Winter into Spring Doctoral School “Understanding, Controlling, and Designing human-AI interactions”

Winter into Spring Doctoral School
“Understanding, Controlling, and Designing human-AI interactions”

March 24-26, 2025, in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany

As AI systems increasingly influence high-risk contexts in areas such as healthcare, HR, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure, many discussions about the ethical and human-centered design of those systems center around the topics of understandability and controllability. This workshop offers a platform for networking, collaboration building, and topical exchange for early-career researchers (PhD, PostDocs, Junior Research group leaders) working on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of work and organizational psychology/human factors/management and computer science, likely augmented with philosophical, ethical, and legal perspectives.

Why attend?

• Get feedback on your research: The workshop offers an opportunity to engage with other ECRs and with the keynote speakers from diverse backgrounds. You will have the chance to exchange ideas and receive feedback on your work.
• Find collaborators: There will be time dedicated to work on research ideas and collaboration with your peers to tackle open research questions.
• Embrace the complexity: This workshop aims to highlight the complexity of perspectives in research on human-AI interaction and tries to let participants reflect on the interdisciplinary perspectives of their research.

Example Key Topics:

• Explainability, Transparency, and Understandability of AI
• Controllability, Responsibility, and Accountability in relation to AI
• Human Oversight of AI-based systems
• Work Design and AI
• Organizational Behavior and AI
• Tradeoffs in the design of AI-based systems
• Ethical implications of using AI
• The intersection between emerging legislation and human-AI research

Is this workshop something for me?

This workshop is ideal for PhD students and early-career researchers who are:

• Working on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of work and organizational psychology/human factors/management and computer science
• Interested in the topics of XAI, human control, human oversight, work design and related topics.
• Eager to network with peers and experts in the field, share research ideas, and engage in collaborative problem-solving around the critical issues of AI transparency and human oversight.

Workshop Details

• Keynotes: There will be four keynotes by renowned experts in the area of human-AI interaction. Up to now, we can confirm a keynote by Zana Buçinca (Harvard) and by Johann Laux (Oxford Internet Institute). We are also in discussion with Hila Lifshitz (Warwick) and Elena Glassman (Harvard).
• Pitch sessions: In these sessions, you will present your work in short talks. You will receive feedback from your peers, the organizers and the keynote speakers.
• Joint project workout sessions: In these sessions, you will have the opportunity to develop cooperation ideas with your peers. On the last day of the workshop, there will be the opportunity to present these ideas and receive feedback.

Participation

Participation is free of charge - you will only need funding for the travel and accommodation in Freiburg.

If you are interested in participating, please submit a max. 500 words Abstract on the research / topic / idea / position that you want to present during a short pitch talk in the workshop until the 16th of December 2024 via the following online form: https://forms.gle/cG7d7vBUdfcukEco6

We will select the submitted ideas based on fit to the workshop ideas. If there are more submissions than are free slots during the workshop, we will select on a first come first served basis.