Call for Papers
CUI @CHI: Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces workshop at ACM CHI 2022
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 30 – May 6, 2022 [Workshop date TBD]
New Orleans, LA [plus online and hybrid]
Workshop: https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/workshops/CHI2022/
CHI 2022: https://chi2022.acm.org/
Submission deadline: February 24th, 2022
CUI @CHI: Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces workshop at the ACM CHI 2022 conference will consolidate ethics-related research of the past and set the agenda for future CUI research on ethics going forward. This builds on previous CUI workshops exploring theories and methods, grand challenges and future design perspectives, and collaborative interactions. To push ahead with a multidisciplinary perspective on ethics in CUIs, we will be:
- Looking back: Expand on discussions on ethics specifically on CUIs and put together existing, disparate views that implicitly relate to ethics in CUI research thus far.
- Looking forward: Explore in what ways information disclosure between CUIs and humans should follow transparent communication methods while being alert to vulnerable and under-served populations that may, e.g., over-disclose personal information or misunderstand CUIs’ transparency cues.
- Community building: Enlarge our community by consulting philosophers, designers, and engineers to illuminate the next steps on the ethics research of CUI s.
TOPICS
In what ways can we advance our research on conversational user interfaces (CUIs) by including considerations on ethics? As CUIs, like Amazon Alexa or chatbots, become commonplace, discussions on how they can be designed in an ethical manner or how they change our views on ethics of technology should be topics we engage with as a community. Authors are invited to submit position papers to the CHI 2022 workshop on the Ethics of CUIs. We aim for including diverse disciplines, including, but not limited to, philosophy, design, and engineering. Additionally, we welcome perspectives on three topics of conversational disclosure, transparency, and vulnerable or under-served populations, among other relevant topics. Papers can address how conversational systems and users disclose personally relevant information, how systems can be conversationally transparent about their limits and abilities, as well as how we must address diverse groups of users that are potentially vulnerable or under-served, e.g., due to socio-economic status or disability. Potential submissions can look at other areas that are related, such as morally relevant interactions with conversational partners, e.g., treating CUIs fairly as humans when this does not matter for things.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We seek position papers that are 3 to 6 pages long (including references), submitted in the CHI Extended Abstract format, and describe work or discussion related to the position paper ethics topics outlined above. Admittance to the workshop will be based on the overall quality, novelty, and relevance of the submission, and the CUI community’s goals of bringing together a set of presenters that can represent the diverse and multidisciplinary facets of philosophy, design, and engineering required for the design of CUIs. We will pay particular attention to under-served regions or universities, for our inclusive community will benefit from this, especially concerning the ethics of CUIs. Papers should be submitted to m.lee@tue.nl by February 24th, 2022. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop.
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be posted to the workshop website ahead of the workshop date and serve as the basis of presentations and discussion at the workshop. For examples of papers that are acceptable for the workshop, please see the websites for past CHI workshops in 2021 and 2020. All accepted workshop papers will also be invited to submit to the CUI ’22 conference taking place in Glasgow, Scotland.
ORGANIZERS
- Minha Lee: Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology
- Jaisie Sin: PhD candidate at the Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto
- Guy Laban: PhD candidate at the school of Psychology and Neuroscience of the University of Glasgow
- Matthias Kraus: Research assistant at the Dialogue Systems Group at Ulm University in Germany
- Leigh Clark: Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at the Computational Foundry in Swansea University
- Martin Porcheron: Lecturer in the Computational Foundry at Swansea University
- Benjamin R. Cowan: Associate Professor at University College Dublin’s School of Information & Communication Studies
- Asbjørn Følstad: Senior research scientist at SINTEF
- Cosmin Munteanu: Assistant Professor at the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Director of the Technologies for Ageing Gracefully lab
- Heloisa Candello: Interaction designer and a research scientist at the IBM Research, Brazil
Please direct all questions to m.lee@tue.nl.
More info is on our website: https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/workshops/CHI2022/.
Thank you!
Best,
Minha
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