HRI4W: HRI4Wellbeing at ROMAN24 Pasadena, California, USA August 26-30, 2024 |
| Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/hri4wellbeing2024/home |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hri4w1 |
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HRI4Wellbeing: The 3rd Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Wellbeing: Challenges and Opportunities of Using LLMs
Co-located with RO-MAN24
Hybrid format, join our workshop:
- In-person: Pasadena, California, USA
- Remotely: TBD
August 26, 2024
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Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/hri4wellbeing2024/home
Call for Papers
The main topic of our workshop will be the challenges and opportunities of using Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic applications for well-being. This workshop is strongly aligned with the RO-MAN 2024 theme of “Embracing Human-Centered HRI”, which seeks to design human-robot interactions “towards building a promising and excellent human quality of life, all for our wellness”.
Recently, the use of LLMs has spread rapidly in our society, from information retrieval to text classification, as well as robotic applications. Given these rapid advancements, recent studies have attempted to identify challenges and opportunities for using LLMs in various contexts, such as in healthcare and medicine, among others. These works have highlighted that the use of LLMs in healthcare and well-being pose risks in terms of data privacy, questionable credibility and accuracy of information, data bias, interpretability of LLMs, role of LLMs, deployment of LLMs. However, there is a lack of analysis and understanding of the challenges and opportunities when using LLMs for robotic applications in well being.
Exploring the challenges and opportunities of using LLMs in robots for well-being is extremely important to gain insights into how these models affect the users’ perception of robots in these applications. The conversations to be held in this workshop can serve as the first stepping stone to guide the HRI community in designing robotic applications for well-being that leverage the use of LLMs in a responsible and ethical manner.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the fields of Social Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Affective Computing, Health, Well-being, Design, Adaptive Machine Learning, Ethics, Social Sciences, Psychology, Law, etc. to discuss topics related to the use of LLMs in robots for well-being, the implications of LLMs integration into a physical robot, and the impact on users’ perception.
We invite authors to submit their contributions as case study papers (2-4 pages long) or extended abstracts (1 page long), using the format provided by RO-MAN. All papers are to be submitted via the submission system of EasyChair (link can be found on our website).
Important dates
- Call for papers deadline: 15 June 2024
- Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2024
- Camera-ready deadline: 22 July 2024
- Workshop day: 26 August 2024
Invited speakers
- Prof. Emily S. Cross, ETH Zurich
- Prof. Jesse Thomason, University of Southern California
- Prof. Ryan Calo, University of Washington
List of Topics
- Affective robotics for well-being
- Socially assistive robots for well-being
- Robotics assistant/companion/coach for well-being
- Robotic design for well-being
- User studies for well-being in the real world
- Adaptation and personalization for well-being applications
- Machine learning for well-being
- Concept papers on the role of robots for well-being
- Methods to measure well-being
- Ethics, Privacy, and Data Security Considerations
- Linguistic Communication and Dialogue
- LLMs for well-being robotics
Organising committee
- Micol Spitale, Politecnico di Milano & University of Cambridge
- Alyssa Kubota, San Francisco State University
- Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, University of Michigan
- Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to hri4wellbeing@gmail.com or ms2871@cam.ac.uk