Schedule Overview
We plan to conduct the workshop as a half-day, in-person event to facilitate exchange and collaboration. The first half of the workshop focuses on establishing a shared vocabulary and theoretical foundation. We aim to bring together different perspectives from different research fields on interaction with and appropriation of CAs. First, participants will be invited to introduce their own work or position papers in a lightning introduction round, followed by a keynote presentation and then a discussion. The second half of the workshop will transition into an active, collaborative design session. Smaller interdisciplinary groups, guided by the workshop organizers, will focus on different domain-specific topics. Depending on the expertise of the accepted attendees, groups will engage in a rapid prototyping or mind-mapping activity, with the goal of bridging the gap between theoretical insights and practical CUI design strategies.
| Time | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Welcome | The organizers welcome participants, introduce the workshop goals, and briefly outline the agenda for the half-day session. |
| 09:10 | Lightning introductions | Participants introduce themselves with their position papers in one presentation slide. If multiple participants authored the same position paper, one person should take the lead and introduce their co-authors. |
| 09:40 | Keynote: Appropriating Communicative AI | Prof. Wiebke Loosen introduces the appropriation framework, exploring how new forms of agency and identity arise across different domains when humans and communicative AI constitute each other. |
| 10:00 | Discussion | A guided group discussion combining insights from the position papers and the keynote. |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Practical design session | Participants work in small interdisciplinary groups, led by workshop organizers from different disciplines, on a practical, design-focused activity, exploring ideas, challenges, and developing preliminary concepts. |
| 11:45 | Discussion of results | Groups present the outcomes of their activity and discuss key insights, challenges, and opportunities with the wider group. |
| 12:15 | Closing remarks and future plans | The organizers summarize key takeaways, discuss potential next steps for collaboration, and close the workshop. |
| 12:30 | End of the Workshop |
Keynote
Appropriating Communicative AI: Agency, Identity, and the Interface That Speaks About Itself
What happens when we move beyond questions of use and adoption and start asking what emerges when humans and communicative AI constitute each other? This talk introduces an appropriation framework developed in an interdisciplinary research group studying communicative AI across five social domains — journalism, political discourse, personal sphere, health care, and education. Appropriation, understood as an active, processual, and constitutive practice, opens a perspective that can complement established HCI approaches: it makes visible how new forms of agency and identity arise in the encounter between humans and communicative AI, and why the interface — unlike its predecessors — is structurally metacommunicative: it speaks about itself.
Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen
Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)
Wiebke is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) and a professor at the University of Hamburg. She co-leads the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI), which investigates how societal communication changes when communicative AI becomes part of it. Wiebke's research focuses on the transformation of journalism within a changing environment, the changing relationship between journalism and its audiences, and the theoretical foundations of communicative AI as both a medium and a communicative partner. She approaches these questions from perspectives of communication theory and media sociology, with a particular interest in what emerges when humans and communicative AI constitute each other.
