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Hi all,
We are happy to announce that the 3rd Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing) will be co-located with CHI 2024. After the success of the first and second In2Writing workshops, we will host the workshop again at CHI this year in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The workshop will be hybrid, including both in-person and synchronous virtual participation.
[Dark Sides: Envisioning, Understanding, and Preventing Harmful Effects of Writing Assistants]
This year, the workshop will explore the challenges and dark sides of intelligent writing assistants, as well as how to prevent them. Writing assistants have become increasingly ubiquitous, and these tools will impact how we write. In our workshop, we, as a diverse group of researchers and practitioners interested in writing assistants, will discuss the "dark sides" of writing assistants - their potentially harmful effects - to envision research agendas to understand and prevent them. We ask potential participants to submit a short paper. We invite submissions from the HCI and NLP communities as well as industry practitioners, professional writers, and other communities interested in the future of intelligent writing assistants.
Workshop Website: https://in2writing.glitch.me/
Contact Email: in2writing.workshop@gmail.com
Important Dates (deadlines are 11:59 pm AOE):
+Paper submission deadline: 13 February, 2024 11:59PM (no extensions!)
+Paper acceptance notification: 7 March, 2024
+Workshop date: 11 May, 2024
[Call for Participation]
Writing assistants have become increasingly ubiquitous, and these tools will impact how we write. In our workshop, we, as a diverse group of researchers and practitioners interested in writing assistants, will discuss the "dark sides" of writing assistants - their potential harmful effects - to envision research agendas to understand and prevent them. We invite submissions from the HCI and NLP communities as well as industry practitioners, professional writers, and other communities interested in the future of intelligent writing assistants.
We ask potential participants to submit a short paper: participants will be invited based on demonstrating in-depth thinking about some aspects of writing assistants. Although non-archival, invited participants can have their papers hosted on the workshop website. Each paper could have one or more co-authors, i.e., multiple participants can attend by submitting a paper together. Note that to attend the workshop, a paper submission is required. A subset of talks during the workshop may be publicly livestreamed, however participation in interactive activities requires registration.
Papers must choose one of the following categories and specify the type in the submission:
+Extended abstracts: Submissions describing preliminary but interesting ideas or results.
+New work proposals: Ideas and plans for future research that have not yet been started.
+Position papers: Perspectives, theories, and provocations on writing assistants.
+Past work reflections: Reflections on your work that has been accepted for publication in another venue in the past 1 year (e.g., a summary of an accepted work), or synthesis of multiple previous publications done either by you or others (e.g., a brief literature synthesis).
We welcome all submissions that are highly relevant to writing assistants. Potential topics include the challenges and "dark sides" relevant to:
+Building and designing writing support tools
+Evaluation and comparison of writing assistants and design features
+Bias in writing assistance
+Ethical concerns and limitations
+Legal issues with copyright and the psychological sense of ownership
+Systems for underrepresented languages, types of writers, and writing tasks
+Accessibility and inclusivity
+Bridging the gap between NLP techniques and useful writing assistance
+Impacts, applications, and user adaptations of large language models (LLMs) to people's writing practice
We ask authors to follow the CHI Publication Format (either Latex or Word templates). The submission can be up to 1,500 words, excluding references and an appendix. The appendix can be up to four pages, but please do not expect reviewers to read it. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the organizers at in2writing.workshop@gmail.com.
Many thanks,
In2Writing Organizers:
Minsuk Chang (Google)
John Joon Young Chung (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Katy Ilonka Gero (Columbia University)
Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang (Pennsylvania State University)
Dongyeop Kang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Sarah Sterman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Vipul Raheja (Grammarly)
Thiemo Wambsganss (Bern University of Applied Sciences)