RoboHEC20: Robots for Health and Elderly Care |
Website | https://sites.google.com/view/robohec |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robohec20 |
Submission deadline | September 3, 2020 |
Numerous robotic solutions have been designed and developed for use in healthcare, such as surgical devices, logistic robots, telepresence devices or companion robots. Some of these technologies are already implemented in hospital settings and are used on a daily basis, while others have not matured to that stage yet. Many solutions have been developed and successfully tested in a research context but fail to have substantial impact beyond the research environment for various reasons. Due to the complex nature of the domain, with many different stakeholders being involved, it is nontrivial to develop viable use cases and a joint understanding for roboticists and healthcare professionals. These complexities are the motivation for the organization of the RoboHEC workshop, where presenters and attendees will explore reasons for successes but also failures of robotic solutions for health and elderly care, discuss forward-thinking solutions as well as current challenges in this domain including technical challenges but also aspects such as ethics.
We expect the attendance of expert stakeholders related to this field: roboticists, human-robot interaction researchers, health and elderly care managers/professional, robot ethicists, etc. We will also welcome and encourage contributions from students and early-career researchers, and contributions from health and elderly care managers or professionals who are not necessarily used to writing scientific papers. RoboHEC will provide a forum in which all participants will be encouraged to express their opinions and have honest and pragmatic discussions on how robotics can play a significant role in health and elderly care, with concrete impacts.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and will be subject to peer review. Accepted contributions will be made available on the website and invited for an oral or poster presentation while the authors retain the copyright. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers with a limit of 6 pages + references
- Extended abstracts with a limit of 2 pages + references
Please use the ieee template available at http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php (for LaTeX) or http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php (Word) when preparing a submission.
The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version for inclusion in a special issue of Journal of Medical Internet Research.
List of Topics
- What impact can robotics have on health and older adult care?
- What is missing for more widespread adoption of robotics in this field?
- How to move beyond successful research projects to make a difference in peoples’ lives?
- How can technology support the practitioners in the healthcare domain?
- For which tasks are robots suitable? And for which should they be avoided?
- How can multidisciplinary teams design robots with end-users in the loop?
- What are the keys to success in long term deployment of robots?
- What are the main ethical considerations in robots assisting vulnerable end users?
- What sensing and reasoning capabilities are required for an intuitive interaction between robots and end-users?
- What methods can be harnessed to develop socially acceptable robot behaviors?
- What role can physical human-robot interaction play and how can challenges be addressed?
Venue
The workhsop will be held in conjunction with IROS 2020 in Las Vegas, NV, USA
Contact
Questions about submissions should be emailed to Leon Bodenhagen: lebo@mmmi.sdu.dk