Important Dates
· Open submission: June 2nd, 2025
· Paper submission deadline: June 18th, 2025
· Author notification: July 21st, 2025
· Camera-ready version: September 1st, 2025
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12)
We invite the research community to submit short papers on the following relevant topics, but not limited to:
Ethical considerations in the development and deployment of MIR systems.
Societal challenges related to MIR technology, including environmental, political, legal, and social dimensions.
Implications of MIR systems on cultural diversity, bias, privacy, and inclusivity.
Long-term ethical and societal impacts of integrating MIR technology into everyday life.
User perception of AI-generated music compared to traditional compositions.
The role of AI identity (e.g., collaborative human-AI creation vs. fully autonomous generation) in shaping user experience.
Comparative studies on how people evaluate music created by different AI models.
Methods for assessing the aesthetic and emotional impact of AI-generated music in human-centered contexts.
Cross-cultural studies on music perception and AI-generated music.
Designing MIR systems that enhance creative collaboration between humans and AI.
The role of artists and musicians in shaping and improving MIR technologies.
The role of AI in traditional and novel music creative practices.
Tools, methodologies, and case studies that support co-creative processes between humans and AI.
Challenges and opportunities in fostering human-AI partnerships for music creation and curation.
Best practices for designing accessible and enjoyable MIR systems.
Addressing diverse user needs, including those with limited technical expertise.
Evaluating the usability and effectiveness of MIR interfaces in music search, recommendation, and listening experiences.
Innovations in interface design to enhance engagement with MIR technologies.
Integrating insights from musicology, psychology, and human-computer interaction (HCI) into MIR research.
Cross-disciplinary approaches to addressing human-centric challenges in MIR development.
Collaborative frameworks involving diverse fields to improve the societal relevance of MIR systems.
Visionary approaches to embedding human values in MIR research and applications.
Emerging challenges and opportunities in aligning MIR systems with ethical and societal goals.
Strategies for ensuring MIR technologies evolve to prioritize human-centric values and creativity.
Submission Format
Submissions should not exceed 4 pages (plus unlimited pages for references). They must be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hcmir25
We explicitly encourage the submission of papers describing work in progress or containing preliminary results to discuss with the community. All submissions must include an abstract between 150 and 200 words.
Papers will be reviewed by the workshop committee with consideration for quality and fit to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted submission is required to attend the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented as short oral or poster presentations, and will tentatively be archived on CEUR-WS.org.
Template
Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Please use CEURART's template for paper submissions. The zip file with the templates contains both a Word and LaTeX template; you can choose either one. Alternatively, you can also use CEURART's Overleaf template - just create a copy of the project by clicking on 'copy project' in the menu when you're logged in and start editing it. Whatever template you choose, please make sure to use the 1-column format. For the initial submission, you only need the PDF formatted according to the template.
Anonymization
Our peer review process is mutually anonymous, meaning the reviewers do not know the names of the authors and the authors will not know the names of the reviewers. Therefore, we ask you to make sure to anonymize your submission. Non-anonymized papers may be rejected without review.
This means the submitted PDF should not contain the authors’ names. References to your own papers should be cited in a way that does not reveal or imply that they were written by you. Remove information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgements (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs). Check supplementary material for information that may reveal the author's identity. Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors, provide anonymised links instead.
Preprints
As in ISMIR25: To maintain the legitimacy of our double-blind review process, we strongly discourage authors from posting near duplicate manuscripts in public archives (technical reports, arXiv, etc.). In the same spirit, to protect our double-blind review process, authors need to make sure they do not promote their work in any way during the review process (social media, blog, mailing list, etc.), since this may prevent preserving anonymity.
External Materials
As in ISMIR25, if the paper promises to make the code, dataset, or other materials available after acceptance, our research community relies on the research ethics of the authors to fulfil their promise.
If you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact the HCMIR25 organisation committee: Ahyeon Choi (chah0623@snu.ac.kr), Roser Batlle-Roca (roser.batlle@upf.edu), Lorenzo Porcaro (lorenzo.porcaro@uniroma1.it), and Eunice Hong (euniunie@snu.ac.kr).