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📢 Epitome Competition Winners | Epitome Session at the HAI Workshop 2026

  • 1.  📢 Epitome Competition Winners | Epitome Session at the HAI Workshop 2026

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    A sincere thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Epitome competition. We were delighted to see such strong engagement from the academic community and a wide range of creative ideas exploring AI, human–AI interaction, and social science experiments.
     
    The Oxford Human–Algorithm Interaction (HAI) Workshop 2026 will feature presentations from the Epitome winners. We warmly welcome the community to join the workshop and engage with these exciting research ideas.
     
    đź”— HAI Workshop registration:
    https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/human-algorithm-interaction-workshop-2026
     
    🤖 About Epitome
    Epitome is an AI-powered platform designed for social science experiments. It enables researchers to build experiments that integrate multiple LLMs, human–AI interaction environments, and randomized experimental designs, helping scholars explore complex social and behavioral questions.
     
    You can explore the platform and previous research projects here:
    đź”— Platform: https://www.epitome-ai.com/
    📚 Research papers: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01061
     
    🌍 Epitome Competition
    The Epitome competition is organized annually to support innovative experimental research using the AI-integrated platform. Each year, selected winners are invited to present their work at the Oxford Human–Algorithm Interaction Workshop and develop their research with the platform.
     
    We encourage researchers interested in AI-enabled social science research to follow future announcements.
     
    We look forward to seeing you in Oxford this July.
     
    #HumanAIInteraction #AIResearch #ComputationalSocialScience #Oxford #HAIWorkshop #Epitome


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    Kejia Hu
    Associate Professor
    University of Oxford Said Business School
    kejia.hu@sbs.ox.ac.uk
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