Robots4NDD 2022: Workshop on Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Neurodevelopmental Difficulties (NDDs) Rehab Week 2022 Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 25, 2022 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robots4ndd2022 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 30, 2022 |
Submission deadline | April 4, 2022 |
Notification of Acceptance | April 10, 2022 |
Camera ready | May 10, 2022 |
Workshop on Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Neurodevelopmental Difficulties (NDDs) - Robots4NDD 2022
Aim and Scope
Neurodevelopmental deficits (NDD) are characterized by specific limitations on language, attention, or motor control abilities and impairment of social skills (e.g., autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, specific learning disorder). Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) result in emotional, physical, social, academic, and economic consequences for individuals, and in turn families, and society. Upon diagnosis, families report significant delays in treatment initiation and unsatisfactory levels of treatment monitoring and there is a need to establish effective easy-to-access strategies for assessing, treating, and monitoring NDD.
Rapid progress in the area of robotics offers excellent chances for innovations for children with NDDs thanks to robots allowing the execution of repetitive tasks which can be tailored according to the needs of the individuals. Robots thus offer the opportunity to deliver automated interventions, enable therapy to be delivered over a distance, enable inclusive and collaborative environments to promote group activity and social inclusion, and personalize treatment procedures.
It is important to develop adaptive interventions tailored to the individual to enhance the functional recovery of sensorimotor, social, or cognitive functions in children with NDDs and give children and youth with various disabilities the opportunity to participate more actively and to contribute with their own skills to the activities at home, school, and therapy. Previous studies with robots showed improvement in learning performance, engagement, communication, and social interaction. However, if the technology is not well designed, it can generate interaction barriers while using it autonomously or can cause discomfort, therefore collaboration of multiple stakeholders is crucial.
This workshop aims to bring experts from multi-disciplinary backgrounds together to share ideas and discuss the design of such robotic solutions for the targeted focus group.
The main aim of this workshop will be to provide a venue for young researchers to share their recent advances as well as to listen and interact with senior researchers with different backgrounds working in NDDs. This workshop will focus on metrics, models, techniques, algorithms that enable robots to be effective tools in NDD care, in clinical contexts, as well as outside the hospital.
Submission Guidelines
Abstract submission deadline: March 15th, March 20th 2022
Paper/video submission deadline: March 25th, March 30th, 2022
Acceptance notification: April 10th, 2022
Camera-ready submission: May 10th, 2020
Workshop day: July 25th, 2022
The following submission categories are welcome:
- Paper submission
All submissions should be according to the specifications of the ICORR 2022: http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php
One to Two-page submissions will be selected for an oral presentation to encourage discussion.
Contributions should be submitted via the EasyChair website
Submissions are due on March 25th, March 30th 2022.
All the contributions (articles, media, and related) will be online accessible through the website of the workshop.
- Video submission
Videos are accepted as contributions focused on showing field activities, interventions and achievements involving the use of robots for NDDs.
Video contributions according to the following specifications should be submitted by directly contacting the chairs of the workshop.
- Duration: between 3 and 10 minutes.
- Format (only one of the following should be used): mpeg, mp4, mpg
- Minimum video quality: 720p
- Minimum frame rate (fps): 24
- Codecs: Do not use special codecs in order to provide as much portability across platforms as possible.
- Audio is optional, but lack of audio should have minimal impact on the comprehension of the video.
- Structure: The video must include at the beginning a video cover with the title, authors and affiliation and the credits at the end.
Submissions are due on March 25th, March 30th 2022.
List of Topics
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Robot-assisted therapy and training;
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Personalized interactions and adaptive interventions with robots;
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Participatory design approaches in design;
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Children's and families’ involvement in the design;
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Social interaction and inclusion through robot-mediated activities;
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Socio-cognitive skills training;
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Attention and engagement measures in NDDs;
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Affective interaction and emotional understanding;
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Imitation, perspective-taking, joint attention, and empathy;
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Fine motor skills;
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Robots in special education;
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Assistive robots at home;
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Specific field applications based on ABA or ESDM approaches.
Committees
Organizing committee
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Arzu Guneysu Ozgur - Division of Robotics Perception and Learning, Department of EECS, KTH, Digital Futures Fellow, Sweden
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Salvatore Maria Anzalone - Laboratoire de Cognition Humaine et Artificielle, Université Paris 8
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Thomas Gargot - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tours
Invited Speakers
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Carlos Cifuentes - Robotics, School of Engineering, Science and Technology, Universidad del Rosario
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Maura Casadio - Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, Neuro lab, University of Genoa
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Emanuele Menegatti - Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua
Venue
The conference workshop will be held in conjunction with RehabWeek 2022, July 25th, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
https://www.rehabweek.org/scientific-information/rehabweek-workshops/
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to arzuo@kth.se