Co-located with Augmented Humans 2026
Human augmentation technologies have long extended human perception and action through wearable devices, displays, and actuators. The next stage increasingly focuses on higher levels of embodiment, including interoception, sensorimotor learning, self-perception, and the structure of agency. This shift requires bridging communities that operate with different assumptions, metrics, and experimental paradigms, such as HCI, XR, robotics, AI, and cognitive and motor neuroscience.
Through this workshop, we aim to outline a roadmap toward Embodied Reconfigurability, in which traditional constraints of the human body can be transcended by reconfiguring and redefining sensory and motor processes through the integration of neuroscience with AI, robotics, and XR technologies.
The workshop will take the form of a panel session bringing together experts in neuroscience, HCI, and Human–AI Interaction. The first part will explore perspectives from neuroscience and interactions involving peripheral nerves. The second part will focus on the relationship between humans and AI, discussing possible futures of embodiment and augmented bodies.
9:30–9:45 — Welcome, goals, and framing
9:45–10:40 — Panel Round 1: Neuro-Adaptive Embodied Interfaces
10:40–11:00 — Break
11:00–12:05 — Panel Round 2: Human–AI Cooperation, Cognition, Ethics
12:05–12:20 — Roadmapping synthesis (all speakers)
12:20–12:30 — Closing
Each panelist will give a 10-minute talk, followed by a group discussion and Q&A.
Panel 1: Neuro-Adaptive Embodied Interfaces
Yoichi Miyawaki
Maki Sugimoto
Pat Pataranutaporn
Masahiko Inami (moderator)
Panel 2: Human–AI Cooperation, Cognition, Ethics
Per Ola Kristensson
Koike Hideki
Anusha Withana
Frank Steinicke
Masahiko Inami (moderator)