*Pam Briggs (Primary Contact) holds a Chair in Applied Psychology at Northumbria University and leads their Centre for Digital Citizens and a is a co-investigator for their Centre for Doctoral Training in Citizen-Centred AI. She organised the Citizen-Centred AI track for GoodIT, 2023. https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/b/pamela-briggs/. p.briggs@northumbria.ac.uk
Cristina Conati is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where she runs the Human-AI Interaction Lab. Her research goal is to create AI systems that can both perform useful tasks and be well accepted by their users. She organised the TransEET Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Exploratory Learning, 2025. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/cristina-conati conati@cs.ubc.ca,
*Shaun Lawson is Professor of Social Computing and Head of the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at Northumbria University. He is Director of the University's UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Citizen Centred AI. He organised the More Than Human Digital Civics Workshop at CHI 2024. https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/l/shaun-lawson/ shaun.lawson@northumbria.ac.uk
*Kyle Montague is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Northumbria University and Research Co-Lead of the Northumbria Centre for Responsible AI. He directs the Northumbria Social Computing (NorSC) research group, focusing on participatory design, digital civics, and inclusive technology development. His work emphasises democratising technology design through community engagement, with recent projects addressing responsible AI in law enforcement, AI literacy for vulnerable populations, and participatory platforms for public services. https://www.kylemontague.co.uk/ kyle.montague@northumbria.ac.uk.
Hugo Nicolau is an Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon. He leads a research team on inclusive computing and is Vice-President of ITI/LARSyS research unit. He has served in multiple organising roles in top-tier conferences such as CHI, ASSETS, and DIS. He organised the Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods Workshop at CHI 2025. https://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/hugo.nicolau/aboutme/ hugo.nicolau@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Ana Pires is a Research Fellow in the Interactive Technologies Institute at the University of Lisbon, where she develops inclusive educational technology for children with mixed visual abilities. https://iti.larsys.pt/member/ana-pires/ ana.pires@iti.larsys.com
Sebastien Stein is a Turing AI Acceleration Fellow at the University of Southampton, where he is Principal Investigator of the Citizen-Centric AI Systems project. With a background in multi-agent systems, his work focuses on the use of AI systems to solve urgent societal problems, for example, in smart mobility, smart energy and disaster response applications. http://southampton.ac.uk/people/5x5r59/professor-sebastian-stein ss2@ecs.soton.ac.uk
*John Vines holds a Chair in Design Informatics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and co-directs the Institute for Design Informatics. He also leads the Centre for Doctoral Training in Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing. His research is primarily in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and focuses on how people experience and use digital and data-driven technologies in their everyday lives. He organised the Technology Mediated Caregiving For Older Adults Aging in Place Workshop for CHI 2025 https://www.designinformatics.org/person/john-vines/ john.vines@ed.ac.uk
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