Call for Papers

1st CALL FOR PAPERS 🎈

Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth)

• Submission deadline: 7 April 2025 11 April 2025 AOE
• Notification of acceptance: 2 May 2025 5 May 2025 AOE
• Camera Ready due: 12 May 2025 AOE

Aim and scope

The Mind the AI-GAP 2025 workshop aims to critically address unwanted bias and discrimination in AI technologies by proactively integrating fairness and inclusivity within the design process, fostering social and structural change. The workshop explores how Participatory AI can shape solutions that better reflect community values, needs, and preferences and aims to bring together diverse stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, NGOs, civil society, and designers. Through a combination of talks, roundtables, and hands-on activities, participants will collectively discuss participatory approaches and develop actionable outputs, such as guidelines or a white paper, to advance Participatory AI as a tool for equitable, transparent, and impactful systems.

Topics

We welcome technical and non-technical submissions with experimental, theoretical, or methodological contributions. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions focusing on participatory approaches to AI development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Methods and frameworks for participatory AI design
• Case studies of co-design processes in AI development
• Approaches to stakeholder engagement and community value integration
• Analyses of power dynamics in participatory AI design
• Strategies for balancing individual and collective needs in AI design
• Methods and evaluation frameworks for participatory AI processes
• Tools and techniques for enhancing AI transparency for diverse stakeholders
• Experiences and lessons learned from co-design and stakeholder engagement
• Ethical considerations in participatory AI development
• Citizen science and democratizing AI design and deployment
• Real-world impacts and challenges of participatory AI design in practice
• The workshop is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the venue.

Submission

We welcome the following types of submissions:

• Full original research paper that presents original, impactful work (from 5 up to 9 pages);
• Blue sky papers present visionary ideas to stimulate the research community (from 5 up to 9 pages);

Both types of papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

We also welcome the following types of submissions:

• Extended abstracts describing ongoing research, personal experiences with the topic, proof of concept, etc.. Authors can opt for having their paper included in the proceedings (5 pages required) or for non-archival presentations (from 2 up to 5 pages);
• Research communication of already published papers that serve to promote the dissemination of contributions aligned with the scope of the workshop (up to 2 pages). They will not be published in the conference proceedings.

All paper lengths exclude references, which are unlimited. All submissions should adhere to the CEUR-WS guidelines and style templates PDF, LaTeX, Word available here and be uploaded on Easychair.

Accepted submissions shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication in a dedicated free, open-access volume in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Since CEUR partners with Scopus, these proposals will also be indexed in it.

Contributions will be presented either as oral presentations (lightning talks) or posters. All presentations are expected to be in person, except in exceptional cases (e.g., a speaker encounters a last-minute issue and cannot attend the conference).