[iva] CFP RO-MAN 24 WORKSHOP: Human-Robot Interaction for Wellbeing: Challenges and Opportunities of Using LLMs

[patricia alves-oliveira]

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HRI4Wellbeing: The 3rd Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Wellbeing: Challenges and Opportunities of Using LLMs @ IEEE RO-MAN’24 <https://www.ro-man2024.org/>

Important dates
Call for papers deadline: 15 June 2024
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2024
Camera-ready deadline: 22 July 2024
Workshop day: 26 August 2024
 
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Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/hri4wellbeing2024/home
 
Call for Papers
The main topic of our workshop will be the challenges and opportunities of using Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic applications for well-being. This workshop is strongly aligned with the RO-MAN 2024 theme of “Embracing Human-Centered HRI”, which seeks to design human-robot interactions “towards building a promising and excellent human quality of life, all for our wellness”.

Recently, the use of LLMs has spread rapidly in our society, from information retrieval to text classification, as well as robotic applications. Given these rapid advancements, recent studies have attempted to identify challenges and opportunities for using LLMs in various contexts, such as in healthcare and medicine, among others. These works have highlighted that the use of LLMs in healthcare and well-being pose risks in terms of data privacy, questionable credibility and accuracy of information, data bias,  interpretability of LLMs, role of LLMs, deployment of LLMs. However, there is a lack of analysis and understanding of the challenges and opportunities when using LLMs for robotic applications in well being.

Exploring the challenges and opportunities of using LLMs in robots for well-being is extremely important to gain insights into how these models affect the users’ perception of robots in these applications. The conversations to be held in this workshop can serve as the first stepping stone to guide the HRI community in designing robotic applications for well-being that leverage the use of LLMs in a responsible and ethical manner. 

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the fields of Social Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Affective Computing, Health,  Well-being, Design, Adaptive Machine Learning, Ethics, Social Sciences, Psychology, Law, etc. to discuss topics related to the use of LLMs in robots for well-being, the implications of LLMs integration into a physical robot, and the impact on users’ perception. 

We invite authors to submit their contributions as case study papers (2-4 pages long) or extended abstracts (1 page long), using the format provided by RO-MAN. All papers are to be submitted via the submission system of EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hri4w1).
 

Invited speakers
Prof. Emily S. Cross, ETH Zurich
Prof. Jesse Thomason, University of Southern California
Prof. Ryan Calo, University of Washington

List of Topics
Affective robotics for well-being
Socially assistive robots for well-being
Robotics assistant/companion/coach for well-being
Robotic design for well-being
User studies for well-being in the real world
Adaptation and personalization for well-being applications 
Machine learning for well-being
Concept papers on the role of robots for well-being
Methods to measure well-being
Ethics, Privacy, and Data Security Considerations
Linguistic Communication and Dialogue
LLMs for well-being robotics
 
Organising committee
Micol Spitale, Politecnico di Milano & University of Cambridge
Alyssa Kubota, San Francisco State University
Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, University of Michigan
Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge

Hybrid format, join our workshop:
In-person: Pasadena, California, USA
Remotely: TBD
August 26, 2024

Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to hri4wellbeing at gmail.com or ms2871 at cam.ac.uk  

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patrícia alves-oliveira
assistant professor of robotics <https://robotics.umich.edu/>, university of michigan
affiliated faculty at the center of ethics, society and computing <https://esc.umich.edu/>
i also volunteer for open style lab <https://www.openstylelab.org/>
this is my portfolio <https://patricialvesoliveira.com/>





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