IMPACT: Interactive Methodologies for Psychologically-safe AI & Collaborative Teaming

When: 9:00–13:00 on May 28th, 2026 

Where: (In-person)  Room A204, Unska Ulica 3, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

(Virtual) Zoom meeting

IMPACT is an interdisciplinary workshop on psychological safety in human–AI teams, which is defined as the shared belief that people can express uncertainty, ask questions, raise concerns, and challenge AI-supported decisions without fear of negative consequences.

The workshop examines how AI misleading and miscalibrating behaviors, such as overconfidence, sycophancy, false reassurance, and selective disclosure, affect human oversight, dissent, and collaborative error recovery.

 In engineering and safety-critical settings, these interaction patterns can suppress critical engagement, weaken effective oversight, undermine trust, and reduce collaborative resilience.

By bringing together perspectives from AI, HCI, robotics, psychology, and safety engineering, IMPACT aims to advance empirical and design-oriented research on psychologically safe and reliable human–AI collaboration.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• AI interaction patterns that may suppress questioning or dissent

• Overconfidence, sycophancy, false reassurance, and selective disclosure in AI systems

• Human hesitation to challenge AI-supported decisions

• Overreliance and under-reliance in human–AI teams

• Psychological safety and trust calibration in AI collaboration

• Error detection, collaborative error recovery, and resilience in human–teams

• Human oversight and intervention in safety-critical AI contexts

• Behavioral indicators of psychological safety in human–AI interaction

• Domain-specific versus domain-general psychological safety risks

• Design strategies for psychologically safer AI systems

We encourage participation in multiple formats:

1. Full Papers (4–6 pages, excluding references)

For mature research, theoretical frameworks, empirical findings, or substantial design contributions.

2. Brief Papers (up to 2 pages, excluding references)

For early-stage ideas, research challenges, case studies, provocative positions, negative results, or methodological reflections.

3. Position Papers (up to 2 pages, references optional)

For participants who wish to contribute to workshop discussion by sharing informed perspectives, relevant experiences, or emerging ideas. Position papers are a lightweight format for outlining the author’s view on the workshop theme and their motivation for engaging with the topic, without requiring completed research or formal references.

Paper Submission Guideline:

• Please use the IEEE Conference Proceeding template

• Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizing committee for fit and adherence to scientific standards.

• No anonymization is required (please submit with author names and affiliations).

How to Submit:

• Please email your submission (PDF) to Boyoung (bkim55@gmu.edu) and Samuele (s.vinanzi@shu.ac.uk).

• We ask you to include both organizers in the email with the subject line “IMPACT 2026 Submission.”

Let us know if you'll be attending!