🚨 Call for Contributions – BEHAVE-AI @ MuC 2025 🤖🧠 Towards the Human-Centered Design and Evaluation of Proactive AI Agents 📅 Workshop Date: August 31, 2025 📍 Location: TU Chemnitz, Germany 🔗 Website: hcai.eu/behave-ai 📄 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) How can we design proactive AI systems that truly understand, support, and respect human needs? If that question resonates with you, we invite you to contribute to BEHAVE-AI, a workshop co-located with Mensch und Computer 2025 at TU Chemnitz on August 31, 2025. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from HCI, AI, cognitive science, design, and industry to explore how proactive AI agents can be designed and evaluated in ways that are ethically sound, socially appropriate, and human-centered. ✨ We invite position papers (max. 8 pages, CEUR format) on topics including, but not limited to: Core challenges in designing human-centric proactive AI agents Balancing autonomy, initiative, and user control Evaluating user experience, trust, and perceived agency Case studies across domains (e.g., education, healthcare, productivity) Timing, relevance, and context-awareness in proactive behavior Ethical, social, and psychological dimensions of AI initiative 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Organized by: Matthias Kraus – Augsburg University Nima Zargham – University of Bremen Ilhan Aslan – Aalborg University Martin Murer – University of Salzburg Naja Kathrine Kollerup Als – Aalborg University Thomas Weber – LMU Munich Carolin Schindler – University of Ulm Justin Edwards – University of Oulu Elisabeth André – Augsburg University