Call for Participation (CFP)

Workshop title: Healthcare Beyond Reaction: Harnessing AI and sensing for proactive care — Beyond Reaction.

We invite submissions that explore the design, evaluation, ethics, and deployment of AI and sensing technologies for proactive health and wellbeing. Submissions should focus on topics such as:

• bridging physical and mental health insights
• personalization and bias mitigation
• sustaining engagement while protecting privacy
• explainability
• evaluation methods for lived contexts
• socio-technical governance and equitable deployment

Submission format

• Poster/position/work-in-progress/provocative papers submitted as PDF, ≤ 4 pages, single-column ACM submission template (references excluded).
• At least one author must register and attend the conference and workshop.

Review criteria

Submissions will be reviewed for:

• Relevance to workshop topics and potential to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion.
• Clarity and promise of contribution (novelty, insight, or provocative framing).
• Fit with practical, deployable, or ethically-grounded pathways to proactive care.

Registeration Support

Selected submissions will be provided registeration support for the workshop.

Publication

Accepted submissions will be published on the workshop website and archived on Zenodo for open access.

How to submit

Submit via the submission link. Submission Deadline: 5/7/26 AoE. Questions: hcbeyondreaction@gmail.com.

Attendance without submission

For those interested in attending the worshop without submission, please feel free to fill the interest form via this link. Attendence Interest Deadline: 5/17/26 AoE. Questions: hcbeyondreaction@gmail.com.