AI systems are deployed rapidly across domains of considerable social significance—in healthcare, education, employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate safeguards or accountability structures in place. At the same time, there is a growing interest in using participatory approaches for the design, development, and evaluation of AI systems across industry, academia and the public sector.
With the goal of exploring different perspectives of AI in PD to create a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions, we propose a workshop intendend to strength the community of researchers and practitioners interested in participatory design and AI. In particular, the workshop seeks to inquire into the intersection of PD and AI including aspects of mutual learning and co-designing with and about AI.
As steps towards establishing a community of practice on AI in PD , we seek to arrange a workshop in which relevant topics can be explored. Core topics that will be addressed in the workshop include:
- the use of AI tools in PD for design inspiration or co-ideation
- PD activities to collaboratively envision digital futures with AI
- mutual learning with and about AI
We consider the workshop to be mainly of interest for researchers and practitioners in HCI and PD, who facilitate participatory design or co-design activities as part of their work. To increase the possibilities for fruitful exchange of ideas, perspectives, and experiences, we aim to gather researchers and practitioners with various backgrounds and project experiences, who share a common interest in AI in participatory design activities.
Through the workshop we hope that participants can get hands-on experience and reflective thinking regarding AI and that the workshop can act as an arena for forming future research collaboration and identification of possible joint publications relevant to the topic.