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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 4 workshops, held at the 5th International Conference on Internet Science, St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2018: Workshop 1 : Detecting Social Problems in Online Content, Workshop 2: CONVERSATIONS, Workshop 3: The Future of Decentralized Governance: A Workshop on Encryption,Blockchains, and Personal Data, and Workshop 4: Internet as an issue: An international workshop on governmentand media narratives.  The 20 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions.The contributions of the Workshop 1: Detecting Social Problems in Online Content has united Russian scholars who work upon Russian-language datasets. Workshop 2: CONVERSATIONS: An international workshop on chatbot research and design regularly discusses the novel issues in their research and production area. Workshop 3: The Future ofDecentralized Governance: A Workshop on Encryption, Blockchains, and Personal Data. At this workshop scholars and industry representatives from France, the Netherlands, the UK, and Russia have discussed distributed governance technologies based on blockchain and other privacy-protecting technologies.Workshop 4: Internet as an issue: An international workshop on government and media narratives took a rare approach and regarded Internet as a focus for public discussion.

The 18 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: user and communication studies user experience and design, chatbots for collaboration, chatbots for customer service, and chatbots in education.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2020, which was held during November 23-24, 2020, hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2021, which was held during November 2021.Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 12 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 25 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2022, which was held during November 2022. The 12 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 27 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2023, which was held during November 2023.The 12 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They were organized in following topical sections: Understanding and Enhancing Conversational Interactions, LLM-driven Conversational Design and Analysis, Ethical Perspectives and Bias, Complementing Perspectives.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Chatbots and Human-Centered AI, CONVERSATIONS 2024, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, during December 4–5, 2024.The 12 full papers and 3 short papers  were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions.  They were organized in topical sections as follows: Understanding and Designing for Human-AI Interactions; Human-Centred AI in Education and Social Support; Conversational AI for Citizens and Customers.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 9th International Workshop on Chatbots and Human-Centered AI, CONVERSATIONS 2025, held in Lübeck, Germany, November 12-13, 2025.The 17 full papers and 7 short paper were selected from carefully reviewed 62  submissions. CONVERSATIONS 2025 were orgainzed in following topical sections as Interactions and Relationships with Chatbots and AI,Human-centred Trustworthy AI,Co-design and User Experience of Chatbots and AI, Professional Contexts and Applications and Use Cases.