Please find the papers accepted for CONVERSATIONS 2025 below. Position papers and project presentations are available in their final version. Full and short papers are available as preprints only, with the final versions to be published in the Springer LNCS post-event proceedings.
Three of the paper were nominated to the CONVERSATIONS 2025 Best Paper Award.
All preprints are password protected. Please contact the organizers to obtain the password.
INTERACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Barriers shaping synthetic relationships with companion bots: A three week initial adaptation study (full paper). Marisa Tschopp, Nadine Schlicker, Nima Zargham, Henrik Skaug Saetra and Johannes Schöning.
Evaluating the usability of a social robot for book talks in primary school (full paper). Mattias Arvola, Linda Söderqvist, Emma Mainza Chilufya, Anna Martín Bylund, Susanne Severinsson, Linnéa Stenliden and Tom Ziemke
Student counsellors’ perspectives on a student mental well-being chatbot: Exploring needs, preferences, and design requirements (full paper). Valentina Bartali, Emmelyn A. J. Croes, Tibor Bosse, Renate H. M. de Groot and Marjolijn M. L. Antheunis
Left, right, down, or round – Exploring the design of patterns in chatbot interfaces and how users like them (full paper). Verena Traubinger, Sebastian Heil, Akshata Anil Mithari and Martin Gaedke
POSTER SESSION 1
Seeing you seeing me: Augmenting human-robot dialogue with vision language models (position paper). Thomas Sievers
Generative artificial intelligence in qualitative research methods: Between hype and risks? (position paper) Maria Couto Teixeira, Marisa Tschopp and Anna Jobin
The AI2Entrepreneur Promptathon: Fostering AI literacy and entrepreneurship education through interactive workshop formats (project presentation). Miriam Maibaum and Benedikt Breitkopf
Relationship formation with artificial companions (project presentation). Ezgi Dede, Hande Sungur, Jeroen Lemmens and Jochen Peter
Mapping and calibrating user trust with LLMs: First steps towards developing a framework for shaping trust (position paper). Samuel Hill, Joy Belgassem and Felix Nadolni
Across the domains: Investigating interface and pragmatic features (project presentation). Johanna Rockstroh, Laura Spillner, Nima Zargham, Rainer Malaka and Nina Wenig
Evaluating AI-authorship: The role of text domain and presentation style (short paper). Angelica Henestrosa, Julia Schühle, Joachim Kimmerle and Teresa Luther
Design and evaluation of Eva.ai: A conversational AI learning environment for programming education (short paper). Paraskevas Lagakis and Stavros Demetriadis
From voice to feeling: Lessons learned from a hybrid deep-learning model for spanish emotion recognition in virtual assistants (project presentation). Rafael del Hoyo and Gorka Labata
HUMAN-CENTRED AND TRUSTWORTHY
Human or humane? Users’ pluralist perspectives on the ethical values and risks of digital humans (full paper). Lotte Willemsen, Iris Withuis, Sanne Snoeij-Smit and Charlotte van Hooijdonk
Balancing offensive language and freedom of expression in AI speech assistants: An ethical and algorithmic perspective (full paper). Madeleine Rischer, Jonas Ehrhardt and Gerhard Schreiber (Best Paper Award winner)
Measuring political chatbots: A multi-dimensional framework for trustworthiness (full paper). Thilo Dieing (Best Paper Award nominee)
FairBotBench: A bilingual benchmark for evaluating chatbot behavior in e-commerce (full paper). Maik Thiele, Jürgen Anke, Steffen Tomschke, Tamás Janusko, Ricardo Bochnia and Gunnar Hempel
CO-DESIGN AND USER EXPERIENCE
Social robot agency and fiction: Co-designing a conversational robot for reading with children (full paper). Linnéa Stenliden, Anna Martín Bylund, Emma Mainza Chilufya, Susanne Severinsson, Mattias Arvola and Tom Ziemke
Rewriting the script: Conversation design’s evolution with LLM co-design (full paper). Melissa Guyre, Lisette Gonzalez, Meryll Davis and Rahul Divekar
“It’s mysterious, bodiless and omniscient, like a god”: Exploring users’ perceptions of synthetic relationships in a mental health app (full paper). Maria Couto Teixeira, Annika Aebli, Stefanie Klein and Marisa Tschopp
Older adults’ perceptions of LLM-based music chatbots (full paper). Farkhandah Aziz Komal, Effie Lai-Chong Law and Martha Correa-Delval
POSTER SESSION 2
Towards an open platform for evaluating conversational assistants with empathy, negotiation and procedural fairness (project presentation). Rafael del Hoyo-Alonso, Patricia Pérez-Curiel, Rosa María Montañés and Juan Carlos Bustamante
Care-AI – paving the way for AI in elder care (project presentation). Rebecca Starke, Christina Bober, Kristina D’Alessio, Eileen Heydenreich and Prof. Dr. Beatrice Podtschaske
Adaptive scaffolding for human-centered AI in education (position paper). Giuliana Lavagnino and Michael Wessel
MediCall: A voice-based booking system for non-emergency medical transports (short paper). Hannes Bradl, Ferdinand Fuhrmann, Melissa Hagendorn, Marlene Sarka and Franz Graf
FairBotLive: Exploring bias, personalization, and toxicity in LLM-powered chatbots (short paper). Maik Thiele, Jürgen Anke, Ricardo Bochnia, Steffen Tomschke, Tamás Janusko, Tanja Dietrich, Paulus Tamm and Gunnar Hempel
Designing usable interfaces for human evaluation of LLM-generated texts: UX challenges and solutions (short paper). Androniki Mertsiotaki, Stephanie Hofmann, Sarah Keck, Alexander Daum, Emily Kratsch and Birgit Popp
Hybrid (rule-based + gen AI) chatbot: Automating negotiations (short paper). Klaus Garrido Tenorio, Michael Becker-Peth and Jelle de Vries
Generative AI and IT professionals: A study of usage practices (short paper). Anne-Sofie Færk Spens, Kristian Grønlund Mikkelsen, Tanja Svarre and Marianne Lykke
APPLICATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS
LLM usage for clinical decision support and documentation support in hospitals – a systematic review (full paper). Laura Anderle, Abdelbaset Abidi, Saban Ünlü, Oliver Steidle, Tim Janßen and Thomas Petzold
A hybrid semantic-lexical FAQ chatbot architecture with paraphrase augmentation and generative response refinement (full paper). Mazen Salem Asag, Mueeze Mushabbir, Kamrul Hasan and Hasan Mahmud
Motion2Meaning: A clinician-centered framework for contestable LLM in Parkinson’s disease gait interpretation (full paper). Phuc Truong Loc Nguyen, Thanh Hung Do, Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen and Hung Cao (Best Paper Award nominee)
Generative AI in the workplace: workers’ experiences and competence development (full paper). Anna Grøndahl Larsen, Marita Skjuve and Asbjørn Følstad
Not all trust is the same: Effects of decision workflow and explanations in human-AI decision making (full paper). Laura Spillner, Rachel Ringe, Robert Porzel and Rainer Malaka
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