NWISEd 2025 3rd Workshop on Co-Creating New Ways of Information Systems Education [September 10-11, 2025]
The NWISEd workshop series provides a dynamic forum for the presentation, discussion, and dissemination of innovative educational approaches in information systems, software engineering, and related fields. The workshop aims to bring together educators and practitioners to share experiences, best practices, and lessons learned in modern teaching methodologies – both in on-site and remote environments. It seeks to support and enhance teaching and learning experiences, ultimately fostering sustainable education. By identifying, refining, and promoting proven practices, it thus aims to transform them into everyday habits for educators, helping to bridge the gap between innovative concepts and their practical application. NWISEd 2025 Website
An AI Café @ ECIS - Co-Creating New Ways of Information Systems Education (NWISEd) [June 16, 2024]
In this workshop we aim to discuss and share proven best practices and lessons learned for the integration and use of different AI tools (e.g., AI tutoring, AI grading, AI student profiling, etc.) into modern teaching and learning settings. Following the ECIS 2024 motto “People First: Constructing Digital Futures Together” we are interested in examples of learner/teacher-centered AI tools and how they help support and shape students’ learning journeys. Workshop Website
NWISEd@ECIS Workshop on Co-Creating New Ways of Information Systems Education [June 13, 2023]
This one-day workshop aims at bringing together educators in information systems, software engineering and related fields to report on and discuss their experience with new ways of teaching, motivating students, and assessing knowledge both in on-site and off-site environments using innovative education tools, technologies and approaches. Workshop Website
CUI 2022 ACM In-cooperation Conference on Conversational User Interfaces [July 26-28, 2022]
There has been an increasing interest in language-based interactions with technology. Driven by the commercial success of intelligent personal assistant devices such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, the number of natural language and conversation-based interactions is growing in commercial settings. Following the successful inaugural ACM In-Cooperation conference in 2019 and the virtual conferences in 2020 and 2021, CUI 2022 aims to further develop a collaborative community around human-computer interaction issues in speech and language technology, with a specific interest in theory-based and applied scientific issues in the field of speech and text-based conversational user interfaces. Thus CUI 2022 further looks to bring together relevant communities (e.g., ISCA, ACM SIGCHI, CogSci, CHIIR), to publish, disseminate and showcase high-quality cutting-edge research related to the field, promote insight and debate in this exciting and essential discipline within language interfaces. CUI 2022 Website
MCiT Forum 2022 [June 1, 2022] -- ! Virtual !
The MCiT Forum is an online conference hosted by MCI's Master’s Program Management Communication and IT (MCiT). The event aims to bring together thought leaders and young professionals. We invite international companies to meet future graduates and provide insights into exciting MCiT research fields.
This year's topic is "Digital Business in Asia". In Asia, as elsewhere, the digital revolution is sweeping all industries: from retail and banking to manufacturing and transportation. The conference will highlight how companies in the Asia-Pacific region are tackling digital transformation! Event Website
CUI 2021 ACM In-cooperation Conference on Conversational User Interfaces [July 27-29, 2021] -- ! Virtual !
Following the successful ACM In-Cooperation CUI conferences in 2019 and 2020, CUI 2021 will be a hybrid conference with sessions online and in person in Bilbao, Spain. The conference will run from 27–29 July 2021. We plan to use the conference as a platform to further develop a collaborative community around human-computer interaction issues in speech and language technology, with a specific interest in theory-based and applied scientific issues in the field of speech and text-based conversational user interfaces. We are looking to bring together relevant communities (e.g. ISCA, ACM SIGCHI, CogSci) to publish, disseminate and showcase high-quality cutting-edge research related to the field, promote insight and debate in this interesting and important discipline within language interfaces. CUI 2021 Website
CUI@CHI: Let's Talk About CUIs - Putting Conversational User Interface Design Into Practice [May 8, 2021] -- ! Virtual !
This workshop comes at a time where research on CUI usability, design, and development is at an exponential growth. We are also seeing a large commercial push and demand for usable CUIs - many of which we’ve already seen the likes of, such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Siri. This workshop will be critical to the direction of the field, bringing together researchers, developers, designers, and industry practitioners to (1) identify the gaps between academia and industry in terms of methods, tools, and practices used in CUI design and development, and (2) identify key design challenges in the development of CUI devices, and particularly, the tools and practices which are key to the space of developing CUIs which are not yet in existence and require more research. Workshop Website | CHI Website | Workshop Description
CUI@IUI: Workshop on Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Intelligent Conversational User Interface Interactions [April 13, 2021] -- ! Virtual !
This workshop aims to bring together the Intelligent User Interface (IUI) and Conversational User Interface (CUI) communities to understand the theoretical and methodological challenges in designing, deploying and evaluating CUIs. Whilst the use of CUIs has continued to grow in recent years, significant challenges remain in creating established theoretical and methodological approaches for researching CUI interactions. These include assessing the impact of interface design on user behaviors and perceptions, developing design guidelines, understanding the role of personalization and issues around ethics and privacy. Workshop Website | IUI Website | Workshop Description
FFH 2020/21 Panel on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Escorting the Use of Technology [April 8, 2021] -- ! Virtual !
The panel lets researchers and practitioners report on their experiences and lessons learned from initiatives in digital transformation. To this end, the panel is not interested in the technological progress itself and how it may have improved business processes, but rather in the social aspects and how they have been handled. We want to learn about people’s fears, anxieties, rejections, and behavioral changes. We want to discuss the observed negative consequences of digital technology and how they may be avoided. We are not looking for blame but rather for an open discourse and discussion on how society may foster its influence on the penetration of digital technology. In doing so, we would like to bring forward ideas on how we can increase transparency in technological areas in which even the most basic understanding is often missing (e.g. AI), and how such may pave a path for more responsible digital innovation and transformation. Panel Description and Call for Abstracts
CUI 2020 ACM In-cooperation Conference on Conversational User Interfaces [July 22-24, 2020] -- ! Due to the ongoing situation around COVID-19 we have decided to hold this event virtually !
CUI 2020 is the 2nd annual International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, taking place in Bilbao, Spain. The aim of the conference is to be the premier interdisciplinary conference for researchers and practitioners across the world to discuss the latest in conversational user interface technology. There has been an increasing interest in language based interactions with technology. Through the commercial success of intelligent personal assistant devices such as Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant, to the growth of the use of chatbots in commercial settings, the number of natural language and conversation based interactions is growing. Although there is growth in this area, with much technical effort being applied and promoted in these areas (e.g. Interspeech, SIGDIAL), there is comparatively little promotion and exploration of important human-computer interaction and design based issues. This event, growing from successful workshops at both ACM CHI and ACM Mobile HCI, looks to develop an independent yet collaborative community with specific interest in theory based and applied scientific issues in the field of speech and text based conversational user interfaces. CUI 2020 Website
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CUI@CHI 2020 Workshop on Mapping Grand Challenges for the Conversational User Interface Community [April 25, 2020] -- ! Integrated into the CUI 2020 VIRTUAL International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 infections !
This workshop looks to gather researchers, designers and practitioners from a wide range of communities to discuss the need to build this critical mass and develop a truly multi-disciplinary Conversational User Interface (CUI) community. To do this we aim bring together some of the leading researchers in these fields, with an interest in CUI based HCI questions to map the work needed to develop the thematic grand challenges identified by recent CUI work. Workshop Website | CHI 2020 Website | Workshop Description
IUI 2020 Workshop on Conversational User Interfaces [March 17, 2020] -- ! Cancelled due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 infections !
This multidisciplinary workshop aims to tackle the significant gaps in theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and exploration of new paradigms within the research and design of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs). Such gaps include: the lack of validated design guidelines to help us improve the usability of CUIs; handling the variability in speech, language, and conversation that still pose problems in both interface design and speech engineering; error-recovery strategies that often lead to degraded user experience; understanding how user behaviours and choices may apply to specific CUI interactions; and issues of ethics and privacy. Workshop Website | IUI 2020
Mensch und Computer 2019 Workshop: Human-Computer Interaction and Aging - 3rd Workshop on Age-distinct User Experience and Interaction Design [September 9, 2019]
Continuing the previous two workshops on age-distinct user experience design, the goal of the 2019 event is set on deepening reflections and fostering the exchange of ideas. The full-day workshop offers researchers and practitioners the opportunity to present current research topics through a written submission and a short lecture. Subsequently, selected problems arising from the work of the invited researchers are discussed in interdisciplinary groups consisting of researchers, and practitioners as well as representatives of the target group. Through this mix one may expect interesting and particularly relevant findings concerning methodological approaches and design directions focusing on elderly user groups. Mensch und Computer Website | CFP | Workshop Description
WIRN 2019 Special Session: Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems [June 12-14, 2019]
The themes of this special session are multidisciplinary in nature, and closely connected in their final aims to identifying features from realistic dynamics of signal exchanges. Such dynamics characterize, formal and informal social signals, communication modes, hearing and vision processes, and brain functionalities. Of particular interest are analyses of visual, written and auditory information and corresponding computational efforts to automatically detect and interpret their semantic and pragmatic contents. Related applications of these interdisciplinary facets are ICT interfaces able to detect health and affective states of their users, interpret their psychological and behavioral patterns and support them through positively designed interventions aiming at improving their quality of life. Event Website
PETRA 2019 Workshop: COACH - Personalized Coaching for the Wellbeing of an Ageing Society [June 5, 2019]
The COACH workshop aims at triggering discussions and an exchange of experiences among project initiatives that have been funded under the H2020-EU.3.1.4. SC1-PM-15-2017 – "Personalised coaching for well-being and care of people as they age" topic, as well as researchers from other relevant projects and domains that are asked to contribute to the discussion, report their experiences and provide their insights. Discussed problem spaces may deal with the access to and processing of physiological and behavioural data, the usability and interaction design of intelligent coaching technology, as well as perceived user experiences, particularly touching on the challenge of building emotional computing interfaces. PETRA 2019 Website
Mensch und Computer 2018 Workshop: Golden Oldies and Silver Surfers 2.0 - 2. Workshop zum alters-differenzierten User Experience Design [September 1, 2018]
The workshop discusses lessons learned from designing technologie for seniors. This includes results of studies in ambient or active assisted living settings as well as critical reflections on methods and tools. Workshop Description (German)
Smarter Lives 2018 [February 20, 2018]
The aim of the Smarter Lives practitioners forum is to discuss problems and relevant solutions in Active and Assisted Living (AAL). As such it offers a space where relevant actors exchange ideas from a societal, political, economical and scientific perspective. Event Website
KMO 2017 Tutorial: The Internet of Things as a Source for Knowledge Acquisition and Discovery [August 21, 2017]
This tutorial will demonstrate some application scenarios for knowledge acquisition and discovery, and how they are enabled by the Internet of Things. In doing so we will focus on Beacons and their potential for tracking usage behavior. Tutorial Description
Smarter Lives 2016 [November 29, 2016]
The aim of the Smarter Lives practitioners forum is to discuss problems and relevant solutions in Active and Assisted Living (AAL). As such it offers a space where relevant actors exchange ideas from a societal, political, economical and scientific perspective. Event Website
eNTERFACE 2016 Project: The Roberta IRONSIDE project - A dialog capable humanoid personal assistant in a wheelchair for dependent persons [July 18 - August 12, 2016]
The project provides a unique opportunity for students to work on a real application and study verbal and non-verbal interaction possibilities (technical, dialogue, and social) between a human user and a human-sized robot. Project Description | Event Website
Smarter Lives 2015 [June 11, 2015]
The aim of the Smarter Lives practitioners forum is to discuss problems and relevant solutions in Active and Assisted Living (AAL). As such it offers a space where relevant actors exchange ideas from a societal, political, economical and scientific perspective. Event Website
MCiT Forum 2021 [June 2, 2021] -- ! Virtual !
The MCiT Forum is an online conference hosted by MCI's Master’s Program Management Communication and IT (MCiT). The event aims to bring together thought leaders and young professionals. We invite international companies to meet future graduates and provide insights into exciting MCiT research fields.
This year's topic "A New Digital World – How Did COVID-19 Change the IT-Industry?" focuses on new approaches and the re-thinking of existing business strategies, innovative and virtual collaboration as well as the adaptation of companies' functions and strategies. Event Website