TimelyAI 2026: When Should Generative AI Assistants Intervene? Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria, June 22, 2026

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Position papers (5--10 pages including references) should be submitted using the official CEURART template with abstract, main body, references, and author information (non-anonymous). Submissions are due April 30, 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 7, 2026. At least one author must register for one conference day and attend, either online or in person (the latter is encouraged). Accepted papers will be published via CEUR Workshop Proceedings with author consent.

List of Topics

• What signals matter: Cognitive, behavioural, motivational, emotional, and contextual signals for intervention.
• How to detect these signals: Data sources, computational methods for real-time signal detection, and privacy and consent considerations.
• How to combine signals into a timing judgement: Frameworks for integrating signals into reliable timing decisions.
• How to evaluate intervention timing: Metrics, benchmarks, and approaches for assessing intervention effects.

Committees

Program Committee

• TBD

Organizing committee

• Yihang Zhao, PhD Candidate, King's College London
• Qing Xia, PhD Candidate, University College London
• Amy Rechkemmer, Postdoctoral Researcher, King's College London
• Yiwen Xing, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
• Lise Stork, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
• Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Associate Professor, King's College London
• Mark Whiting, Chief Scientist, Pareto & University of Pennsylvania
• Advait Sarkar, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Duncan P. Brumby, Professor, University College London
• Elena Simperl, Professor, King's College London

Publication

TimelyAI 2026 proceedings will be published via CEUR-WS.org -- CEUR Workshop Proceedings, with author consent. If authors do not agree to CEUR publication, accepted papers will only be listed on the workshop website and will not prevent authors from publishing extended versions in other venues.

Venue

TimelyAI is a half-day hybrid workshop at CHIWORK 2026, held at the Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria. Online participation will be supported via videoconferencing with speech caption support.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact@timelyai.site

Sponsors

This work is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/Y009800/1], funded through Responsible AI UK (KP0011); SIEMENS AG; and the Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Germany.