[visionlist] CFP: 1st NordiCHI workshop on "Human-Centered AI Support for Immersive Data Sensemaking"

Tue Jun 16 09:07:07 EDT 2026

Human-Centered AI Support for Immersive Data Sensemaking
Bringing together HCI, AI, visualization & cognitive science researchers
https://hcai4ids.github.io/hcai4ids-workshop/

@ NordiCHI 2026 | October 3 (Half day), 2026, Academill, Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland

Overview
Immersive analytics and extended reality (XR) environments are changing how people explore complex data, reason spatially, and collaborate around emerging patterns. At the same time, rapid advances in generative AI, adaptive interfaces, and multimodal sensing are creating new possibilities for AI systems to summarize, recommend, explain, annotate, simulate, and support decision-making during data sensemaking.

Despite this potential, the integration of human-centered AI into immersive data sensemaking remains fragmented. Many systems demonstrate impressive technical capabilities, but less is known about how AI support should be designed so that it strengthens human judgment, preserves agency, communicates uncertainty, and supports trustworthy collaboration in complex analytical contexts.

This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from HCI, AI, visualization, immersive analytics, XR, and cognitive science to examine how AI can act as a meaningful collaborator in immersive data work. Rather than treating AI as an autonomous replacement for human reasoning, the workshop focuses on how people and AI systems can jointly interpret data, negotiate uncertainty, and build insight in interactive immersive environments.

Motivation and Goals
The workshop aims to establish a shared research space for human-centered AI support in immersive data sensemaking. Our goals are to:

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Clarify the design space for AI-supported immersive sensemaking, including when AI should guide, explain, adapt, challenge, or step back.
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Connect communities across HCI, AI, visualization, XR, cognitive science, and applied domains where complex data interpretation matters.
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Identify human-centered principles for systems that remain interpretable, accountable, adaptive, and respectful of user agency.
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Discuss evaluation approaches for trust, collaboration quality, cognitive load, insight generation, and user control in immersive human-AI workflows.
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Develop a shared research agenda that outlines open challenges, promising methods, and opportunities for future collaboration.

Focus Areas
The workshop will focus on conceptual, design, technical, and evaluation challenges in HCAI-supported immersive data sensemaking, including:

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Human-AI collaboration in immersive sensemaking: roles, initiative, agency, and interaction patterns between users, groups, and AI systems.
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AI-supported visual analytics: explanation, recommendation, summarization, annotation, and uncertainty communication in immersive data environments.
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Multimodal and adaptive interaction: use of speech, gesture, gaze, physiological signals, and interaction traces to support context-aware AI assistance.
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Trust, ethics, and user control: responsible approaches to transparency, privacy, calibration, accessibility, and human oversight.
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Methods and applications: evaluation frameworks, design guidelines, prototypes, and domain cases where immersive human-AI sensemaking can create value.

The workshop will combine short participant presentations, theme-based group discussions, and synthesis activities. Outcomes will include a shared overview of key challenges and research directions, with the aim of supporting future collaborations and a follow-up synthesis article.

Submission Deadline
We invite extended abstracts for the HCAI4IDS workshop at NordiCHI 2026. The submission and workshop dates are listed below.

Submission Deadline - August 5, 2026
Submit extended abstracts (2-4 pages in ACM double-column format)
Notification of Acceptance - August 11, 2026
Authors notified of acceptance decisions
Camera-Ready Deadline - August 21, 2026
Submit final camera-ready versions of accepted abstracts
Workshop Date - October 3, 2026
HCAI4IDS Workshop at NordiCHI 2026
All submission deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Dates are preliminary and will be updated if the conference schedule changes.

Call for Contributions (https://hcai4ids.github.io/hcai4ids-workshop/call-for-participation.html)
We welcome submissions from research students, academics, and industry practitioners whose work relates to Human-Centered AI for Immersive Data Sensemaking (HCAI4IDS). This call intentionally welcomes a broad range of perspectives to encourage exploration of the diverse ways that people and AI can jointly make sense of data in immersive environments.
Contributions may present completed research, work in progress, emerging ideas, or critical perspectives in forms of applications, theoretical discussions, prototypes, and system designs. The areas below serve as a starting point rather than a limitation on relevant work.
Example Contributions

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Design perspectives of HCAI4IDS: How do we design to support joint immersive data sensemaking for single or multiple users and AI agents in shared immersive spaces?
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Theoretical HCAI guidelines in IDS: How can we develop design guidelines for different levels and forms of AI integration?
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Multimodal human-AI understanding: How can speech, gesture, gaze, and other multimodal techniques help systems understand users' emotions, intentions, and analytical context?
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Adaptive AI collaborators: How can AI systems be adapted and personalized to support different stakeholders, user groups, and user experiences?
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Initiative and agency: When should AI lead, follow, challenge, or step back, and how should control shift between users and systems?
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Trust calibration: How can immersive systems support calibrated rather than amplified trust, helping users align reliance with actual AI reliability?
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New HCAI4IDS applications: What new scenarios and application domains can benefit from HCAI-integrated immersive data sensemaking?
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Evaluation approaches: How should we evaluate HCAI-supported immersive data sensemaking systems and experiences?

For questions please contact: organizers.hcai4ids at gmail.com<mailto:organizers.hcai4ids at gmail.com>

Organizers
Veronica Sundstedt, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Chaoming Wang, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Ilir Jusufi, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Christoffer Johansson, HealthyGaming / AESF
Ka-i Ip, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

[BTH]
Veronica Sundstedt
Professor

Blekinge Institute of Technology
J3220/Department of Computer Science
371 79 Karlskrona
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+46 (0)455-38 58 50
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Principal Investigator (PI) - Human-Centered Intelligent Realities (HINTS<https://www.bth.se/hints>)
Program Manager - Civilingenjör i spel- och programvaruteknik / Civilingenjör i spelteknik<https://www.bth.se/utbildning/program/civilingenjor-i-spelteknik-300-hp>
Program Manager - Master’s Programme in Computer Science - XR and Intelligent Interactive Systems (Starting HT27<https://www.bth.se/utbildning/program/masterprogram-i-datavetenskap---xr-och-intelligenta-interaktiva-system-120-hp?occasion=042f8455-276c-11f1-9f39-8363ccc44515>)

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