========================================================= 2nd Call for Papers - Deadline EXTENDED: HeMAI 2026 Multimodal Interaction with Generative AI Health Applications Workshop at ICMI 2026, Naples, Italy, 9 October 2026 (in person) https://qulab.github.io/HeMAI2026/ Submission via PCS until July 13, 2026 =========================================================
Generative AI is changing how people interact with health technology. Large language models, multimodal foundation models, and conversational agents make it possible to combine text, speech, vision, and physiological signals in ways that weren't practical a few years ago, and they raise difficult questions about usability, safety, explainability, trust, and evaluation when the stakes involve someone's health.
HeMAI 2026 brings HCI, AI, and health researchers together to work through those questions. We welcome contributions on multimodal interaction techniques for health systems, conversational and embodied agents in healthcare, integration of text/speech/vision/biosignals, explainability and transparency, human-AI collaboration, safety and trust, ethical and regulatory issues, evaluation methodologies, and real-world deployments.
Submission types: - Full research papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references) - Short / work-in-progress / position / demo papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references)
Submissions follow ICMI 2026 author guidelines: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/guidelines/ Papers rejected from the main ICMI track are welcome if they fit the scope.
Important dates (AoE): - Paper submission: 6 July 2026 (via PCS) - Notification: 29 July 2026 - Camera-ready: 1 August 2026 - Workshop: 9 October 2026
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings associated with ICMI 2026.
Organizers: - Stefan Hillmann (TU Berlin) - Sebastian Möller (TU Berlin & DFKI Berlin) - Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS--ISIR, Sorbonne University) - Lisa Raithel (TU Berlin & BIFOLD & DFKI Berlin & Charité--IKIM) - Roland Roller (DFKI Berlin)
Workshop website: https://qulab.github.io/HeMAI2026/
We are looking forward to your submissions!