Organizers:

  • Sudhakar Mishra, IIT Kanpur, India
  • Shrikant Malviya, SVNIT, Surat, India
  • Varsha Singh, Postdoc, IIIT Allahabad, India
  • Mohammed Asif, Postdoc, IIT Bombay, India
  • Mr Sumit Singh, UPES University, Dehradun, India

This special session aims to bring together researchers, students, and industry professionals to discuss recent developments, challenges, and applications in Cognitive Computing. The focus is on human-centred design, generative models, assistive intelligence, and the ethical use of AI systems. We invite high-quality contributions exploring interdisciplinary approaches to cognition, perception, and intelligent systems

Topic of Interest (but not limited to):

  • Role of Generative Models in Cognitive Computing
  • Fairness, Bias, and Accountability in AI Systems
  • Assistive Intelligence, Human-Centered AI, and affective computing
  • Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
  • Models in Computational Cognitive Science
  • Generative AI for Vision and Language
  • Augmented & Virtual Reality in Cognitive Tasks
  • User Experience Design and Evaluation
  • Emerging trends and technologies in HCI
  • Cross-modal ML/DL Applications in Vision & Language

Submission Guidelines: All submissions must comply with the IHCI-2025 submission guidelines. Authors are required to submit their papers electronically via the Microsoft CMT portal, under the track entitled “Special Session 1: CogComp2025.”