Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging Human-AI Interactions to Support Healthcare in the Global South
November 9th, 2024
November 9th, 2024
Advances in AI and emerging technologies offer opportunities to deliver societal benefits in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that would contribute to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. AI systems in healthcare may contribute to develop assistive technologies, bridging the digital divide, improving the quality of life through effective health systems, and developing more personalised and precise medicine. Given the imbalanced research on emerging healthcare technologies across Global North and Global South, there is a strong imperative to develop a larger corpus of understanding of human-centred AI design practices in healthcare and the particularities of the region. In this workshop, we aim to engage in a thorough discussion with researchers and practitioners about barriers of development, adoption, interaction and envisioned benefits of developing collaborative emerging technologies to support the healthcare context in the Latin-American and Caribbean region.
The aim is to bring together a mix of researchers and practitioners from disciplines such as interaction design, human factors, computer science, art, digital health, science and technology studies, CSCW, and HCI to foster a discussion about ongoing work on human-AI collaboration in healthcare, what sociotechnical challenges emerged from existing designs and studies in the region, and explore how socio-economic issues might impact emerging technologies development and adoption. We will invite contributions, including, but not limited to the following topics:
Emerging technologies in healthcare and barriers of development, adoption, and interaction.
Lessons and challenges arising from the design and adoption of AI and data driven healthcare practices in LMICs.
Human-AI collaboration practices in healthcare
Empirical research on the study of AI for healthcare in relation to contexts such robot interaction, maternal health, precision medicine and precision oncology, dental health, and waiting lists for healthcare attention
Methods and approaches for studying the use of Human-centred AI for healthcare
Ethical challenges and regulations of integrating AI in healthcare
Opportunities to learn from good practices in public health useful to integrate on AI adoption in healthcare
Important Dates
First round submission deadline: August 20, 2024
First round decision notification: August 27, 2024
Second round submission deadline: September 20, 2024
Second round decision notification: September 24, 2024
After September 24th, papers will be accepted on a rolling basis until the workshop reaches capacity.
Submissions will receive notification of acceptance two days after submission.
Submission Details
Submit paper to ai.health.cscw@gmail.com
Suggested Formatting
Page limit: 2-6 pages (including references).
Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates, single column.
(All times are in Costa Rica, local time)
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee and preparation
9:30 - 10:00 Introduction and Welcome
10:00 - 10:45 Lightning talks
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Lightning talks
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
Afternoon Session
14:00 - 15:15 Interactive co-design session
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:45 Discussion - Groups
16:45 - 17:00 Closing
Carolina Fuentes
is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University. Her research focused on human-computer interaction, human-centred AI and the socio-technical challenges of emerging technologies.
She is part of the Interdisciplinary Precision Oncology Hub at Cardiff University and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS).
Iyubanit Rodriguez
is an Associate Professor at the University of Costa Rica in the Business Informatics program. Her research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX), Healthcare and Gender in STEM programs; especially in technologies that can improve people's quality of life.
Gabriela Cajamarca
is an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Yachay Tech in Ecuador, her research is at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), with special interest in the fields of Health and Wellness.She is part of the Data Science and Analytics research group, and is also a mentor for IEEE Women in Engineering at Yachay Tech University.
Laura Cabrera Quiros
is an Associate Professor at the Costa Rican Institute of Technology or TEC (Tecnológico de Costa Rica), working in the Electronics Engineering department. Her research focuses on the use of machine learning and non-invasive technologies (e.g. wearable and embedded devices, cameras, and other sensors) for social signal processing and affective computing applications. She has been area chair or part of the organization of conferences such as ACM ICMI and ACM Multimedia.
Andrés Lucero
is Associate Professor of interaction design at Aalto University in Finland. His research interests include HCI, design, and play. He has co-organised workshops at CSCW and DIS, as well as co-edited follow-up special issues from those workshops.
Valeria Herskovic
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research is the areas of HCI and health informatics, especially focused on older people and people with low digital skills in Chile. She also coorganizes the local women in computing conference, Chilewic.
Kenton O'Hara
is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Bristol. His research adopts a sociotechnical perspective on Human-AI interaction in the context of collaborative work practices, with a particular interest in Healthcare. He has co-organised several successful workshops at CHI and served as Workshops Chair at CSCW and OzCHI conferences.