RAIP 2026
Responsible Use of AI Personas in Human-Centered Design and Research 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: The workshop received 17 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by two program committee members. The committee decided to accept all 17 papers for presentation. The authors of 8 papers submitted their final camera-ready versions for inclusion in the CEUR-WS proceedings.

• AI Personas in Highly Regulated Environments: Tools for Calibrating User Reliance? 1-6
  Miruna Maria Vasiliu, Renan Guarese
• AI Personas for UX Research in Large Scale Retail 7-13
  Karan Sharma, Abhijeet Phatak, Tatevik Petrosyan, Chittaranjan Tripathy
• Mapping Personas to Text Transformations: A Taxonomy Outline for Content Adaptation 14-20
  Andrea Sillano, Luigi De Russis, Tommaso Calò, Raphaël Troncy, Pasquale Lisena
• Grounding Persona-Driven Usability Simulation in Established Standards 21-33
  Oussama Touir, Farah Barika Ktata, Makram Soui
• Towards Realistic Artificial User-Guided Usability Test Executions Using GenAI 34-39
  Mathis Arends, Hendrik Winkelmann, Marie Griesbach, Norman Lahme-Hütig, Christian Grimme
• Ideal Persona AI in Real-time 40-45
  Pham Thi Ngoc Anh
• Beyond Authenticity: GenAI Personas as Affective Diplomats in Long Distance Families 46-53
  Qing Li, Yufeng Wu, Abdulrhman Alorini, Mohammed Althubyani, Ezwan Shah Abd Majid, Weijie Wang, Shang Chieh Lee, Raj Mahmud, Robert P. Spang, Sebastian Möller, Jaime Garcia, A. Baki Kocaballi
• Work Futures - Leveraging Retrieval Augmented Generation to Envision the Future of Work 54-67
  Kristen Olson, Iris Xiaoyu Qu, Lucy Boyd Schachter