2nd International Workshop on Health, Wellbeing and Human-AI Interaction (HWandHAII)

Call for Papers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly relevant to health and everyday wellbeing. This BCS BritCHI 2026 workshop invites contributions on Health, Wellbeing and Human-AI Interaction (HAII). The workshop addresses AI in health and care settings and the broader wellbeing implications of everyday AI interaction, including conversational agents, generative AI, recommender systems, workplace AI and digital support tools.

The workshop will include a short framing talk, presentations from accepted contributors, and facilitated discussion focused on challenges, opportunities and future research directions. Submissions will be selected for relevance to the workshop theme, clarity of contribution and potential to stimulate discussion.

eWiC-formatted papers are invited via the workshop EasyChair portal on topics including, but not limited to:

• Explainability and transparency in AI-driven health tools

• Emotional and psychological impacts of interacting with AI 

• Human-AI collaboration in clinical decision-making and caring relationships

• Humanity-centred AI and algorithmic aversion or automation in health and wellbeing

• AI-driven behaviour-change and habit formation

• Participatory and inclusive design approaches for health and wellbeing in HAII systems 

• Unintended consequences and long-term implications relating to HAII 

• Approaches to trust and user empowerment

• AI-supported healthcare systems to strengthen societal resilience

• Personalisation in HAII systems: Exploring design strategies that go beyond demographic targeting to include psychological, behavioural, and contextual profiling

• Approaches to mitigate (implicit or explicit) misuse of interactive AI-systems

• The futures of health and wellbeing HAII

• Inclusive AI for health and wellbeing for everyone: AI agents that work well for all users

• Ethics and agency in health and well-being; Who is in control? Discussing fairness, responsibility, and human oversight in AI-agent decision-making

• AI health applications, guardrails and bias mitigations, etc.

Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission and all participants must register for the workshop. 

Paper Submission

• Paper Length: Short papers should be between 4 and 6 pages, excluding references.

• Formatting: Please adhere to the Electronic Workshops in Computing paper format and ensure you use the template provided.

• Submission: Submissions should be made via the HWandHAII EasyChair portal.

Key Dates

• Submissions due 13th August, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth).

• Notification of acceptance, 27th August, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth).

Attending

• The workshop is scheduled for Sunday 1st November, 2026.

• Link to main BCS BritCHI 2026 conference registration information

• Link to conference venue and travel information

Workshop Organisers

• Sandra I. Woolley, Keele University, UK

• Ed de Quincey, Keele University, UK

• Baidaa Al-Bander, Keele University, UK

• Marco Ortolani, Keele University, UK

• Raymond Bond, Ulster University, UK

• Tim Collins, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

• Madeleine Steeds, University College Dublin, Ireland

• Clare Rainey, University College Cork, Ireland

• James Mitchell, University of Colorado Anschutz, USA

Contact

Enquiries welcome to s.i.woolley@keele.ac.uk. Please use 'HWandHAII' in the subject line.