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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Call For Papers: HICSS 59 (2026)-Mini-track on
<b>Human-Like Conversational Agents: Chatbots, Digital Humans, and Virtual Influencers
<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For <b><u>Internet of Work and Play</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">HICSS-59: Jan 6th to 9th 2026| Maui, Hawaii<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This mini-track explores the transformative role of AI-powered conversational agents (e.g., chatbots and digital humans) in reshaping both professional and personal aspects of daily life. As AI-driven interactions
become more prevalent in workplaces, social media, entertainment, and customer service, understanding their impact is crucial. This mini-track delves into key topics such as trust formation, emotional engagement, user adoption, and the ethical implications
of integrating human-like AI agents into digital spaces. It also examines how these technologies influence human behavior, decision-making, and social interactions, ultimately redefining the way we communicate, collaborate, and engage within the digital environment
in both work and life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Recent studies underscore key advancements in virtual influencers, emotional interactions with AI avatars, and the implications of digital human realism on credibility and engagement. As AI-powered digital
humans become increasingly prevalent in marketing, social media, customer service, and virtual environments, understanding their psychological and behavioral effects is critical. This mini-track aims to explore themes such as consumer trust in AI-driven personas,
the persuasive power of digital humans, ethical dilemmas in AI-generated content, and the role of synthetic media in shaping social perceptions. Additionally, we seek to examine the intersection of AI, human identity, and digital embodiment, providing a platform
for interdisciplinary discussions on the future of AI-driven social interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We would like to position this mini-track as a place for researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds to share their research and ideas. There are a variety of important issues and topics of importance,
such as new technology and visual design advancements to human-like conversational agents, the behavioral, emotional, and even physical responses of the users while interacting with human-like conversational agents, the underlying cognitive processes underlying
the interactions, the impact of human-like conversational agents on the firm level or industry level, and ethical issues and societal considerations of the application of human-like conversational agents. Research could be wide-ranging, such as rich descriptive
statistics, theories, emergent and innovative topics, models and frameworks related to technologies and their impact on marketing, case studies, methods, qualitative research, etc. The topics include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Exploration of virtual influencers as emerging phenomena (i.e. credibility, virtues, Uncanny Valley)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Use of digital humans in live-streaming, customer service, and chatbots for e-commerce.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">AI-powered detection of social behaviors (i.e. loneliness)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The role of realism and machine learning performance in shaping trust<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Visualization technology to advance human-like conversational agents<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Design factors with creating human-like conversational agents<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Design of digital humans by combining human and computer cognitive power<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Analysis of machine learning, big data, data mining, and other underlying technologies and algorithms of digital humans<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Impact of digital humans on the individual level (decision-making, problem-solving, negotiation, and creativity/innovation)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Psychological and emotional effects of interacting with realistic human-like conversational agents
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Biases in interacting with human-like conversational agents<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The use of human-like conversational agents beyond individuals and its consequences in organizations<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Case studies on industry adoption of human-like conversational agents
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Use and economic implications of human-like conversational agents
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Social impact and ethics related to human-like conversational agents and their use<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Philosophical questions surrounding the idea of ‘using’ human-like conversational agents<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">April 15: Paper submission begins<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">June 15: Paper submissions deadline<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">September 4: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for the conference<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference Website: <a href="http://hicss.hawaii.edu/" target="_blank">http://hicss.hawaii.edu/</a><br>
Author Guidelines: <a href="http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/" target="_blank">
http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mini-track Co-Chairs</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan<br>
Department of Information System and Business Analytics<br>
Iowa State University<br>
<a href="mailto:lyuan@iastate.edu">lyuan@iastate.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mike Seymour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Discipline of Business Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The University of Sydney Business School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:mike.seymour@sydney.edu.au">mike.seymour@sydney.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A. Benedikt Brendel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Operations and Decision Technologies (ODT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Virtual Advanced Business Technologies Department (ABT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kelley School of Business, Indiana University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Email: <a href="mailto:alfbrend@iu.edu">
alfbrend@iu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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