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 (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

The Influence of Extraversion and Neuroticism on Technology Acceptance and Cognitive Dissonance in LLM Usage
Alicia Unland, Marc-André Heidelmann, Kristina Schaaff

A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture for Multimodal and Multilingual Human–Machine Interaction
Nana Schlage, Toni Thelen, Lukas Cramer, Edwin Naroska, Gudrun Stockmanns

A Novel Trap Jamming Technique to Defeat Cognitive Radar
Heath Couture, Qinghan Xiao

Cognitive Foundations of Real-Time Language Communication: Toward a Theoretical Framework of Behavioral Linguistics
Muneo Kitajima, Makoto Toyota, Jérôme Dinet, Katsuko T. Nakahira

AMICA: Accessible Multimodal Interaction Conversational Assistant for School Children with Intellectual Disabilities
André Frank Krause, Artem Savelov, Carrie Ching, Kyra Kannen, Karola Pitsch, Nele Wild-Wall, Christian Ressel

A Comparative Evaluation of RAG and GraphRAG for Open-Ended Question Answering
Jadesola Osinowo, Abiodun Adebayo, Sonya Coleman, Dermot Kerr, Justin Quinn

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

A Reference Architecture for Pro-adaptive Cognitive Assistive Technology
Sebastian Hauscheid, Sarah Büscher, Sinan Yavuz, Jordan Schneider, Michał Stolarz, André Frank Krause, Robin Grashof, Oviya Rajavel, Swathy Satheesan Cheruvalath, Teena Chakkalayil Hassan, Christian Ressel, Nele Wild-Wall, Edwin Naroska, Thomas Nitsche

Effectiveness of Attribute-Matching Agents on User Impressions and Recommendation Satisfaction in Human-Agent Interactions
Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Reika Goda

Self-Competitive Simplification: Competition between Forward and Backward Simplification in Multi-Layered Neural Networks
Ryotaro Kamimura

Behaviour Modeling of Virtual Autonomous Driving Agent Using Voice Command in Risky Scenarios
Dilyana Budakova, Velichko Minev