The quest for enhanced cognition has been a driving force behind human advancement, fostering innovation and personal fulfillment. Cognition Altering Technologies (CAT) holds immense promise in elevating the quality of life across diverse domains including education, decision-making, healthcare, and fitness. The current proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly the widespread adoption of Generative AI and foundational models, presents an unprecedented opportunity to prototype new CAT that can augment human capabilities. This workshop aims to unite interdisciplinary research communities to explore the potential of leveragingGenAI and human-centered AI to develop relevant CAT. Taking place at MobileHCI 2024, this one-day workshop invites researchers, practitioners, and designers from fields such as artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, and social sciences to collaborate and chart the future of cognitive enhancement through technology

In the mobiCHAI workshop, we aim to have an interdisciplinary group of researchers including but not limited to education and didactic, health- and mental care, fitness and well-being, economy, sociology, and others. However, we expect the majority of submissions to come from computer science from system designers.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (up to 6 pages) should report reasonably mature work within the scope of mobiCHAI and are expected to demonstrate concrete and reproducible results. Accepted full papers will be presented and discussed in 10-minute slots.
• Short papers (up to 2 pages) are encouraged to report novel and creative ideas that are yet to produce concrete research results but are at a stage where community feedback would be useful. Short papers could also include provocations for envisioned systems/benefits/ or risks of CAT. Accepted short pap-ers will be presented at the Workshop as One-slide pitches

List of Topics

• Sensing cognition This topic focuses on how sensor systems could be optimized for tracking cognitive states and/or social behavior. How can technologies and study designs be improved to reduce the burden of sensing and determining a cognitive condition? What methods can help understand the context?
• Modeling and Simulating Cognition This topic focuses on methods such as machine learning algorithms and generative AI to model cognitive processes. It also targets questions like the simulation of users in tasks and design processes. The main target is to help CAT builders better design their systems but having accurate approximations of human behavior.
• Influencing cognition using CAT This topic focuses on creating a new CAT to alter human cognition. Participants are invited to submit proposals for new application areas and explorations that affect cognitive functions or give users new ones (if possible). Application areas for CAT include but are not limited to business, education, health care, and fitness.
• Evaluating CAT/cognition This topic targets the metrics for evaluating the impact of CAT on cognition. Wewelcome explorations discussing short-term and long-term effects. Additionally, we welcome explorationsreflecting on the impact on the individual vs. the society at large. Reflective contributions on new metrics andmethods of evaluation for cognition or one of its functions are encouraged. Proposing methods to measureexisting metrics such as reducing the user’s effort by altering the cognitive load, physiological responses, and/orsubjective perception of effort, and enhancing performance are also encouraged. We would also like to seesubmissions about the adverse effects of using CAT on the individual and society at large.
• Ethical considerations about CAT Topics include: does using CAT support/circumvent natural diversity inabilities? What are the privacy considerations while designing CAT? How to navigate ownership of producedcontent when AI helps the user? Which bias can be mitigated/accentuated through CAT? Is it ethical fororganizations to use CAT without the individual consent of the members?

Committees

Program Committee

• Agnes Grünerbl
• Passant ElAgroudy
• Jan Spilski
• Giulia Barbareschi
• Kai Kunze
• Thomas Lachmann
• Paul Lukowicz

Organizing committee

• Agnes Grünerbl
• Passant ElAgroudy
• Jan Spilski
• Giulia Barbareschi
• Kai Kunze
• Thomas Lachmann
• Paul Lukowicz

Venue

The workshop will be held at the Mobile HCI Conference in Melbourne, Australia

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to:

agnes(dot)gruenerbl(at)dfki(dot)de

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