PREC2019:: Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching Workshop in conjunction with HRI Conference 2019 EXCO Convention Center Daegu, South Korea, March 11, 2019 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prechri2019 |
Submission deadline | January 23, 2019 |
PREC2019 is a full-day workshop, offers a forum for researchers from a variety of backgrounds (i.e. physiotherapist, psychologist, computer scientist, clinical researchers, industry) to discuss the potentials and limitations of using robots to promote physical activity and rehabilitation. Looking across disciplinary boundaries we hope to establish a common understanding of the needs for potential target groups namely children, elderly, people need physical rehabilitation. We invite participants to share their experiences on the requirements and challenges implementing and deploying robot coaches / robotic platforms and applications that could motivate people to start and adhere to a physical activity program and rehabilitation.
Submission Guidelines
The paper format conforms roughly to an HRI submission:
The allowed length is between 4 and 6 pages (including the references) depending on the contribution of the work (position papers, previous/ongoing work or novel work). Accepted papers will be presented as a talk of about 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. Submitted papers should conform to the ACM publication format. ACM Categories and Subject Descriptors section and Author Keywords are mandatory to be included on the first page for your final version. The results described in the submission must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. For templates and examples follow this link:
Submissions within the scope of the workshop will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their relevance, originality, clarity and contribution. Selected papers will require that one author registers for and attends the workshop. As opposed to the HRI 2019 main conference, there will be no rebuttal phase.
List of Topics
We seek contributions (i.e. research paper, position paper, system paper, design papers) concerning, but not restricted to, the following topics:
- Applications of social robots used for promoting physical activity or rehabilitation
- Activity recognition systems for physical activity or coaching applications
- System architectures for (robotic) coaching systems
- Motivational and persuasive models for personal robots
- AI methods for exercising and coaching companions
- Preference learning and user adaptation for physical activity assistance
- Psychological aspects of working out with robot companions
- Studies with focus groups (i.e. elderly, children, adolescents, people with physical/cognitive impairments or cardiovascular diseases)
- Ethical consideration of implementing assistive/persuasive robot companions
- Potentials and limitations of using robots to promote physical activity
- Studies on the potential markets for exercising companions
- Medical and health-related issues of physical inactivity
- Clinical view on deploying robotic companions
- Hardware designs and design requirements for personal coaching/rehabilitation robots
Committees
Organizing committee
Invited Speakers
Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Ben Gurion University
Elisabeth Broadbent, University of Auckland (TBC)
Venue
The conference will be held at EXCO Convention Center in Daegu, Korea on March 11, in conjunction with the 14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to sebschne@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de or arzu.guneysu@epfl.ch