<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="en-NO" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"> <div class="WordSection1"> Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit your papers to a special session at the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication - RO-MAN 2023 in Busan, Korea. "Humanoid Robots in Healthcare: exploring real world applications" (code 5x7h1) Topics ====== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Experiences and approaches in real world projects • Ethical aspects in human-robot interaction in the health context • Safety and privacy issues • Healthcare staff and patients’ perspectives • Discussion of the relevance of humanoid robots in healthcare Important Dates ============== Submission deadline: 17 March 2023 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: 26 May 2023 Final paper submission: 30 June 2023 Conference: 28 to 31 August 2023 Submission ========== Authors should follow the submission guidelines for **regular papers** at RO-MAN 2023 using the code 5x7h1 when submitting. You can use a LaTeX or MS-Word templates provided by the conference Submission site: <a href="https://ras.papercept.net/">https://ras.papercept.net/</a> Session code: 5x7h1 Scope ===== In recent years there has been a clear growth on the interest regarding humanoid robots in several everyday contexts. In this session, we will explore the challenges and opportunities of communication between humans and humanoid robots linked to real world applications in healthcare. With the increasing technological readiness of humanoid robots, new challenges have risen in the attempt to bring humanoid robots from the research labs and developers’ facilities to the real world. Aspects such as the ethical challenges, legal, safety & security specifications, issues with usability and acceptability in deployment, and operational concepts can present significant barriers to a smooth implementation – how can these aspects be tackled early in the process of implementing humanoid robots for healthcare? This special session aims to highlight the specific challenges of the application domain. We aim to nurture a diverse community of experts and aim to encourage classical research topics in human-robot interaction to present their research within the specific context of healthcare, e.g. to investigate how different approaches and interests of user groups (patients, healthcare staff, health services administration, and even the patients’ families) could be accommodated. Organising committee =================== Please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organisers if you have any questions regarding this special session. Alexandra Fernandes (alexandra.fernandes@ife.no) Institute for Energy Technology, Norway Linda Sørensen (linda.sorensen@sunnaas.no) Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital & University of Agder, Norway Patrick Holthaus (p.holthaus@herts.ac.uk) University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Best Regards, <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:39.6pt"> <td width="117" valign="top" style="width:87.95pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:39.6pt"> <img border="0" width="94" height="60" style="width:.9791in;height:.625in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D94B69.B1856920" alt="signature_1016329433"><o:p></o:p> </td> <td width="226" valign="top" style="width:169.3pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:39.6pt"> Alexandra Fernandes, Ph.D<o:p></o:p> Senior Scientist<o:p></o:p> Humans & Automation<o:p></o:p> Digital Systems<o:p></o:p> <a href="mailto:Alexandra.fernandes@ife.no">Alexandra.fernandes@ife.no</a><o:p></o:p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Follow us on:<o:p></o:p> <a href="https://www.ife.no/no">www.ife.no </a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/energiteknikk">Facebook </a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/energiteknikk">Twitter </a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/institute-for-energy-technology/">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/humansofife/">Instagram</a><o:p></o:p> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </div> </body> </html>