Call for Papers

SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025
Fifth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE)
Co-located with the 30th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025
Cagliari, Italy

SOCIALIZE WORKSHOP:
March 24, 2025
http://socialize2025.di.unito.it/

ACM IUI 2025:
March 24-27, 2025
https://iui.acm.org/2025/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 15, 2025
Authors notification: January 20, 2025
Camera-ready: March 1, 2025
Workshop date: March 24, 2025

OVERVIEW

The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all interested in developing interactive techniques, including social robots, that can help promote social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants).

TOPICS

The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to):

• Multi-cultural system design;
• Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems;
• Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC);
• Cultural and social influence in recommender systems;
• Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors;
• Inclusive recommender systems;
• Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media;
• Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different cultural and social backgrounds;
• Social-cultural integration and large language models;
• Cultural and social situation awareness;
• Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems;
• Human-robot interaction and adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups;
• Humanoid robots and social inclusion;
• Adaptation strategies for social human-robot interaction;
• Machine learning for social robots;
• Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social human-robot interaction;
• Social robots as conversational recommender systems;
• Social robots in the real world;
• Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder);
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion;
• Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups.

SUBMISSIONS

Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025) by January 15, 2024. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop.

The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2025 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3660/ for last year’s workshop proceedings).

• Paper template (single column): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
• Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html for more details).

For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at socialize2025@easychair.org.

ORGANIZATION

Berardina De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy
Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy
Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy
Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University, Italy