About the Workshop

As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation.

Co‑located with ACM IUI 2026 — March 23–26, 2026 • Paphos, Cyprus.

Objectives

This workshop aims to address critical challenges in designing human-centered, intelligent interfaces for health and wellness applications. Key issues include fostering long-term user engagement, personalizing experiences to meet individual needs, and building trust in AI-driven systems. Health IUIs must serve diverse stakeholders — patients managing chronic conditions, clinicians making informed decisions, and caregivers supporting loved ones — while operating in sensitive contexts where errors can have serious consequences.

Our goal is to bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners from fields such as human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, healthcare, psychology, and rehabilitation sciences. By fostering collaboration across these disciplines, we aim to explore innovative solutions that balance technical advancements with user needs and ethical considerations.

The workshop will provide a platform for participants to share research findings, discuss emerging challenges, and identify opportunities for innovation in health IUIs. Through presentations and extended discussions, we aim to generate actionable insights that can guide future research and development efforts. By focusing on user-centered design principles and ethical AI integration, this workshop aims to contribute meaningfully to the advancement of health technologies that are both intelligent and empathetic to user needs.

Call for Papers

We invite full papers (max 16 pages excl. refs) and short papers (max 8 pages excl. refs), one‑column CEURART format. We welcome research, system, dataset, position, and replication papers. All submissions are peer‑reviewed and will follow ACM IUI workshop publication standards. Accepted papers will be published as part of the Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2026 Workshops at CEUR: https://ceur-ws.org/. Last year proceedings can be found here: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3957/

English, PDF, one‑column CEURART style
Include author names, affiliations, and contact emails
Optional: links to demos, data, or code
Original work; not under review elsewhere

Submit via EasyChair CFP on EasyChair Download CFP (text)

Templates: CEURART style Proceedings (1‑column).

Key dates (AOE)

Abstract submission deadline (strongly encouraged)
Submission deadline
Notification
Authors' registeration deadline
Feb 6
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Workshop day
March 23

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Topics of Interest

The workshop aims to explore a diverse range of topics at the intersection of intelligent user interfaces and health. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, we seek to address key challenges and opportunities in designing intelligent, user-centered health technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Personalized Health Interventions

AI-driven personalized health recommendations based on individual data and behaviors.

AI-Augmented Diagnostics

Enhancing diagnostics and treatment recommendations with AI support.

Assistive Technologies

AI-driven interfaces for improved accessibility and support for disabilities.

Human-AI Collaboration

Optimizing teamwork between healthcare professionals and AI systems.

Behavioral Health Support

Applications supporting mental health, cognitive function, and wellness.

Wearable Health Monitoring

Interfaces for collecting and interpreting data from wearables and sensors.

Patient Engagement & Education

Intelligent tools promoting health literacy and active patient involvement.

Ethics & Societal Implications

Exploring privacy, bias, trust issues, and equitable design in intelligent health interfaces.

Rehabilitation Technologies

AI-powered tools for personalized rehabilitation and recovery tracking.

Health Information Presentation

Recommendations, summarization, and explanation tailored to user goals and context.

Multimodal & Conversational Interaction

Speech, text, vision, and mixed-initiative IUIs for actors across care pathways.

Behavior Change & Chronic Care

Well-being and management of chronic disease or mental health, with longitudinal support.

Important Dates (AoE)

Abstract submission deadline (strongly encouraged)

Submission deadline

Notification

Camera‑ready

Workshop day

23 March

Registration Deadline for Authors (Feb 6)

Program — March 23, 2026 (Draft)

Time	Title	Authors	Session	Link
09:00 – 09:10	Introduction		1
09:10 – 09:25	The Importance of Contextual Information in Clinical Decision Support: A Neonatal-Sepsis Case Study	Niels Helmantel, Hanna Hauptmann, Daniel Vijlbrief, Richard Bartels	1	View
09:25 – 09:40	It’s That Time Of The Month Again: Adjusting Period Tracking Apps To Include Partner Users	Shania Jane Martijn, Marit Bentvelzen, Hanna Hauptmann	1	View
09:40 – 09:55	Toward a Digital Physiotherapy Support System for Home Training: Survey Insights into Expectations and Requirements of Patients and Therapists	Daniela Blumberg, Marco Rahner, Daniel Seebacher, Philip Zimmermann, Daniel A. Keim	1	View
09:55 – 10:10	Final Happiness: What Intelligent User Interfaces Can Do for the lonely Dying	Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, Lyumanshan Ye, Yan Guan, Xiaolan Ding	1	View
10:10 – 10:17	Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Support System for Palliative Care	Seyed Nima Afzali, Sabahat Ölcer, Ayseguel Doganguen	1	View
10:17 – 10:24	Two-Level Personas to Support the Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Health Interfaces	Peter Brusilovsky, Khushboo Thaker, Mohammad Hassany, Behnam Rahdari, Youjia Wang, Vivian Hui, Heidi Donovan, Daqing He, Young Ji Lee	1	View
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break — 10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15	Dual Trajectories of User Engagement with Medical Generative AI: Cognitive Maturation and Attitudinal Recalibration	Yibo Meng, Qiuyu Long, Bingyi Liu, Yan Guan, Xiaolan Ding	2	View
11:15 – 11:30	Sanora: A Conversational AI Agent for Multimodal Digital Biomarkers of Mental Health	Matthew So, Michael Sobolev, Gregory Menvielle	2	View
11:30 – 11:45	Design Tradeoffs in Health Interfaces for Behavior Change	Michael Sobolev	2	View
11:45 – 11:52	Towards Scalable Therapist Training via Multi-Turn LLM-Based Client Simulation	Enea Gurra, Neha Deshpande	2	View
11:52 – 11:59	SmartPause: Designing a Reinforcement Learning Model for Reducing Screen Time	Gustavo Krüger, Nikhil Sachdeva, Yixue Zhao, Tianyi Li, Michael Sobolev	2	View
11:59 – 12:06	Talking to Your Data: Exploring Embodied Conversation as an Interface for Personal Health Reflection	Nikola Kovacevic, Bastien Husler, Di Zhuang, Rafael Wampfler, Barbara Solenthaler	2	View
12:06 – 12:13	Between Knowledge and Care: Evaluating Generative AI-Based IUI in Type 2 Diabetes Management Through Patient and Physician Perspectives	Yibo Meng, Ruiqi Chen, Bingyi Liu, Yan Guan, Xiaolan Ding	2	View
12:13 – 12:20	Understanding Elder Care AI Adoption through Self-Determination Theory	Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel, Leon Feldman, Mor Hodaya Maman, Ulrich Gartzke	2	View
12:20 – 12:30	Conclusion (wrap-up)		2

Organizers & Program Committee

Program Committee

Alain D. Starke — University of Amsterdam

Bart Knijnenburg — Clemson University

Federica Cena — University of Torino

Hanna Hauptmann — Utrecht University

Maxwell Szymanski — KU Leuven

Min Lee — Singapore Management University (SMU)

Shatha Degachi — TU Delft

Werner Geyer — IBM T.J. Watson Research

Niels van Berkel — Aalborg University

Marko Tkalcic — University of Primorska

Bereket Yilma — University of Luxembourg

Clara-Maria Barth — University of Zurich

Adir Solomon — University of Haifa

Tobias Schreck — Graz University of Technology

Stefan Hillmann — Technische Universität Berlin

Francisco Nunes — Fraunhofer AICOS, Porto

Olga c. Santos — UNED, Madrid

Ludovico Boratto — University of Cagliari

Noemi Mauro — University of Torino

Ine Coppens — University of Ghent

Soohwan Lee — UNIST

Edward Choi — KAIST

Stefan Lengauer — Graz University of Technology

Tariq Osman Andersen — University of Copenhagen

Xuhai Xu — Columbia University

Martin Wiesner — Heilbronn University

Hyunggu Jung — Seoul National University

We value diverse expertise and backgrounds.

Organizers

Venue & Travel

HealthIUI 2026 is co‑located with ACM IUI 2026 at the Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus.

ACM IUI 2026 Coral Beach Hotel & Resort

Contact

For sponsorship, collaborations, media, or questions, reach out to us:

Email: healthiuiworkshop@gmail.com

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