Niels van Berkel

As legal professionals increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into their daily work, established professional norms of reasoning, expertise, and ethical behaviour are being challenged. Generative AI (GenAI) tools are being rapidly adopted by legal professionals across many jurisdictions. Although these technologies offer significant potential benefits, concerns persist that they may degrade professional skills. Misuse also poses risks to legal professionalism and to the broader justice system. This workshop brings together legal professionals, researchers, and experts in AI and computing to discuss how GenAI tools may be designed so legal professionals develop skills to productively use artificial intelligence; and how we might guard against deskilling and cognitive offloading in high-stakes work. Our workshop will enable researchers working in this emerging yet contentious area to share findings, receive feedback, and propose new research and design ideas, contributing to a shared research agenda for future work on augmented legal practice.

Mental disorders deteriorate well-being in many ways. Clinical mental health care is insufficient and struggles to keep up with the growing demand for services in many parts of the world. Human–Computer Interaction researchers have focused on building different interactive systems that support mental well-being. In our work, we focus on collecting, peer-assessing, and assisting in the discovery of mental health self-care techniques through an online tool. Our target demographic is the higher education community. The implemented tool can offer new self-care techniques to its users, and our user studies validate its usefulness in capturing and offering valuable mental health care information. Further, we study how source disclosure affects the perception of the discovered techniques, finding no major differences in the measured variables. Finally, we discuss how user-generated self-care suggestions in this context warrants caution and the implications of our study.