI researchers, technologists, psychologists, ethicists, designers, educators, and anyone interested in how AI shapes identity and what responsible design means in light of this challenge. Researchers and practitioners across disciplines, career stages, and backgrounds are equally welcome.

Description

AI is increasingly shaping how people are understood, represented, and supported across everyday life. However, many AI systems rely on categorisation and prediction in ways that don’t fully capture the relational, evolving nature of personhood. As AI plays a growing role in shaping how individuals are understood and represented, HCI needs a deeper understanding of how identity and personhood are considered in AI research and design.

This workshop builds on the organisers’ CHI 2026 meet-up, “AI and the Self: Exploring Identity, Agency, and Relational Personhood,” where themes of dignity, autonomy, AI decision-making, and care emerged, and attendees called for further, more creative exploration of the topic.

Combining collaborative discussion with creative, craft-based activities, the workshop asks how AI systems may shape, support, or disrupt personhood, and aims to surface relationality, lived experience, and social connection as central considerations for future AI research and design. The day includes:

• Strength cards icebreaker: reflecting on different understandings of personhood across disciplines and lived experience
• Layered vignette annotations: using acetate sheets as interpretive “lenses” (data practices, relationality, ethics, future design) to collaboratively explore attendee-submitted and organiser-provided vignettes
• Mapping personhood: a visual, materials-based small-group activity exploring which aspects of personhood are visible, supported, overlooked, or complicated by current AI systems
• Agenda building: collectively identifying research questions, ethical considerations, and design opportunities for the future of AI and personhood in HCI

Outputs (annotated vignettes, material maps, and a shared research agenda) will be synthesised into a publicly available workshop report, with the organising team also aiming toward a future publication on relational personhood in AI research and design.

Call for Participation

All attendees must submit a contribution and register for the workshop. Submit either:

• A short vignette (~250 words plus an image) grounded in your own research, lived experience, speculative futures, or wider interests; or
• A ~250-word reflection responding to one of the organisers’ example vignettes

Attendee selection will be based on relevance to the workshop themes while ensuring a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives.

Vignette examples and submission details are on the submission site.

• Submission deadline: 13 August 2026
• Notifications: 27 August 2026
• Group size: approx. 25 participants

Who should attend

HCI researchers, designers, practitioners, students and industry professionals working across AI, HCI, healthcare, accessibility, disability, ethics, participatory design, design research and related disciplines.