Developing meaningful solutions for robotic caregiving requires roboticists and other stakeholders such as care recipients, caregivers, and occupational therapists to come together to design, develop, and evaluate use inspired technologies. 

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together roboticists and healthcare professionals to engage in a dialogue to define key problems and brainstorm meaningful solutions. In addition to defining key problems in this field, one key barrier to developing real-world solutions is the lack of realistic data. Part of this workshop will be dedicated to the collection of realistic human caregiver-care recipient physical interactions for some of the key caregiving tasks.

Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. 

Data Collection Dates: 

• 23 - 24 Sep 2023: Round 1 with Occupational Therapists from CUIMC

• 25 - 29 Sep 2023: Round 2 with Occupational Therapists from Ithaca College

• 30 Sep - 1 Oct 2023: Round 3 with Occupational Therapists from CUIMC

Organizers: 

• Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Cornell University

• Harold Soh, National University of Singapore

• Katherine Dimitropoulou, Columbia University

Schedule:

16 - 22 Sep 2023: Internal technical discussions and system development involving robot research teams from Cornell and NUS. 

23 Sep - 1 Oct 2023: The primary workshop involves multimodal data collection of common caregiving tasks (e.g. transferring, bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming) performed on sensorized manikins by healthcare experts. The wide variety of different data modalities include RGBD, MoCap, Gaze Tracking, Tactile Glove Sensing, Skin Force Sensing, and Speech.

2 - 6 Oct 2023: Post-workshop discussions. Data analysis and preparation of the dataset for dissemination.