The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

Wizard-of-Oz Testing as an Instrument for Chatbot Development An experimental Pre-study for Setting up a Recruiting Chatbot Prototype
Stephan Böhm, Judith Drebert, Sebastian Meurer

Bias – A Lurking Danger that Can Convert Algorithmic Systems into Discriminatory Entities
Thea Gasser, Eduard Klein, Lasse Seppänen

Estimation of Body Part Acceleration While Walking Using Frequency Analysis
Shohei Hontama, Kyoko Shibata, Yoshio Inoue, Hironobu Satoh

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Intent Identification and Analysis for User-centered Chatbot Design: A Case Study on the Example of Recruiting Chatbots in Germany
Stephan Böhm, Judith Drebert, Sebastian Meurer, Olena Linnyk, Jens Kohl, Harald Locke, Levitan Novakovskij, Ingolf Teetz

A Preliminary Analysis of the Physiological Response Generated by Negative Thoughts
Nagore Sagastibeltza, Ainhoa Yera, Asier Salazar-Ramirez, Raquel Martinez, Javier Muguerza