[visionlist] IJCAI-ECAI 2026 (Special Track) / Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence. Bremen, Germany

[Mehul Bhatt]

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IJCAI-ECAI 2026  /  Call for papers

SPECIAL TRACK ON:

Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Contours and Challenges of Next-Generation AI Research and Applications

We invite submissions for the special track on Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (HAI) of the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence  IJCAI-ECAI 2026, scheduled to take place in Bremen, Germany, from August 15 to 21, 2026. Since its founding in 1969, IJCAI has been the premier conference for the global AI community, fostering the exchange of groundbreaking advancements and achievements in AI research. This year, it once again is organised jointly with the European Artificial Intelligence Association as IJCAI-ECAI 2026.

The HAI special track aims to explore the multidisciplinary scientific contours and challenges of next-generation artificial intelligence research and its applications in real-world contexts. The special track welcomes and aims to inspire a multifaceted perspective on approaching next-generation Human-Centric AI Research primarily, but not exclusively, at the confluence of formal, computational, and cognitive aspects on the one hand, and social, cultural, and ethico-legal dimensions influencing AI development and their application on the other hand. Integrative research efforts combining computational methods with behavioural or empirical techniques aimed at exploiting synergies in the study of artificial and human intelligence are also welcome, as long as the technical novelty from the viewpoint of AI method development is clearly articulated and evaluated, and constitutes the key aspect of the submitted work.

Details  /  https://2026.ijcai.org/ijcai-ecai-2026-call-for-papers-human-centred-ai/


Focus in 2026  /  AI, Human Cognition, and Embodied Interaction

The 2026 edition of the special track focusses (primarily but not exclusively) on the role of `Human Cognition’ and `Embodied (Multimodal) Interaction’ in diverse naturalistic settings for the design and development of next-generation foundational methods and techniques in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. By `Humans’ and `Human Cognition’, entailed are human behaviours, preferences and expectations, decision-making, multimodal interaction modalities, problem-solving skills (etc) as relevant from perspectives such as:  

(a)  Human perception, interaction, and cognition; 
(b)  Society and culture; 
(c)  Ethics and emerging AI-related regulatory compliance; and 
(d)  Standardization of AI/ML techniques from the viewpoint of responsible AI considerations. 

The special track will particularly prioritise research focussed on human-behavioural studies involving quantitative and/or qualitative empirical analyses of human-behaviour in naturalistic settings as a means to systematically influence the design of human-centred AI methods. Also in focus are specific technical implications for the (human-centric) design of AI in applications relevant to, for instance, 

(1)  Interactive human assistance and collaborative autonomy in everyday life and professional work contexts (e.g., autonomous and assisted driving, human-robot collaboration, social interaction between human and robots); 
(2)  Clinical or medical practice (e.g., involving translational cognitive diagnosis, rehabilitation, multimodal neurocognitive imaging, neuroethics); 
(3)  Collaborative problem-solving for engineering design synthesis, discovery, diagnostics, creativity etc. (e.g. architecture design, media design); 
(4)  Creative computing (e.g., AI-driven digital visuo-auditory media synthesis in entertainment); 
(5)  Digital Media (e.g., disinformation and fake news mitigation, AI in education);  

The above application areas are merely indicative, and by no means exhaustive. We welcome all systematically investigated AI application contexts that have not been explicitly mentioned in this call.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: January 12, 2026
Author information and Full paper submission deadline (including Appendix and resubmission information): January 19, 2026
Paper notification: April 29, 2026
Conference: Saturday, August 15 to Friday, August 21, 2026.

(all times are 23:59 Anywhere On Earth, UTC-12)



SUBMISSION POLICY AND GUIDELINES

Please consult the detailed call for papers posted online on the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 conference website here:  

In particular, please consult the policies pertaining Number of submissions allowed, Primary Paper Initiative (new in 2026), Formatting Guidelines, Confidentiality, Ethic Policy, and Reproducibility and FAIR considerations. We advise that authors consult the online paper submission system ahead of time to check for specific submission requirements.



TRACK CHAIR 

Mehul Bhatt
Örebro University, Sweden., CoDesign Lab EU
Contact:  human-centred-ai at 2026.ijcai.org <mailto:human-centred-ai at 2026.ijcai.org>
**Please direct all special track related queries exclusively to the special track email listed above**

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