ICSR 2024

Personalized Social Robots to Support Successful Aging

(PSR4SA - 2024)

Workshop

16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI

October 23, 2024 – Odense, Denmark

Overview

This workshop aims to draw the attention of researchers to the design and utilization of personalized social robots for supporting older adults in various facets of life. It aims to discuss key challenges in the design and application of personal robots for older adults and potential solutions to improve the support provided by these robots for successful aging. The workshop is intended to include various keynote speakers, talks contributed by the workshop participants, and a panel discussion with the invited panelists. The participants will be encouraged to participate and discuss the challenges in designing and deploying personalized robots for older adults.

Description and Objectives

As the world's population ages, the global shortage of caregivers is increasing significantly. Integrating social robots into older adults' lives can augment support and ease care demands for caregivers. This directly and indirectly impacts the quality of care for older adults, potentially promoting their independence, enhancing their abilities, lowering healthcare costs, and improving overall quality of life through consultations and monitoring. However, developing robots that can be personalized for older adults requires consideration of various factors related to the primary user, care partners, the robot itself, the tasks it will perform, and the environment where the robot will be deployed. Each of these factors has sub-factors that impact the robot's perception, use, and acceptance.
Robots need to be customized to adapt to the evolving capabilities and needs of different users. Caregivers' preferences and workflows should be integrated into the robots' applications, while considering communication patterns that optimize their work. Additionally, robot-related factors such as appearance, navigation, and interaction should be personalized to suit the preferences and needs of users. Task-related considerations include task types, task constraints, task criticality, and aspects specific to the primary user. Environment-related considerations include factors in the physical environment such as personal furniture, flooring, and setup that the robot should be aware of as it interacts with the primary user. For instance, a robot designed to assist with medication management must account for the user's specific challenges, the caregiver's instructions, the nature of the medication, delivery methods, timing, and preferred reminder patterns. These challenges are inherent in various tasks, emphasizing the importance of comprehensive design for personalized robots supporting older adults.
The workshop will explore application domains such as physical, social, cognitive, dyadic, and multi-agent interactions between humans and robots. We are considering various Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios that pose unique challenges and can inspire the development of personalized social robots that can be customized to meet the needs of older adults. The challenges include safety, explainability, trustworthiness, acceptance, usability, privacy, and ethical considerations in designing personalized social robots. We will also address evaluation procedures and performance measures to assess personalized social robots and highlight the importance of real-world testing over extended periods to ensure acceptance and assimilation.
This workshop aims to bridge the gap between the design and deployment of personalized social robots to support successful aging. It includes invited talks by experts in HRI, aging, and human factors, as well as contributed talks by young researchers about their early-stage work. A panel discussion will be held, where invited panelists and participants will discuss current challenges and future directions related to designing personalized social robots for successful aging in HRI, with a focus on shaping an agenda for future research.

List of Topics

This workshop is interested in covering and addressing topics within the following scope (but not limited to):

Personalized robot design for aging:

• Adaptive learning for robots supporting older adults

• Understanding autonomy of intelligent systems

• Participatory design process in intelligent robotic systems for older adults

• Development of user-friendly instructional training, materials and/or guides for robots

• Preserving privacy through co-active design with older adults

• Psycho-social aspects that influence the design and/or use of robots for older adults

• Mixed methods approaches for designing and evaluating personalized social robots for older adults

• Assimilation of personalized social robots

• Aging in place designs for personalized social robots

• Explainable AI for robots supporting older adults

• Transparency models applicable for older adult users

• Designing robots to support aging with disabilities

• Interaction design for personalized social robots

Applications of personalized social robots for successful aging:

• Healthcare robots for older adults

• Robots in continued care retirement communities

• Rehabilitation robots for older adults

• Domestic and socially assistive robots for older adults

• Safety monitoring and control for robots supporting older adults

• Integrating wearables and haptic devices into robot designs for older adults

• Ethical guidelines for designing personalized robots for older adults

• Exoskeleton models to support older adults

• Human factors considerations for personalized robots

• Robot support for professional caregivers and family carepartners

• Robot-enhanced social and cognitive engagement for older adults

• Usability considerations for robots supporting older adults

• Designing for trustworthy robots supporting older adults

• Robots-aided prescription-based games for older adults

• Robots to support older adults with cognitive challenges

• Designing robots to support perceptual changes in older adults

• Robot-facilitated physical, cognitive, and social engagement for older adults

• Secure interaction for social robots supporting older adults

Updates

Call for papers announced.
Dr. Ittay Mannheim confirmed as invited keynote speaker with the talk titled: ”A participatory approach for personalizing data and privacy management of care robots”.
Prof Suna Bensch confirmed as invited keynote speaker with the talk titled: ”Understandable Robots – for Young and Old”.
Dr. Renato F. L. Azevedo confirmed as invited keynote speaker with the talk titled: ”User-centered visualizations for personalized robots supporting older adults”.
Prof Praminda Caleb-Solly confirmed as invited keynote speaker with the talk titled: "Sensing for Change – The opportunities and challenges for Embodied AI to realise safe and adaptive assistive robots".

Contact Information

For questions and information regarding the workshop: mayakrak@post.bgu.ac.il
The 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI (ICSR) official website: https://icsr2024.dk/

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