[iva] [Meetings] Call for Contributions for IROS 204 Workshop: Interactive Robots and AI for Healthcare

[Sebastian Schneider]

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Workshop on INTERACTIVE ROBOTS AND AI FOR HEALTHCARE
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at 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
  https://sites.google.com/view/iraih
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Interactive robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare have 
transformed medical practices and patient support, offering 
opportunities to enhance healthcare delivery and outcomes. These 
transformative technologies have been piloted across various domains,  
including treatment, rehabilitation, coaching, social assistance, and 
caregiving, potentially impacting how healthcare services are delivered. 
Innovative applications range from interactive surgical robots that 
enhance precision in operations to empathetic AI healthcare assistants 
that provide support and companionship to patients. These advancements 
aim to increase healthcare services' efficiency and effectiveness and 
make them more personalized and accessible. As this field continues to 
evolve, it presents a crucial area of research to explore its technical 
capabilities and address the inherent challenges and ethical and social 
considerations involved in its implementation. This workshop explores 
advancements, challenges, and future directions in interactive robotics 
and AI across medical and caregivingcaregiving domains, evaluating their 
obstacles and benefits in revolutionizing health and medicine.

We are calling for contributed presentations and demonstrations on all
aspects related, but not limited, to:
- (Socially) Assistive Robotics for People with Special Needs (e.g., 
older adults, people with health conditions or impairments)
- (Interactive) Rehabilitation Robotics and Physical Therapy
- Wearable Technologies
- Interactive Surgical Robotics and Minimally Invasive Procedures
- Human-Robot Interaction in Clinical Settings and its impact on patient 
engagement and satisfaction
- Mental Health Support and Therapy Robots
• Telepresence Robots for Remote Healthcare Delivery
- Ethical and Social Implications of Interactive Robotics in Healthcare
- Machine learning and its applications in healthcare robotics
- Case studies and real-world implementations of interactive robotics 
and AI technologies in healthcare environments
- Application focused Design Approaches (e.g., user-centered design, 
co-creation, action-based research, ethnographic studies)
Contributions have to be submitted as an extended abstract (2-4 pages 
without references) using the IEEE conference template.

Further submission information is available on the workshop website:  
https://sites.google.com/view/iraih

Important Dates:

- August 15, 2024 - Submission Deadline | submission 
website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iraih24
- September 02, 2024 - Acceptance Notification
- October 14, 2024 - Workshop


Invited Speakers:

- Shingo Shimoda, Professor, Intelligent Behavior Control Unit, Nagoya 
University
- Fady Alnajjar, Professor, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
- Sami Haddadin, Professor, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine  
Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Zen Koh, Co-Founder and Global CEO of Fourier Intelligence


Organizers:

- Sebastian Schneider (University of Twente)
- Anna-Lisa Vollmer (Bielefeld University)
- Marcela Munera (UWE Bristol)
- Carlos Cifuentes (UWE Bristol)

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