Report on the Sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2018)

This year's conference broke a number of traditions set in America, HCOMP 2018 returned to Europe, where the very first HCOMP workshop had taken place in 2009. Besmira Nushi, Ece Kamar, and Eric interdisciplinary communities, we fostered new connections Horvitz were also singled out with an honorable among collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, mention for their paper "Towards Accountable AI: and human computation scholars and practitioners, Hybrid Human-Machine Analyses for Characterizing across diverse fields including humancomputer System Failure." Finally, Vikram Mohanty, David interaction (HCI), artificial intelligence, Thames, and Kurt Luther's presentation, "Are 1,000 economics, business, and design. Features Worth A Picture? Combining Crowdsourcing HCOMP was started by researchers from diverse and Face Recognition to Identify Civil War Soldiers," fields who wanted a high-quality scholarly venue for was given the Best Poster / Demo Presentation the review and presentation of the highest quality award. For this, we invited previous AAAI HCOMP conferences (and four submissions to a Works-in-Progress (WIP) and HCOMP workshops before that) to promote the most Demonstrations track, co-organized by Alessandro rigorous and exciting scholarship in this fast-emerging, Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) and Matteo multidisciplinary area.