Social Robots in Therapy

Focusing on Autonomy and Ethical Challenges

Schedule:

09:00 - 09:10 Introduction to the Workshop

09:10 - 09:50 Invited Speaker: Adriana Tapus

09:50 - 10:30 Workshop Session 1: participants’ contributions:

      • Emotional State Recognition for Personalized Robot Behavior Adaptation : Ethical Implications (Jainendra Shukla, Joan Oliver Poyatos and Domenec Puig)
      • Towards a Computational Model of Dignity to Guide Autonomous Assistive Robots (Jason Wilson and Linda Tickle-Degnen)

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:30 Invited Speaker: Jamy Li

11:30 - 12:20 Workshop Session 2: participants’ contributions:

      • Towards a Full Spectrum Diagnosis of Autistic Behaviours using Human Robot Interactions (Madeleine Bartlett, Tony Belpaeme and Serge Thill)
      • Towards an embodied simulator of autistic child behaviors: an improved method for selecting simulated behaviors (Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo and Manuela Veloso)
      • Long-term Robot-Mediated Interventions for Children with Autism: A Case Study (David Becerra)

12:20 - 13:00 Invited Speaker: Jenay Beer

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:40 Invited Speaker: Maartje de Graaf

14:40 - 15:30 Workshop Session 3: participants’ contributions :

      • Robotic Therapies: Notes on Governance (Eduard Fosch Villaronga and Jordi Albo-Canals)
      • Social Robots as Alternative Non-Pharmacological Techniques for procedures in children (Gloria Beraldo, et a.)
      • User Expectations of Privacy in Robot Assisted Therapy (Zachary Henkel, Kenna Baugus, Cindy Bethel and David May)

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 - 16:50 Workshop Session 4: participants’ contributions:

      • Toward a taxonomy of social robots for aging-in-place (Lucile Dupuy and Wendy Rogers)
      • Socially Assistive Robot in Upper-Limb Rehabilitation: Ethical and Philosophical Considerations following a Feasibility Study (Ronit Feingold-Polak and Shelly Levy-Tzedek)
      • A Social Robot to Assist in a Therapy for the Care of People with Dementia (Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval and Jesus Favela)
      • Defining Social Robot Roles in Rehabilitation Based on Observed Patient-Therapist Interactions in Stroke Therapy (Michelle Jillian Johnson, Mayumi Mohan and Rochelle Mendonca)

16:50 - 17:15 Closing Remarks and Take Away Message/Goodbye