HIMAS 2027 — Human-Centered Interactive Multimodal AI Systems

About the Workshop

As AI models are increasingly able to handle multimodal data, effectively deploying these models in real-world settings requires building interactive systems that bridge the gap between multimodal AI and the users.

The Human-Centered Interactive Multimodal AI Systems (HIMAS) workshop brings together researchers from multimedia analytics, human-computer interaction, information visualization, and multimodal AI, alongside domain experts, to identify shared challenges and shape a research agenda for HIMAS.

The workshop explores three overlapping themes:

Integrating multimodal AI with interactive interfaces

Moving beyond text-only chat toward interfaces that combine speech, touch, sketches, gestures, and visualizations to communicate with and steer multimodal AI.

Designing HIMAS for effective human-AI collaboration

Supporting mixed-initiative interaction, shared context, and user agency — so people can inspect, verify, and correct how multimodal systems reason.

Adapting and generalizing HIMAS across domains

Understanding which design and evaluation approaches transfer across application areas — and which must be specialized to the domain.

Call for Papers

Submit your work

Position papers

Describe a future vision for HIMAS and articulate open challenges the community should tackle.

Research papers

Provide initial understanding of HIMAS through empirical or conceptual work.

Demos

Show working prototypes of interactive multimodal AI systems in an interactive afternoon session.

Submission deadline: November 9, 2026
Notification of acceptance: December 7, 2026
Camera-ready: December 21, 2026

All dates AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

Submissions are handled through OpenReview. Each submission receives at least two reviews from our international program committee. The review process is single-blind.

Go to submission portal →

Use the CEURART template. Download the LaTeX package or use the Overleaf template. It contains specific instructions on mandatory elements such as the Declaration on Generative AI. See this link for full submission guidelines.

Short papers: 8–9 pages
Regular papers: 10 pages

Page limits exclude references.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the workshop and present. Registration is subject to the terms and conditions of the IUI conference. Accepted papers will appear in the joint IUI 2027 workshop proceedings.