Sociotechnical AI Governance

Opportunities and Challenges for HCI

CHI 2025 Workshop @ Yokohama, Japan

April 27, 2025

PACIFICO Yokohama & Hybrid

Submission deadline: February 17, 2025 AoE

Submission Website

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We stand at a pivotal time in technology development and its impacts on society. Rapid advancements in and adoption of frontier AI systems have amplified the need for AI governance measures across the public sector, academia, and industry.

To this end, we welcome your participation in the first CHI workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance, where we rally the interdisciplinary expertise of the HCI community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens.

Join us at the PACIFICO in Yokohama, Japan or online.


Call for Participation

As AI systems become increasingly powerful and pervasive, there is an urgent need to design effective AI governance measures around both technical and social factors. Sociotechnical AI governance recognizes that AI's real-world impacts are always a product of both technical capabilities and broader social factors including stakeholders, organization structures, power dynamics, and cultural norms. To explore this important emerging topic, we invite authors from across academia, industry, the legal domain, and the public sector to submit papers to the Sociotechnical AI Governance workshop at CHI 2025 (STAIG @ CHI '25).

This workshop aims to build community and collaboratively draft a research agenda for sociotechnical AI governance. In particular, we outline four governance challenges for authors to consider: anticipating high-priority risks to address with governance; identifying where to focus governance efforts and who should participate in and lead those efforts; designing appropriate interventions and tools to implement governance actions in practice; and evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions and tools in context.

Topics authors may choose to tackle include, but are not limited to:

  • Theoretical and empirical understanding of stakeholders' needs and goals in AI governance.
  • Novel interactive tools and interventions for collaborative governance.
  • Case studies of governance in various sociotechnical scenarios.
  • Evaluation methods for governance measures in practice.

Submission Guide

Format. Submitted papers should be up to four [4] pages in the ACM single-column format, excluding references and appendix materials. You can use ACM's LaTeX or Word templates. If you are using LaTeX, please use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} in your preamble.

Reviewing process. Submissions will go through a double-blind peer review process based on quality. Each paper will receive two high-quality reviews. We will advertise the accepted papers on our workshop website. We encourage submitted authors to also review for the workshop.

Attendance and presentation. Accepted papers are non-archival and will be presented as posters in the workshop. At least one author must register for and attend the workshop to present their paper.

Submission link. Coming soon!


Schedule

Event Who Duration Time
Opening remarks Workshop organizers 15mins 09:00 – 09:15 JST
Opening panel + Q&A Invited panelists 45mins 09:15 – 10:00 JST
Morning poster session Workshop attendees 60mins 10:15 – 11:15 JST
Morning ideation session Workshop attendees + organizers 45mins 11:15 – 12:00 JST
Lunch break Everyone 90mins 12:00 – 13:30 JST
Keynote speaker + Q&A Invited speaker 45mins 13:30 – 14:15 JST
Afternoon poster session Workshop attendees 60mins 14:30 – 15:30 JST
Afternoon ideation session Workshop attendees + organizers 45mins 15:30 – 16:15 JST
Cross-cutting discussion Workshop attendees + organizers 30mins 16:15 - 16:45 JST
Closing remarks Workshop organizers 15mins 16:45 – 17:00 JST

Schedule is tentative and subject to change.


Speakers and Panelists

Speakers and panelists coming soon!


Organizers

Kevin Feng

Kevin Feng

University of Washington

Rock Yuren Pang

Rock Yuren Pang

University of Washington

Tzu-Sheng Kuo

Tzu-Sheng Kuo

Carnegie Mellon University

Amy Winecoff

Amy Winecoff

Center for Democracy & Technology

Emily Tseng

Emily Tseng

Microsoft Research

David Gray Widder

David Gray Widder

Cornell Tech

Harini Suresh

Harini Suresh

Brown University

Katharina Reinecke

Katharina Reinecke

University of Washington

Amy X. Zhang

Amy X. Zhang

University of Washington