Human-AI Interaction is a rapidly growing research area. As Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) increasingly take over tasks previously performed only by humans, it leads to more situations where humans and machines need to cooperate. Compared to their traditional supportive role, current AI products increasingly make autonomous decisions and share responsibility with humans in a wide range of domains such as self-driving cars, robotic surgical systems, and human-AI decision-making teams. In many cases, social interaction convention developed between humans, such as collaboration and competition, is becoming a starting point for understanding and designing human-machine cooperation (HMC) on topics such as ability, authority, and control.

Computer games and playful media provide a unique platform to study human-AI interaction. Many games are social by nature as they embed mechanisms for collaborative and competitive play between players and AIs. When a user co-creates new game levels with an AI, they collaborate through play.

Following the first workshop on this topic (2023), we continue to explore the questions around human-AI cooperation through play. How to design playful interactions that facilitate human-AI teams? Can affects associated with gameplay be used to guide human-AI collaboration? How do we design gameplay where multiple AIs and multiple players interact with one another? How do we conceptualize adversarial AI and human-AI competition as a productive alternative? What evaluation methods are needed that fully account for the autonomy of AI? Which factors of human-AI collaborations lead to productive and fun interactions ?

Researchers and practitioners interested in related areas are invited to submit papers up to 6 pages length (including references). All paper submissions should be anonymized, and follow the recommended IEEE conference author guidelines. MS Word and LaTeX templates can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. The submissions must be original and relevant contributions. Examples include, but not limited to, position papers summarizing authors’ existing research in this area and how it relates to the workshop theme, papers that review the related literature and offer a new perspective, and papers that describe work-in-progress research projects.

Related topics include but are not limited to the following, in games and playable media:

• Human-AI teams 

• Mixed-initiative collaboration between human and AI 

• AI assistants or tutors for players

• Human-AI collaboration for problem solving

• AI explainability for players

• Socio-affective computing in games (e.g., relational or cognitive aspects of player-AI cooperation)

• Believable agents in human-AI teams

• Methods for the assessment of human and AI collaborations

• Transparency, trust, and ethics in human-AI cooperation

Submission: 

Papers should be submitted via https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CoG2024 by the end of April 28th 2024 (AoE), and will be reviewed by committee members. Submissions should be max 6 pages (including references) long in IEEE conference format . The submissions must be original and relevant contributions. Examples include, but not limited to, position papers summarizing authors’ existing research in this area and how it relates to the workshop theme, papers that review the related literature and offer a new perspective, and papers that describe work-in-progress research projects. 

The submissions should be double-blind (anonymized) and will receive three reviews. Accepted papers are included in auxiliary track of the CoG Conference proceedings. 

At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and attend the workshop.

For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at haiplay_fdg23 at googlegroups.com.