Dear Colleagues,

Human-Artificial Intelligence (AI) interaction is on the brink of revolutionizing the world in the coming decades, transforming everything from business operations to household applications. AI empowers systems with the ability to learn, adapt, and make decisions, bringing significant benefits to fields such as medicine, architecture, education, agriculture, and forensics. This transformative technology has redefined the way we interact with the world around us, ushering in a new era of human-AI partnerships where humans use AI-infused systems both implicitly and explicitly to augment their experiences and achieve greater outcomes based on their generative capacity and contextualized meanings in practical uses.

This special issue aims to present the latest advances and perspectives in the area of human-AI interaction. Articles accepted for publication must address topics related to the design, development and evaluation of human-AI interactive systems. We invite both researchers and practitioners to contribute their high-quality original research, reviews, insights, and perspectives on these topics to this special issue.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• AI models: AI models used for human-AI interaction, such as conversational agents, recommendation systems, and assisted learning systems.
• User interfaces: user interfaces for human-AI interaction systems, such as natural interfaces, graphical interfaces, and virtual reality-based interfaces.
• Evaluation of human-AI interactive systems: fieldwork studies (e.g., ethnographically-informed approaches to AI system design) and methods for evaluating human-AI interactive systems such as usability assessment scales, accessibility compliance instruments, and impact assessment methodologies.
• Challenges and opportunities of human-AI interaction in real-world settings: potential obstacles and possibilities to implementing human-AI systems in specific application domains, such as collaborative clinical work, digital well-being, misinformation, creativity work, and entertainment.

Dr. António Correia
Dr. Daniel Schneider
Prof.Dr. Benjamim Fonseca
Prof.Dr. Tommi Kärkkäinen
Guest Editors

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• artificial intelligence
• foundation models
• human-AI interaction
• human-centered generative AI
• hybrid intelligent systems
• large language models
• machine learning
• mixed-initiative systems
• user experience