Assistive Agents for All

workshop @ UbiComp/ISWC 2026

October 11/12, 2026 | Shanghai, China

Workshop Theme

The Assistive Agents for All workshop invites researchers, practitioners, designers, and community stakeholders to submit work on AI agents that assist people in everyday life. We welcome technical, empirical, design, and position papers on agents that augment human capability while preserving agency, safety, privacy, accessibility, and accountability.

This workshop gathers scholars, industry practitioners, design professionals and community representatives from diverse backgrounds. It aims to explore the development and application of intelligent assistive agents in real life scenarios. The workshop accepts high quality original research papers, empirical studies, design explorations and perspective articles.

It embraces research efforts that integrate technical innovation with human oriented concepts. It also values discussions on responsible development and inclusive deployment of assistive AI systems, and promotes equitable and human friendly assistive agent technologies for all groups of users.

Topics of Interest

Agent Design and Core Capabilities

Architectures, planning, tool use and controllable autonomy for robust, flexible agent systems in diverse human life scenarios.

Multimodal Perception and Sensing Technologies

Vision, audio, language, wearables and multi-sensing technologies for environmental awareness and human need understanding.

Inclusive Assistance and Vulnerable Community Support

Assistive agents tailored to people with disabilities, aging populations and vulnerable communities.

Application Scenarios of Assistive Agents

Mobility, navigation, driving assistance, home service, rehabilitation, industrial and social robotics, healthcare and education.

Human-Agent Interaction and Ethical Governance

Shared autonomy, trust calibration, failure recovery, privacy, security, data governance and accountability.

Evaluation, Resources and Future Visions

Safety, robustness, fairness, explainability, datasets, benchmarks, field studies and inclusive coexistence.

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Call for Papers

Authors are invited to submit papers related to the topics of Assistive Agents for All workshop. Top three papers will be awarded for an oral talk. Outstanding submissions qualify for the best paper award.

Submission Types

Short Papers (max 4 pages)

Extended abstract, preliminary results, proof of concept, demo application, study findings, etc.

Full Papers (max 6 pages)

Mature research with complete evaluations. Evaluation criteria include novelty, technical quality, clarity, relevance to assistive agents, user impact, and ethical considerations.

Submission Instruction

Papers should be submitted through OpenReview AAA workshop.
Acknowledgments, References, and Appendix are excluded in the page limit.
Papers should follow the ACM format. The template can be found at UbiComp/ISWC 2026 formatting.
Authors are encouraged to submit supplementary files through OpenReview as a single zip file.
All submissions are anonymous and will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.
All accepted papers will be presented in a poster session.
Top three papers will be invited to present in the oral session.
Exceptional papers will be nominated for the Best Paper Award.

Other Information

Publication and Presentation Requirements

All accepted workshop contributions will be listed on the official workshop website and permanently archived in the ACM Digital Library as part of the UbiComp proceedings. Every accepted work requires at least one author to complete full registration for ~~both the conference and~~ the workshop, and deliver an in-person presentation.

Resubmission and Extension Policy

Researchers may adapt and extend accepted workshop work for submission to other peer-reviewed venues. In line with ACM standards, the new manuscript must include no less than 25 percent of meaningful conceptual additions beyond the original workshop content.

ACM Digital Library Archiving Opt-Out

Contributors who prefer not to have accepted work preserved in the ACM Digital Library may formally request an opt-out from the workshop organizers after receiving the paper acceptance notification.

Submission Confidentiality

All submitted manuscripts and corresponding review comments remain confidential and will not be publicly available on OpenReview. Only accepted papers will be accessible to the public.

Eligibility for Other Submitted/Published Works

Works under preparation or being submitted elsewhere are eligible. Papers already accepted or published by other venues are also welcome when relevant background information is clearly indicated.

For any other questions, please contact us via: insailab@outlook.com.

Important Dates (AoE)

CFP Released

May 18, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline

~~July 18, 2026~~
July 25, 2026

Full Paper Submission Deadline

~~July 23, 2026~~
July 30, 2026

Review Notifications

~~August 27, 2026~~
August 13, 2026

Camera-ready Submission

~~September 10, 2026~~
August 20, 2026

Workshop Dates

October 10-11, 2026

Accepted Papers

Best Paper Award

TBA

Oral Presentations

When Does a Constraint Become Assistance? Evaluating Visible, Repairable Boundaries in Historical Role-Play Agents

PenHarmony: A Multimodal Assistive Agent with Metric-Grounded Coaching for Hard-Pen Calligraphy Practice

FolloTask: Bridging the Intention-Execution Gap through Agent-Mediated Contextualization

Poster Presentations

''I Feel Judged'': Fear of Judgment and Informal Use of Conversational AI Among Socially Anxious Indian Students

Designing for Child Agency in a Client-Orchestrated Assistive Agent for Interest Exploration

HealthPilot: An LLM-based Personal Health Agent Leveraging Wearable Data for Comprehensive Health Management

Somni: An Al Companion System for Intervening in Bedtime Procrastination among Older Adults

Whether, Not Where: A Day-Level Forecast Can Calibrate an Assistive Agent's Autonomy but Not Its Decisions

Act, Ask, Await, Abstain: Reliability-Gated Selective Assistance for Longitudinal Wearable Data

WallCoach: A Contact-Free Tennis Wall-Practice Assistant Using mmWave Radar and Acoustic Sensing

How Assistive Agents May Change Routine Contact in Student Support at a Chinese University

Schedule

The Assistive Agents for All workshop will be a hybrid version for audience, with both in-person and virtual attendance options.

Date / Time: October 11th, 2026. 14:00-17:30.
Venue: Shanghai International Convention Center (SICC), China.
Room: Room5.
Zoom meeting link: Join Zoom meeting
Meeting ID: 865 6041 0279
Passcode: InSAI

Time	Session	Speaker/Topic
14:00 - 14:05	Opening	Welcome, Team Introduction, and Workshop Motivation
14:05 - 15:05	Invited Talk	Bing Liu (Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) Brain machine integration and it's application
15:10 - 15:20	Oral 1	"When Does a Constraint Become Assistance? Evaluating Visible, Repairable Boundaries in Historical Role-Play Agents"
15:20 - 15:30	Oral 2	"PenHarmony: A Multimodal Assistive Agent with Metric-Grounded Coaching for Hard-Pen Calligraphy Practice"
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session	• "When Does a Constraint Become Assistance? Evaluating Visible, Repairable Boundaries in Historical Role-Play Agents" • "PenHarmony: A Multimodal Assistive Agent with Metric-Grounded Coaching for Hard-Pen Calligraphy Practice" • "FolloTask: Bridging the Intention-Execution Gap through Agent-Mediated Contextualization" • "''I Feel Judged'': Fear of Judgment and Informal Use of Conversational AI Among Socially Anxious Indian Students" • "Designing for Child Agency in a Client-Orchestrated Assistive Agent for Interest Exploration" • "HealthPilot: An LLM-based Personal Health Agent Leveraging Wearable Data for Comprehensive Health Management" • "Somni: An Al Companion System for Intervening in Bedtime Procrastination among Older Adults" • "Whether, Not Where: A Day-Level Forecast Can Calibrate an Assistive Agent's Autonomy but Not Its Decisions" • "Act, Ask, Await, Abstain: Reliability-Gated Selective Assistance for Longitudinal Wearable Data" • "WallCoach: A Contact-Free Tennis Wall-Practice Assistant Using mmWave Radar and Acoustic Sensing" • "How Assistive Agents May Change Routine Contact in Student Support at a Chinese University"
16:00 - 17:00	Invited Talk	Eun Kyoung Choe (University of Maryland, College Park) Designing Care for Older Adults
17:05 - 17:15	Oral 3	"FolloTask: Bridging the Intention-Execution Gap through Agent-Mediated Contextualization"
17:20 - 17:30	Best Paper Award	Best Paper Award Presentation