Welcome to HHAI 2026!
Workshops and the doctoral consortium will take place on Monday and Tuesday, July 6 and 7.
The main conference and keynotes will take place from Wednesday to Friday (July 8-10) as a single-track conference in VUB Building I Room I.2.03, with coffee breaks and lunches provided in I.0.Atrium.
Conference Program Overview
Workshops and Doctoral Consortium
A detailed program is available for the workshops and the Doctoral Consortium.
Main conference - Wednesday (July 8)
Session 1a – Reflections on HHAI
Chair: Ilaria Tiddi
| Blue Sky | Characterising HHAI as a Research Field – A Scoping Review of HHAI Conference Papers by Stephanie Kramer, Michel Oey, Ilaria Tiddi, Adam Dahlgren |
| Blue Sky | Meta‑Evaluation for Hybrid Human-AI Systems by Antonia Azzini, Ilaria Baroni and Irene Celino |
Session 1b – LLMs in society
Chair: Nuwan Attygalle
| Full | The Synthetic Persona Fallacy in HCI-Q Methodology by Lucas Anastasiou and Anna De Liddo |
| Full | Logic Programming for Developing a Real-Time Interactive Explainable Naval Decision Support System by Tarek El-Mihoub, Christoph Tholen, Lars Nolle and Frederic Stahl |
| Full | The Democratic Vacuum in AI Governance: Can Ethics Fill the Gap? by Mehmet Unver |
| Full | Learning and Reasoning for Legal AI via Intelligent Multi-Model Routing with a Smart Evaluation Layer by Aditya Mukhopadhyay, Sara Ghane and Marco Di Gennaro |
| Full | Same Answers, Different Perception: Gender Effects in Metahuman AI Tutors for Physics Education by Giulia Paludo, Leonardo Mogianesi and Francesco Rasponi |
| Full | RecBayes: Scalable Ad Hoc Teamwork Without Privileged Information by João G. Ribeiro, Yaniv Oren, Alberto Sardinha, Matthijs Spaan and Francisco S. Melo |
Session 2 – Cognition and AI
Chair: Raymond Bond
| Blue Sky | An Intellectual Lineage of Hybrid Intelligence: Emergence in Human-AI Systems by Chiara Natali |
| Working | Human-AI Coevolution in Strategy: Algorithmic Emergence and Governance Mediation by Amye Melton, Emily Lean, Matthew Farrell and John Volker |
| Full | Including the Cost of Irreducible Uncertainty in the Policy Compression Framework by Alvaro Garrido-Perez, Amrapali Pednekar, Pieter Simoens and Yara Khaluf |
| Full | The Impact of AI Usage and Informativeness on Skill Development in Logical Reasoning by Shang Wu, Hongyu Yao, Catarina Belem, Shuyuan Fu, Mark Steyvers and Padhraic Smyth |
| Full | Gender Bias in Evaluations of Human and AI Managers by Hao Cui and Taha Yasseri |
Main conference - Thursday (July 9)
Session 3 – Generative AI and Human-AI Collaboration
Chair: Chiara Natali
| Full | Human-AI Collaboration for Estimating Scientific Replicability by Tatiana Chakravorti, Robbie Fraleigh, Timothy Fritton, Christopher Griffin, Vaibhav Singh, Sai Koneru, C. Lee Giles, David Pennock, Anthony Kwasnica and Sarah Rajtmajer |
| Blue Sky | Generative Negotiation for Creative Agreements in Multi-Agent Systems by Shun Okuhara and Takayuki Ito |
| Blue Sky | Scaffolding the Scaffold: Co-Evolving Human-Centered Boundaries for GenAI in Education by Jarne Thys, Yarne Dirkx, Davy Vanacken and Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz |
| Full | Reliable Vibe Coding: The Human-AI Context Gap in Software Development by Dov Te’Eni and Adi Katz |
| Blue Sky | When AI Solves the Wrong Problems: Sociotechnical Dissociation in Designing Human-AI Combination by Tommaso Turchi, Ben Wilson, Matt Roach, Alan Dix and Peter Daish |
| Full | A Semantic Model to Represent Human–AI Collaboration by Francesca Urgese, Margherita Martorana, Ilaria Tiddi, Stefan Schlobach and Victor de Boer |
| Full | Designing Synthetic Work Relationships: An Exploratory Study of Agentic AI Roles, Cognitive Load, and Psychological Need Satisfaction by Seyyid A. Ciftci |
| Blue Sky | AI as Equalizer or Amplifier? Task Complexity as the Moderating Factor for Human Expertise in Hybrid Intelligence Systems by Tao An |
Session 4 – Trust, Transparancy and LLMs (part 1)
Chair: Myrthe Tielman
| Working | Human-Robot Ethical Collaboration through Adaptive Business Processes by Sadaf Hussain Janjua, Hina Shahid, Sara Pettinari, Gianluca Filippone, Martina De Sanctis and Paola Inverardi |
| Blue Sky | LLM-enabled Social Agents by Burak Karaduman, Moharram Challenger and Önder Gürcan |
| Working | Enshittification of Algorithmic Recommendation: An Evolutionary Model of Platform-Creator Dynamics by Eladio Montero-Porras, Annelien Smets and Tom Lenaerts |
| Working | Humanwashing – It Should Leave You Feeling Dirty by Ben Wilson, Matimba Swana, Peter Winter and Matt Roach |
| Extended | Formalising Trust as Reduced Monitoring in Human–AI by Cedric Perret, The Anh Han, Elias Fernández Domingos, Theodor Cimpeanu and Simon Powers |
| Working | Gaze-Informed VLM Agents with Symbolic Knowledge for VR Art Experiences by Delaram Javdani Rikhtehgar, Tessa Limbeek and Shenghui Wang |
| Working | Integrating Large Language Models with Frame-Based Representations for Indigenous Knowledge by Virginia Dignum and Frank Dignum |
Session 5 – Neurosymbolic AI
Chair: Stefan Schlobach
| Blue Sky | FLODO: A Protocol for Collaborative Causal Discovery by Matteo Gregorini and André Meyer-Vitali |
| Full | Layer-Appropriate Augmentation for Human-AI Risk Assessment: Integrating Case-Based Reasoning with Fuzzy Calibration by Gareth Mcconomy, Raymond Bond, David Glass, Jun Lui and Holly Toner |
| Full | Hybrid-Human Grounded Theory with Multi-Step Epistemic Continuity by Mattias Brännström, Themis Dimitra Xanthopoulou and Andreas Brännström |
| Blue Sky | Towards a methodological framework to characterize Large Language Models’ understanding and reasoning. by Clément Arlotti |
Main conference - Friday (July 10)
Session 6 – AI Assistance and Health-Care Applications
Chair: Joost Vennekens
| Extended | Eight Dimensions of Human-Machine Combination by Ben Wilson, Chiara Natali, Matt Roach, Darren Scott, Alma Rahat, David Rawlinson and Federico Cabitza |
| Working | Knowledge-driven Adaptive Interaction in a Healthcare Dialogue Agent by Efthymios Grigorakis, Shihan Wang and Maaike de Boer |
| Working | Actionable Real-Time Modeling of Surgical Team Dynamics via Time-Expanded Interaction Graphs by Vincenzo Marco De Luca, Antonio Longa, Giovanna Varni and Andrea Passerini |
| Full | Seeking Information with RAG-Assistants: Does Model Size Matter in Human-AI Collaborations? by Lennard Froma, Tom Kouwenhoven, Maaike De Boer, Catholijn Jonker and Max Van Duijn |
| Blue Sky | Knowledge Affordances for Hybrid Human-AI Information Seeking by Irene Celino |
Session 7 – Trust, Transparancy and LLMs (part 2)
Chair: Gizem Gezici
| Extended | fRAme: an evaluation framework for human augmentation or replacement by autonomous intelligent systems by Costanza Alfieri, Martina De Sanctis, Donatella Donati and Paola Inverardi |
| Full | Harvesting Trust Indicators: A Method for Evaluating Trustworthiness of RAG-Driven Advice by Daan Di Scala and Maaike de Boer |
| Full | From Historical Tabular Image to Knowledge Graphs: A Provenance-Aware Modular Pipeline by Sarah Binta Alam Shoilee, Victor de Boer, Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Susan Legêne |
| Full | Risk Management for Agentic AI: A Qualitative Threshold for Identifying Systems with Augmented Algorithmic Agency. by Imane Hmiddou, Marco Billi, Yasaman Yousefi, Beatrice Ferrigno, Cecilia Di Florio and Antonino Rotolo |
Posters and Demos
Note: the recommended size for posters is A0.
Session: July 8, 16:00-17:00 and July 9, 10:00-11:00:
POSTERS
146 – Arash Khajeh, Vindula Jayawardana, Tatiana Lau, Luiza Santos and Kate Sieck – Generative Agent-Based Simulations of Workforce Wellbeing
148 – Minsi Song, Neil Sebire and Yvonne Rogers – Beyond the Algorithm: Designing AI for Real World Clinical Teamwork
149 – Ruud van Stiphout, Nattapong Thammasan, Ruben van Bergen, Tobias Teichmann and Santiago Gaitan – Digital Twins for Health Management: from Sensing to Actionable Insights
156 – Mandy Melissa Jane Wittens, Kristyna Sirka Kacafirkova, Shirley Elprama and An Jacobs – The Challenge of Designing for Meaningful & Effective Human Oversight in Rapidly Evolving Complex AI systems
158 – Maaike de Boer, Myrthe Tielman, Ilaria Tiddi, Victor de Boer, Davide Dell’Anna, Stefanie Kramer, Janin Koch, André Meyer-Vitali, Chiara Natali, Michel Oey, Janet Rafner, Jacob Sherson, Francesca Urgese, Michael van Bekkum and Thomas Schmid – Unifying Terminologies Toward a Shared HHAI Vocabulary
160 – Jiru Sun – Are Organizations Ready for Human-AI Collaboration? A Systematic Review of AI Maturity Models
163 – Senne Deproost, Mehrdad Asadi and Ann Nowe – Hierarchical Support Vector State Partitioning for Distilling Black Box Reinforcement Learning Policies
169 – Emmanuelle Mury – Modular Governance for Hybrid Human-AI Agency: A Cognitive Architecture for Shared Arbitration Over Time
173 – Jacob Sherson, Janet Rafner, Sune Bo, Bianka Szöllösi, Florent Vinchon, Paul-Arno Lamarque and Florian De Boni – Designing for Long-term Impact: A Hybrid Intelligence Case Study in AI-Assisted Mentalizing-Based Therapy
174 – Janet Rafner, Frederik Brosbøl Kjeldsen, Giulia Pauletto, Hans Sanderson and Jacob Sherson – Designing Hybrid Intelligence for ESG Tracking: Early Findings from Interviews and Prototype-Based Co-Design
DEMOS
140 – Paolo Speziali, Diederik M. Roijers, Ann Nowé and Mehrdad Asadi – WheelTailor: Collaborative Accessible Route Planner
165 – Lara Verheyen, Jonas Gillain, Arno Temmerman, Jamie D. Wright, Maxime Toquebiau, Liesbet de Vos, Katrien Beuls and Paul Van Eecke – Guess Who… In Robot Language?
Session: July 9, 16:00-17:00 and July 10, 10:00-11:00:
POSTERS
147 – Paolo Speziali, Mehrdad Asadi, Diederik M. Roijers and Ann Nowé – When Context Matters: Exceptional Model Mining for Pedestrian Route Choice
155 – Gabriel Hughes and Yvonne Rogers – Intrinsic Reward Drives Human-AI Complementarity
159 – Alvin Ismail and Seunghee Lee – Working Less, Thinking More: Hybrid Notetaking for Active Learning
161 – Anabela Cantiani – Using Generative AI to Reduce Self-Exclusion in the Labor Market
162 – Sébastien Meeùs, Susheel Nath and Karim Benyekhlef – SCAENA: A Courtroom Sandbox for Hybrid Human-AI Interaction in Justice
164 – Samarth Wal, Aaron Laycock, Yuka Spencer and Cade McCall – A Serious Game Paradigm to Evaluate Human Task Delegation Behavior to Autonomous Systems
171 – Hao Cui, Guillaume Falmagne and Taha Yasseri – Adaptive AI Influence Shapes Human-AI Collective Belief Dynamics
175 – Jacob Sherson, Frederik Brosbøl Kjeldsen, Janet Rafner, Manuel Rindle, Mille Berg and Yoed N. Kenett – Operationalizing Human Authorship in AI Systems: A Design Science Study of the FERC Framework
176 – Leyla Yang, Janet Rafner and Claire Stevenson – Collaborative Creative Story Generation with Peers vs Chatbots: A Pilot Study
177 – Janet Rafner, Ryan Q. Guloy, Eden W. Wen, Catherine M. Chiodo and Jacob Sherson – A Preliminary Study of Hybrid Intelligence, Social Listening, and Chatbot Feedback
DEMOS