Format and Duration
Format: On-site, half-day workshop (4 hours). Should the number of qualified applicants exceed capacity, the session will be expanded from a half-day to a full-day format.
Date: June 9th, 2026
Style: Highly interactive, combining short presentations, hands-on sessions, think-aloud protocols, and group discussion.
Schedule (Half Day)
9:30–9:40 — Welcome & Introduction
- Opening remarks from organisers
- Overview of AI-generated trends
- Goals and outputs of the workshop
9:40–10:00 — Lightning Talks Introduction (Optional Mini-Tutorial)
- 2×5-minute talks given by the multi-disciplinary workshop hosts regarding their backgrounds and interests in the topic of the workshop
10:00–11:00 — Think-Aloud Exercise: Individual Reasoning
- Participants examine curated sets of AI-generated and authentic images/videos
- Individual judgment task with think-aloud protocols
- Facilitators record reasoning patterns through local edge AI transcription of think-aloud outputs, workshop discussion, and interviews. This keeps material local and secure without relying on API calls.
Break — 11:00–11:15
11:15–12:15 — Contributions and Discussion
- Groups collaboratively articulate reasoning, points of disagreement, and decision strategies.
- Exploration of accessibility-related issues in media judgment
- Participants present their short workshop paper contributions and relate them to the work that was done in the earlier activity.
12:15–12:30 — Closing and Next Steps
- What did we learn about human reasoning?
- Collate tactics, processes, and strategies that were used as part of the sensemaking and sensegiving exercise
- A summary of insights will be presented via a workshop website post conference.
- Invitation to contribute to follow-up publications
- Invitation to run the study design at home institutions
Workshop Close & Lunch — 12:30