Dear colleagues,

we are delighted to announce our minitrack on “Collaboration with Cognitive Assistants and AI” and are looking forward to your submissions.

Please find the CfP attached. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Kind regards,

Eva Bittner

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CALL FOR PAPERS: HICSS54 “Collaboration with Cognitive Assistants and AI” Minitrack (in “Collaboration Systems and Technologies” Track) 

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MINITRACK DESCRIPTION

In the field of information systems, as well as in the computer science domain, artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes one of the most rapidly growing streams of research. This is mainly due to the fact that technological innovations enable the development of productive AI solutions (e.g. inherent in cognitive assistants) that provide compelling benefits in various fields of application.

However, despite the recent advances, we are still far away from a strong or general AI comparable to a human intelligence, especially when it comes to intelligence across certain domains or tasks. Therefore, the importance of the engagement of humans into the decision process of AI systems is widely acknowledged in research and practice. Although a considerable amount of exploration regarding such Human-AI-Collaboration has been conducted, the breadth and scope for dialogue and experimentation needs to be broadened. This minitrack aims to provide a place for such dialogue and support of a diverse community interested in taking the challenge further.

While all submissions should consider aspects of collaboration – the work of two or more knowledge sources (i.e. human and AI) towards a common goal -, we welcome all papers that present research in this area, independent of the centrality and strength of AI, the domain they address, and the methodology they apply.

Topics to be discussed in this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Generalizable models, methodologies and theories to design and facilitate Human-AI-Collaboration
• Exemplary use cases in various fields of application that refer to
  • collaborative work practices, in which a human actor collaborates with AI
  • collaborative work practices, in which AI facilitates human collaboration
• Boundaries and Challenges of Human-AI-Collaboration
• Approaches for a new division of labor (including hand-offs) in references to the task structure and capabilities of AI and humans
• Decision models for deciding, whether, when and how to access human input
• Strategies to prevent mistakes and shortcomings of individual collaborators and the noise in the contributions of individual workers
• Effectiveness of Human-AI-Collaboration (e.g. effectiveness of different training strategies in improving the performance of workers for accomplishing complex tasks)
• Orchestration of learning (of the AI, from the AI, with the AI), e.g. human-in-the-loop learning
• Design of incentive structures for Human-AI-Collaboration
• Facilitation of continuous engagement in Human-AI-Collaboration
• User reactions when confronted with an AI collaborator
• Approaches for increasing user acceptance of collaboration systems with AI components
• Prototypes of Human-AI-Collaboration in various application domains (e.g. tutoring, service, etc.)
• Legal aspects, usability, explainability or transparency of Human-AI-Collaboration
• Ethical and philosophical examinations of the common goal in Human-AI-collaboration

ORGANIZERS

Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner, University of Hamburg
bittner@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

Dr. Philipp Alexander Ebel, University of St. Gallen
philipp.ebel@unisg.ch

Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß, University of Kassel
oeste-reiss@uni-kassel.de

Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner, University of Kassel
soellner@uni-kassel.de

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Since 1968, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) has been known worldwide as the longest-standing working scientific conferences in Information Technology Management. HICSS provides a highly interactive working environment for top scholars from academia and the industry from over 60 countries to exchange ideas in various areas of information, computer, and system sciences. According to Microsoft Academic, HICSS ranks the 36th in terms of citations among 4,444 conferences in all fields worldwide.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS:

Presented papers will be included in the Proceedings of HICSS-54

IMPORTANT DATES:

April 20, 2020: Paper submission opens

June 15, 2020:  Paper Submission Deadline (11:59 pm HST)

August 17, 2020:  Notification of Acceptance/Rejection

September 22, 2020: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication

October 1, 2020: Deadline for at least one author of to register for HICSS-54

January 5-8, 2021: Paper presentations

AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS:

https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/

LINK TO MINITRACK:

https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/collaboration-systems-and-technologies/#collaboration-with-cognitive-assistants-and-ai-minitrack

 

 

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Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner

Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. sozio-technische Systemgestaltung
Fachbereich Informatik
Universität Hamburg

Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30

22527 Hamburg

Tel.: +49 40 42883-2409

www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/inst/ab/wists