We are excited to announce a special track on AI for Cross-Cultural Communication at the upcoming ArtsIT2025 international conference. This track invites contributions that explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cross-cultural communication, with a focus on how AI technologies can bridge cultural divides, promote intercultural understanding, and address the complexities of cultural differences in diverse contexts. We welcome research, case studies, and practical applications that examine the use of AI in fostering global connections, cultural exchange, and mutual respect across cultures.

We invite original research, conceptual papers, case studies, and best practice reports that explore these themes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including but not limited to AI, human-computer interaction, cultural studies, linguistics, education, ethics, and anthropology. We are particularly interested in work that addresses the practical implications and challenges of applying AI in cross-cultural communication, as well as contributions that offer insights into the ethical, social, and cultural implications of AI in global contexts.

We encourage submissions on the following themes, although papers on related topics are also welcome:

• Cultural Heritage Preservation and AI: Leveraging AI to curate, preserve, and enhance cultural heritage, including the digitalization of cultural artifacts, monuments, and traditions, and the role of AI in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.
• Curation of Cultural Datasets: Methods and challenges in curating diverse and representative cultural datasets for training AI models, ensuring that cultural context, authenticity, and diversity are accurately reflected and respected in AI systems.
• Language and Cultural Codes Translation: Exploring AI-driven advancements in translation technologies that bridge language barriers and decode cultural codes, facilitating communication between different cultural groups while preserving cultural nuances and meanings.
• Education Policy for Cross-Cultural Understanding: The role of AI in shaping education policies aimed at promoting cross-cultural awareness and understanding. This includes the use of AI to create inclusive educational content, tools, and curricula that reflect diverse cultural perspectives.
• Style and Traditions Modeling and Fusion: Research on AI’s ability to model and fuse various cultural styles, traditions, and artistic expressions. This could include the integration of diverse cultural elements in creative fields like art, design, music, and fashion through AI-based systems.
• Representation of Myth and Cultural Archetypes: Investigating how AI models and tools represent, reinterpret, or preserve myths, folklore, and archetypes across different cultures. This includes AI-generated content that reflects cultural narratives, beliefs, and values.
• Cross-Cultural Aesthetics and Ethics: Examining how AI systems can navigate and respect cross-cultural aesthetics, including the ethical challenges of cultural appropriation, bias, and representation in AI-generated content. This theme also explores how AI can contribute to fostering ethical practices in cross-cultural engagement.
• AI Fairness and Tolerance: Addressing the challenges of ensuring AI fairness in cross-cultural contexts, including the detection and mitigation of biases in AI algorithms that could disadvantage or misrepresent specific cultures, and the importance of promoting tolerance and inclusivity through AI.
• Individual and Social Cultural Preferences and Emotions: Exploring AI’s role in understanding and adapting to both individual and social cultural preferences, values, and emotions. This includes AI’s ability to recognize and respond to cultural differences in emotional expression, social norms, and communication styles.

Prof. Shlomo Dubnov
Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UC San Diego’s research center, CALIT2, USA

Shlomo Dubnov graduated from the Jerusalem Music Academy in composition and holds a doctorate in computer science from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the prestigious IDF Talpiot program. Prior to joining UC San Diego, he served as a researcher at the world-renowned Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music (IRCAM), in Paris, and later headed the multimedia track for the Department of Communication Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University, in Israel. Dr. Dubnov conducted numerous research projects on advanced audio processing and retrieval, computer generated music, and other multimedia applications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Secretary of IEEE’s Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music. Dr. Dubnov is currently Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UC San Diego’s research center, CALIT2, and teaches in the Music and Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts programs.

• Prof. Shlomo Dubnov, Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UC San Diego’s research center, CALIT2, USA

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer – LNICST series and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: ArtsIT Conference Proceedings.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Inspec, and Zentralblatt MATH.

Available Journals

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on AI and Robotics
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things (Scopus)

Authors have the opportunity to publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus, Ei-indexed, ESCI-WoS, Compendex) by paying an additional $250, discounted from the standard $400 rate for conference authors.

The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:  

• It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
• The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
• The article will be processed using the fast-track option.
• Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at [email protected] with the details of their article to begin processing.

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

– Regular papers should be up to 12-20 pages in length.
– Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

Paper submission

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section below).

How do I submit a paper in Confy?

1. Go to Confy+ website
2. Login or sign up as new user
3. Select your desired Track
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions

Alternatively, go to home page of Confy+ and click on “Open conferences”.

Submission guidelines

– Papers should be in English.
– Double-Blind Review. Papers have to be submitted anonymously.
– Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal.
   Such papers will be rejected without review.
– The paper submissions must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (see Author’s kit section below).
– Authors are required to adhere to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.

*As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images ought to have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text). 

Download HERE.