Call for Papers:

Human-Centered Interactive Multimodal AI Systems (HIMAS) Workshop
At ACM IUI 2027: 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
February 8-11, 2027
Helsinki, Finland
Workshop: https://himas-workshop.com/
Conference: https://iui.acm.org/2027/

Deadline for submissions: November 9, 2026

We invite you to join a full-day workshop on Human-Centered Interactive Multimodal AI Systems (HIMAS) at ACM IUI 2027 in February 2027.

As AI models are increasingly able to handle multimodal data, effectively deploying these models in real-world settings requires building interactive systems that bridge the gap between multimodal AI and the users.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from multimedia analytics, human-computer interaction, information visualization, and multimodal AI, alongside domain experts, to identify shared challenges and shape a research agenda for the future of HIMAS.

Specifically, we are interested in the following themes:

• Integrating multimodal AI with interactive interfaces: Moving beyond text-only chat toward interfaces that combine speech, touch, sketches, gestures, and visualizations to communicate with and steer multimodal AI.
• Designing HIMAS for effective human-AI collaboration: Supporting mixed-initiative interaction, shared context, and user agency – so people can inspect, verify, and correct how multimodal systems reason.
• Adapting and generalizing HIMAS across domains: Understanding which design and evaluation approaches transfer across application areas – and which must be specialized to the domain.

The workshop will be in the mini-conference format with paper presentations, panel discussion, interactive demos, and group discussion. We are soliciting the following:

• Position papers: Describe a future vision for HIMAS and articulate open challenges the community should tackle.
• Research papers: Provide initial understanding of HIMAS through empirical or conceptual work.
• Demos and corresponding papers: Show working prototypes of interactive multimodal AI systems in an interactive afternoon session, as well as documenting the design process and its technical details in a short paper.

Below are the important Dates (AoE timezone):

• Submission deadline: November 9, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: December 7, 2026
• Camera-ready: December 21, 2026

The submission processes will be managed through OpenReview (the link will be on our website https://himas-workshop.com/). The submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee. Each submission will receive at least two reviews. The review process is single-blind.

Accepted papers will be published as part of the joint CEUR IUI workshop proceedings. Please refer to https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html for information about how to prepare the paper submission. Below we list some important details:

• Use the CEURART template for preparing for the submissions. You can download the template using this link or you can use the Overleaf online template. The CEURART template contains specific instructions on certain mandatory elements such as the Declaration on Generative AI. Make sure that all paper PDFs follow the template’s instructions.
• We accept short papers (8 to 9 pages) and regular papers (10 pages). These page numbers exclude references.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper. Registration is subject to the terms and conditions of the IUI conference.

Organization:

• Gonçalo Marcelino, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Melika Ayoughi, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Sarah Binta Alam Shoilee, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Omar Shahbaz Khan, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Andrea Mauri, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
• Yen-Chia Hsu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Maximilian T. Fischer, University of Konstanz, Germany
• Senthil Chandrasegaran, TU Delft, The Netherlands
• Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Contact (please email all of the following three contacts):

• Gonçalo Marcelino – [email protected]
• Melika Ayoughi – [email protected]
• Yen-Chia Hsu – [email protected]