Welcome to IDC'23 Workshop
Designing AI Interfaces for Children with Special Needs in Educational Contexts

Let’s contribute to the well-being of children with special needs.

Workshop Description

The advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have benefited interface design for educational purposes for children with special needs (e.g., autism, dyslexia). However, little research has explored the research and design issues, rationale, challenges, and opportunities in designing AI interfaces for children with special educational needs, What are the potential factors that impede effective collaboration between stakeholders from multiple disciplines? What are the fundamental theories/principles that underpin AI design for children with special needs?

The IDC research community has a growing interest in designing AI interfaces for children with special educational needs. Nonetheless, little research has explored the research and design issues, rationale, challenges, and opportunities in this field. Therefore, we propose to host a half-day workshop to bring together researchers and practitioners from the Learning & Education, Accessibility, and Intelligent User Interfaces sub-fields to discuss and identify existing design issues, challenges, and collaboration barriers, to establish consensus on the design of a pragmatic framework, as well as explore future innovation and research opportunities. We aim to foster mutual understanding and in-depth collaboration among researchers in the IDC community.

Important Days
  • Participant submissions due(on or before):  May 10 AoE  (NEW)
  • Participants notified of acceptance(on or before):  May 15
  • Workshop Day: June, 19, 9:00-12:00 AM
  • Location: Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. U.S.
Call for Participation

We are interested in a variety of submissions that concern design, technology application, evaluation, reflections, and personal experiences related to AI interface design for children with special educational needs.

Submissions can be made by directly emailing us at aidesign4children@gmail.com, and it can be in the format of 1).an abstract (300-500 words), or 2). a design example or personal experience relating to AI design for special children (600-800 words), or 3). a short (research, opinion, position) paper, formatted according to the ACM Master Article Submission Template (single column, up to 4 pages excluding references). We invite submissions on questions including but not limited to:

  • collaborations between multiple stakeholders
  • human factors and fundamental theories/principles
  • practices, methods, and tools
  • innovative use of AI technologies in design and education
  • evaluation and case studies
  • ethics, issues, and challenges
Contact Us & Submit Your Proposal

Let’s contribute to the well-being of children with special needs.

aidesign4children@gmail.com

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