Designing for Negotiation in Collaborative Healthcare

Collaborative healthcare is shaped by complex negotiations among patients, caregivers, and clinicians. However, current technologies focus primarily on monitoring and adherence, offering limited support for shared decision-making. Differences in knowledge, power, and goals often generate tension around treatment, lifestyle, and data-sharing decisions.

This workshop aims to bring together an interdisciplinary mix of HCI researchers, AI practitioners, clinicians, and designers to explore AI-mediated collaboration through hands-on activities, discussions, and speculative design stories.

Topics

• Design and evaluation of interactive health technologies for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals
• Collaboration, negotiation, and shared decision-making in care
• AI technologies, ethics and governance in healthcare
• Privacy, consent, and data-sharing in multi-stakeholder health ecosystems
• Participatory, co-design, and user-centered design methods in healthcare research
• Use of AI in clinical workflows and real-world constraints in the deployment of AI systems in care settings

The current program is tentative and all times are shown in WEST.

We invite researchers, designers, clinicians, and practitioners to participate in the Designing for Negotiation in Collaborative Healthcare: The Role of AI Mediators workshop at ACM Interactive Health 2026. This one-day, in-person workshop will combine pre-workshop asynchronous activities with interactive sessions, lightning talks, small-group discussions, and collaborative design activities. In this workshop we will explore how AI can support negotiation, shared decision-making, and collaboration between stakeholders, while foregrounding patient agency, empowerment, and ethical responsibility.

Participants will engage in scenario mapping, group discussion, speculative design stories, and structured reporting activities. These activities will foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and generate shared outputs highlighting challenges, opportunities, and future research directions for AI-mediated collaboration in healthcare.

Important Dates

Submission Guidelines

We welcome authors to submit a statement of interest or a position paper (up to 3 pages, ACM Master Template) addressing at least one workshop topic and include:

• Your background and relevant experience
• Healthcare context(s) of interest
• Perspectives on AI in healthcare collaboration or mediation

Submissions will be reviewed for relevance, diversity of perspectives, and contribution potential. At least one author must attend in person and register for both the workshop and conference.

If you have any accessibility requests, or any other questions regarding the workshop, please feel free to contact the organisers at djbranco (at) ciencias.ulisboa.pt