Preface to the Third Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Machine Interaction (AIxHMI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a fundamental ally to improve the reliability, efficiency, and effectiveness of Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) systems. This is especially true considering the latest advancements of wearable and sensing technologies, which are accompanying us in every-day life, and are exploited in different applications spanning from continuous patient monitoring to immersive video-game experiences. While these novel applications can positively impact a user’s life, work, education, health, and free-time, their development should be rigorous and consider a possible real-time configuration, the quality and quantity of available data, the portability of the employed technologies, the scalability of AI strategies, and the ethical and regulatory aspects concerning the use of personal data, just to name a few challenges. The AIxHMI workshop aims to connect researchers and practitioners from different fields to collect multidisciplinary contributions on topics concerning HMI and especially on the influence that AI has in the interaction between humans and machines. Thirteen papers have been submitted to the third edition of AIxHMI. Out of these, two have been accepted for oral presentation as abstracts, five as short papers, and five as regular papers. The authors and three invited speakers have presented very diverse topics and approaches bounded to the HMI field, from the use of large language models to the assessment of agreement and reliance in learning tasks, from biomarkers and multimedia signals to robots used in treating autism spectrum condition, from generative art to the use of augmented reality.