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 Link
    • Paper Submission Template

      CEUR Template
    • Poster

      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.

    Organizing 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