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Program Overview

Main conference takes place at Tier University, Campus I, room A9/10 - more information here - 

Detailed Program (find your directions here)

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026

17:00 – 20:00 Registration and Welcome Reception

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:30 Opening 

09:30 – 10:30 Keynote Armin Weinberger, Saarland University

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session 

11:00 – 12:00 Session 1: AI-Supported Learning: Feedback and Assessment

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Session 2:  AI-Mediated Collaboration and Regulation

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session

15:00 – 17:00 Session 3: Designing Human-AI Collaboration

19:30 Conference Dinner at von Nell 

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026

09:30 – 10:30 Session 4: Collaborative Communities and Mutual Assistance

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session

11:00 – 12:00 Session 5: Well-being and Care in Collaborative Settings 

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Poster Session

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session

15:00 – 16:30 Session 6: Communication and Collaborative Knowledge Practices

16:30 – 17:00 Closing

18:00 City Tour (meeting at 17:45 at Tourist Information Office, Porta Nigra)

Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 

Trip Cochem 

Meeting at 9:15 am at Franz-Ludwig Straße near Porta Nigra (find more information here)

Sessions

Keynote

Transactive Knowledge Co-Construction in CSCL

Jointly creating, refining, and transforming understanding through interaction builds on transactive ways of sharing and scrutinizing perspectives. Transactivity is the extent to which partners “operate on the reasoning of the other”. Inducing transactive interaction patterns onto partner interactions in CSCL has shown promise through different instructional approaches: One is Scripts that feed-forward expectations to learners, specifying, sequencing, and distributing roles and activities across group of learners. Another approach is Group Awareness Tools that feed-back visualized real-time information on the joint learning processes. Building on LLMs, Collaborative Conversational Agents may realize both, feedforward and feedback, ideally combining the strengths of human and machine interaction. In this talk, we will delve into these approaches of scaffolding transactivity in CSCL and discuss differences between human-human and human-AI interaction for knowledge co-construction.

Prof. Dr. Armin Weinberger is the director and founder of the EduTech Department at Saarland University. His research focuses on computer-supported collaborative learning, argumentative knowledge construction, transactivity, and co-design. Armin founded and coordinated the EARLI SIG on Argumentation, Dialogue, and Reasoning from 2016 to 2020; he coordinated the ISLS CSCL Community from 2018 to 2022; became an ISLS Fellow in 2025; joined the EARLI Board in 2020; and is the current president of EARLI.

Session 1: AI-Supported Learning: Feedback and Assessment (Session Chair: Nelson Baloian)

[Full] Evaluating LLM-Generated Feedback in Distance Project-Based Learning: Learner Perceptions and Comparison with Teacher Feedback
Kosuke Sasaki, Tomoo Inoue

[Full - online] AI-Assisted Formative Assessment in Programming Education: Comparing LLM-Based and Teaching Assistants
Eleni A. Dimitriadou, Sondre Aune Stokke, Sebastian Hegreberg, Andy Nguyen, Michail Giannakos

Session 2: AI-Mediated Collaboration and Regulation (Session Chair: Armin Weinberger)

[Full] Designing an AI-Mediated Collaboration Regulator for Pair Programming: A Socio-Technical Design Framework
Mamoun Nawahdah

[WiP] Exploring the Role of Personality-Driven LLMs in Human-AI Collaboration
Ishari Amarasinghe, Jacopo Amidei, Clara Pagès-Gallego, Salvatore Romano, Rubén Nieto Luna
 

Session 3: Designing Human-AI Collaboration (Session Chair: Benjamin Weyers)

[Full] A Coordination Layer for Explainable LLM-Driven Process Selection  
Marcel Pehlke, Marc Jansen

[Full - online] Effects of Motion Parameters on User Perceptions of a Physical Monitor Agent for Learning Support  
Yusei Ikeda, Ryo Matsubayashi, Kenro Go, Yusuke Ichikawa, Hironori Egi, Akihiro Miyata

[Full - online] Preliminary Evaluating Cognitive Delegation in AI-Assisted Science Fiction Prototyping through Time-Lag Analysis  
Tomoya Minegishi, Kenji Nakamura, Hirotaka Osawa

[WiP] Architectural Challenges for Human-in-the-Loop Federated Learning in Collaborative AI Systems  
António Ferreira, João Maldonado, Dennis Paulino, Carlos Duarte, Marco Oliveira, Ademar Aguiar, Filipe Correia, Hugo Paredes
 

Session 4: Collaborative Communities and Mutual Assistance (Session Chair: Tomoo Inoue)

[Full - online] Predicting Interdisciplinary Collaborations: A Multi-Layered Network Approach
Roger G. March, Jordi Borrell, Juan Miguel Alfonso Habana, Michele Starnini, Davinia Hernández-Leo

[Full - online] A Prototype Development of a Serious Game to Raise Awareness of Mutual Assistance During Disaster Evacuation
Masakazu Furuichi, Tomohiro Kokogawa, Akihiro Nakamura, Kan Shimazaki, Megumi Aibara, Keihiro Ochiai

Session 5: Well-being and Care in Collaborative Settings (Session Chair: Ulrich Hoppe)

[Full] Mining Weak Signals in Caregiver Discussions: A Preliminary Study on a Public Health Forum Corpus
Paul Cariou, Kaoutar Akhsass, Luiz Angelo Steffenel, Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro

[WiP] “Am I Okay?”: Mapping the Students’ Individual and Collective Well-being Journey from Self-Assessment to Self-Determination
Khadija El Aadmi-Laamech, Patricia Santos, Davinia Hernández-Leo

Session 6: Communication and Collaborative Knowledge Practices (Session Chair: Nico Feld)

[Full] Sharing Anonymized Silence Motives: Impact on Mutual Understanding and Discussion Fluency  
Koki Yanagii, Atsuto Kurokochi, Kazuyuki Iso, Masayuki Ihara, Minoru Kobayashi

[Full] From Scoring to Collaborating: A Scoping Review of Automated Writing Evaluation for Argumentative Writing in Higher Education  
Valentina Aravena, Nelson Baloian, Claudio Álvarez, Gustavo Zurita

[Full] Posing and Improving Educational Questions for Video Learning Materials Using a Crowdsourcing Platform  
Ari Nugraha, Tomoo Inoue