Toward Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration: From Interactive Intelligence to Collaborative Autonomy

Topic Information

Dear Colleagues,

Human-AI Collaboration represents a paradigm shift from automation toward a synergistic symbiosis between humans and autonomous systems, in which artificial intelligence augments human cognition, creativity, and decision-making while remaining aligned with human values and intentions. Rooted in Human-Centered AI (HCAI), this field integrates advances in foundation models, adaptive interfaces, explainable AI, sensor-driven perception, and socio-technical systems design to enable trustworthy, ethical, resilient, and context-aware collaboration.

Recent progress in large language models, multimodal agentic AI, interactive machine learning, and intelligent sensing technologies (e.g., IoT, wearable, and environmental sensors) has expanded AI’s role from a tool to a proactive partner. However, critical challenges remain: calibration of trust, transparency and explainability, shared situation awareness, dynamic allocation of decision authority, preservation of human agency, accountability and ethical governance, privacy, security, safety, robustness under uncertainties, cognitive workload balancing, and evaluation methodologies beyond accuracy-centric metrics.

This Topic invites contributions that examine theoretical foundations, computational architectures, empirical evaluations, and real-world deployments of collaborative AI systems across domains such as healthcare, defence, education, industry, and smart environments. Emphasis is placed on measurable team performance, human agency, adaptive autonomy, inclusive design, regulatory compliance, and long-term socio-technical sustainability.

By bridging technical innovation with human factors research, this issue aims to define the next generation of intelligent systems that amplify human capabilities while preserving accountability, transparency, and human oversight.

Dr. George Margetis
Dr. Helmut Degen
Dr. Stavroula Ntoa
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
AI ai	6.5	7.3	2020	19.2 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Inventions inventions	2.4	5.7	2016	21.9 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction mti	3.3	6.6	2017	21.7 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Robotics robotics	3.6	7.4	2012	23.7 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Sci sci	4.1	5.4	2019	26.7 Days	CHF 1400	Submit
Sensors sensors	4.0	9.4	2001	17.8 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Standards standards	-	-	2021	26.8 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Technologies technologies	5.2	6.7	2013	19.1 Days	CHF 1800	Submit

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