CfP for TRAIL Conference is now online!

27. November 2025, von Theresa Pekarek Rosin

Foto: UHH Knowledge Technology

Dear all.

You are hereby invited to contribute to the 1st Transparent and Interpretable Robots (TRAIL) Conference, taking place April 16 - April 17 2026 in Catania, Italy.

Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/trail-conference

About the conference:

This conference is ideal for early–career researchers and students, offering a friendly environment to present short contributions including work-in-progress, novel concepts, and early results. It’s a great opportunity to receive constructive feedback and build international collaborations.

There are no registration fees, since this event is proudly supported by the TRAIL Marie Skłodowska–Curie European Union project, promoting transparency and interpretability in human–robot interaction.

Topics include (but not limited to):

- Causal and Counterfactual Reasoning in AI
- Cognitive Modeling for Interpretable and Human-Aligned AI
- Evaluation for Explainability, Trust, Transparency, and Faithfulness
- Explainable Reinforcement Learning (RL)
- Failure Recognition, Assessment, and Recovery in Robotic Scenarios
- Foundation models for Interpretability and Transparency
- Human and Context Awareness in Robotics
- Interactive Visualization and Explanation Interfaces
- Interpretable and Transparent Robot Behavior
- Knowledge-Based Robotic Design
- Multimodal and Grounded Explanations (Vision, Language, and Sensor Data)
- Multimodality and Language Grounding in Vision, Sound, Robotics, and Beyond
- Navigation, Planning, and Control in Robotic Systems
- Post-hoc Explanation Techniques
- Robotic Decision-Making
- Security and Ethics AI in Explainable Systems
- Trustworthiness, Faithfulness, and Robustness in AI and Robotics

Dates:

Deadline for Submission: 16th January, 2026
Paper Acceptance Notification: 13th February, 2026
Camera Ready Deadline: 14th March, 2026

Venue:

The Conference will be collocated with the SWEET Spring School at:
Museo della Rappresentazione
Via Etnea, 742, 95128 Catania CT, Italy

Submission Guidelines:

Authors are invited to submit original contributions (2-4 Pages excluding appendix and references) following the format provided at the website: https://sites.google.com/view/trail-conference/call-for-papers

We look forward to your contributions and seeing you at Catania!