We invite proposals for two-day, full-day, and half-day workshops at HHAI 2025, the Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. We also invite tutorials to run alongside the workshops.
Some of the accepted workshops and tutorials will form part of the second edition of the HHAI Summer School.
The HHAI 2025 workshops and tutorials provide a platform for discussing a topic related to Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence with an audience specifically interested in that topic in an informal setting (compared to the main conference).
We invite submissions for events fostering cross-disciplinary interaction, scientific discourse, and creative and critical reflection rather than just mini-conferences. We offer organizers flexibility on formats that best suit the goals of their event. We also welcome submissions from research communities that may not be prominently featured in AI events and conferences.
Workshop and Tutorials will be in person – online/remote versions will not be accepted.
Types of Events
We welcome three types of contributions: traditional workshops, interactive events, and tutorials.
Traditional workshops typically match the topics and challenges of the general call for papers to the main conference. In a traditional workshop, the organizers may consider a program involving one or more invited talks and presentations of accepted papers around a certain theme.
We encourage workshops focusing on emerging topics and applications, open research questions and challenges, and broader topics that interest a wider community. In addition, we also encourage workshops with previous editions in HHAI, which could attract communities that have been working in the same research area for some years.
In the spirit of reflection and community-building, we invite academics from all disciplines and people representing different communities of practice (including journalism, advocacy, activism, education, art, law, and policy) to contribute creative and reflective events related to HHAI.
The format for these events is flexible. Alternative formats include but are not limited to:
- Lightning Talks
Short, time-limited presentations, usually lasting 5-10 minutes, where speakers quickly share key ideas or insights on a topic. They are designed to be concise and engaging, often used in conferences or workshops to cover a wide range of topics quickly. - Debates or Rump Sessions
Informal, open-ended discussions where participants debate topics, share ideas, or discuss unresolved issues in a less structured format than formal sessions. Often, these discussions are lively and allow for spontaneous, free-flowing conversation; - Unconference
A participant-driven, informal conference where attendees propose and lead sessions or discussions on topics of interest. Unlike traditional conferences with pre-scheduled agendas, an unconference allows for flexible, spontaneous collaboration and open sharing of ideas. - Open space or world cafe sessions
Facilitative group discussion formats where participants engage in collaborative conversations on topics of mutual interest. In “Open Space”, attendees create their own agenda and move between discussions freely, while in “World Café”, small groups rotate between tables, sharing ideas in a structured, conversational environment. Both aim to foster open dialogue and collective problem-solving. - Interactive Workshop
A hands-on, participatory session where attendees actively engage in activities, exercises, or discussions to learn and apply new skills or knowledge. The focus is on collaboration, practice, and direct involvement rather than passive listening. - Competitions
Competitions serve as a powerful tool for encouraging researchers to engage in discussions, exchange knowledge, and advance the development and assessment of theories and practices in hybrid intelligence systems. By introducing challenging competitions to the HHAI community, competition organizers can help push the state-of-the-art in specific fields and address problems of practical significance.
Unlike the workshops and interactive events, tutorials are intended for reasonably well-established topics. However, considering that HHAI is an emerging research topic, we particularly welcome tutorials that connect well-established topics in AI and other disciplines to HHAI topics. We encourage tutorials to be interactive to engage the audience.
Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives:
- Introduce novices to major topics of HHAI research;
- Survey a mature area of HHAI research or practice;
- Motivate and explain HHAI topic of emerging importance;
- Present a novel synthesis combining distinct HHAI research lines;
- Discuss/showcase technological resources of value for the HHAI research community;
- Introduce HHAI audiences to an external topic that can motivate, use, or be useful to HHAI research.
Important Dates
Workshop and tutorial proposals due: January 31, 2025
Proposal acceptance notification: February 7, 2025
Deadline for announcing the Call for Contributions to the workshops and tutorials: February 14, 2025
Recommended deadline for submissions to the workshops and tutorials: April 11, 2025
Recommended deadline for notifications on the submissions: May 2, 2025
Workshops and tutorials (Pisa, Italy): June 9-10, 2025
Main conference (Pisa, Italy): June 11-13, 2025
All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth).
Submission Guidelines
Your proposal should not exceed 8 pages (excluding references) in the IOS format and must include the following information:
- Title and abstract of the workshop or the tutorial.
- Name, affiliation, and short bio of each organizer.
- We recommend at least two organizers who are knowledgeable in the field but have complementary expertise.
- In addition to the main organizers, workshops can employ additional organizations, e.g., a program committee for evaluating the contributions.
- The topics and issues on which the workshop or the tutorial will focus.
- The intended workshop or tutorial duration (two hours, half-day, full-day event, two-day event).
- A link to the prior iteration of this workshop or tutorial, if applicable.
- You can also discuss other closely related workshops.
- A brief description of the workshop or tutorial format, e.g., the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion.
- The targeted audience size.
- A brief description of your plan to attract people to your workshop
- Special requirements, such as equipment, if any.
- Include a note if you have any special requirements for your session that are not addressed elsewhere.
- Supporting material, if any.
If you have additional materials supporting your proposal, such as a video example of the facilitation, a website, or written workbooks, you can also include that in your proposal.
Proposals must be submitted via Easychair.
Evaluation Criteria
- Connection to and relevance for the objectives of the HHAI conference and the objectives listed in this particular call.
- Scientific quality: The potential of the proposal to generate stimulating discussions and useful results about scientific problems related to HHAI
- Clarity, coherence, and comprehensiveness of the plan
- Diversity and inclusion: Thoughtfulness in the approach detailed to ensure engagement and participation of a broad audience. Diversity in backgrounds of the workshop organizers and intended presenters/contributors.
Workshop and Tutorial Proceedings
We plan to collect and compile a collected volume of HHAI 2025 Workshop and Tutorial proceedings under the CEUR-WS umbrella after the conference, which, while not mandatory, we encourage workshops to contribute to. For this reason, we encourage the interested workshop and tutorial organizers to read the CEUR-WS guidelines carefully and to collect submissions in an adequate format.
Workshop Chairs
Giulio Rossetti (ISTI – National Research Council of Italy)
Davide Dell’Anna (University of Utrecht)
Gizem Gezici (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Tutorial Chairs
Letizia Milli (University of Pisa)
Alistair Knott (Victoria University Wellington)
For any questions, please contact the workshop and tutorials chairs via workshop@hhai-conference.org .