MIND (Mixed-Initiative Next-gen Design) Workshop
Workshop @ IUI'2025
March 24th, 2025
Cagliari, Italy
The explosion of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly auto-regressive as agents serving as chatbots, generative search and work automating tools, has also brought with it inherent limitations.
We posit that efforts to alleviate these LLM challenges – hallucinations, unpredictability outputs, lack of transparency and difficulties in customization cannot be solved through algorithmic improvements alone, but requires elevated mixed-initiative interface design that is at the heart of the IUI community.
This workshop provides a forum for discussing, brainstorming, and prototyping next-generation interfaces that leverage the strengths of both agent-based and direct manipulation paradigms, ultimately empowering end-users to harness the power of LLMs more efficiently and confidently.
Workshop Goals
The central theme of this workshop revolves around how to combine agent-based approaches and direct manipulation interfaces, two seemingly disparate paradigms. How can the strengths of both be leveraged to empower users? What does the ideal balance look like for different user types? What novel design guidelines can future practitioners adhere to when designing human-AI interaction? By bringing together researchers and practitioners from HCI, IUI, and AI, we aim to establish a joint community that can create a deeper understanding of next-generation interactive AI systems and the creation of delightful, empowering, and effective user experiences.
Key Date
Paper, Demo, & Poster Submission
January 22th, 2025 AoE
Acceptance Notifcations
February 14th, 2025
Camera-Ready Submissions
February 26th, 2025
Topics
We invite researchers, designers, engineers, and HCI practitioners from the IUI community and beyond who are interested in pushing the boundaries of interactive AI systems. We particularly welcome contributions that explore innovative approaches combining agent-based interfaces with direct manipulation techniques. This includes, but is not limited to, work in areas such as:
• Mixed-Initiative Interaction Design for LLMs • Explainable and Transparent AI (XAI) for LLMs • Human-AI Collaboration and Control in Creative Tasks • Adaptive and Personalized Interfaces for AI Systems • Evaluation of Mixed-Initiative LLM Interfaces
Submissions
Papers & Demos
Please format your paper or demo submission using the CEUR single-column template. The submission must be a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 10 pages for publication in CEUR.
Please submit through this link:
Submission LinkPoster
We also welcome submissions of two-page extended abstracts for our poster session. Please note that these abstracts will not be included in the CEUR proceedings. Formatting should follow the same CEUR guidelines as outlined above.
Paper Submission Template
CEUR TemplateOrganizing Committee
Please reach out to organizing committee at sonia@pienso.com
Meng-Hsin Wu
Pienso
Henry Lieberman
MIT CSAIL
Karthik Dinakar
Pienso
Program Committee
Bryan Wang
Adobe
Crystal Qian
Google
Damien Masson
Université de Montréal
Ennio Dybeli
Pienso
Faria Huq
Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Wu
Apple
Pedro Colon-Hernandez
Apple
Ryan Yen
MIT
Sangho Sun
University of Toronto
Tony Wang
Cornell Univeristy
Yi-Hao Peng
Carnegie Mellon University
Ying-Jui Tseng
Amazon
Yoonsu Kim
KAIST
Yuwen Lu
University of Notre Dame