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Call for Participation! Workshop at CUI26: “Adapting Dialog and Pragmatic Traits in Context”

Members of the ComAI research unit are organizing a half-day workshop at CUI in Bremen to explore the use of human-like pragmatic cues — such as tone of voice, backchanneling, and conversational repair — in conversational agents across different domains.  As of now, such cues are often blindly mimicked by models rather than being strategically designed to serve a true communicative function. How can we move beyond the mere illusion of human-like traits and instead embed these cues as interface features that actively support mutual understanding? And how can pragmatic cues be adapted to the domain and context?

We invite researchers, designers, and practitioners to join us in bridging the gap between HCI, psycholinguistics, and the social sciences. Together, we will explore how users appropriate conversational AI across various domains, and discuss how to transition from open-domain models to specialized, domain-specific interface implementations that truly serve user needs.

What to submit: A 2-3 page position paper OR a 1-page statement of interest

Deadline: June 4th, AoE

Submit to:adaptic@uni-bremen.de

Workshop date: July 21st, 9:00am – 12:30pm (In-person) @ CUI26 in Bremen

Read the full call and list of topics here: l-spillner.github.io/adaptic26