Join us for a one-day interactive workshop on the Future of Synthetic Relationships.

 

Synthetic relationships are defined as continuing interactions between humans and AI tools in which AI influences humans' thoughts, emotions, or behaviors (Starke et al., 2024). The aim of the workshop is to foster discussions around these main questions:

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• How will society be impacted by synthetic relationships in 5-10 years?

• Which theories will remain relevant to this topic?

• For which aspects of synthetic relationships do we need new theories?

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The workshop is designed to be interactive and consists of two parts:

 

Part 1 — Presentations and speakers

We invite researchers from all career-stages to present their work and their vision/answers on the above. Examples of research work (not exhaustive):

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• AI as a tool (e.g., writing assistants, search engines)

• Agents in the home (e.g., smart speakers, wearables, and smart appliances)

• Mental well-being and chatbots

• Emotional attachment to artificial partners

• Embodied AI (e.g., robots and virtual agents)

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If you are unsure if your work fits the scope of the workshop, please submit anyway!

 

Part 2 — Discussion & Brainstorming on the future of human-AI interaction

After an inspirational Part 1, we will discuss what we feel the answers could be to the above questions. You do not need to have presented in Part 1 to take part in Part 2. Feel free to register without submitting an abstract.

 

This workshop is open to all researchers working on and interested in this topic and similar topics.