January 22nd, 2018 
Daniela Lopez de Luise ******************************
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
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ICFNDS 2018
International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems
June 26 – 27, 2018
Amman, Jordan
http://www.icfnds.org
Published in ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS)
ACM ICPS is indexed in DBLP, Scopus and Thomson Reuters.
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January 20th, 2018 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Workshop on Elderly Care Robotics – Technology and Ethics (WELCARO)
ICRA 2018, 21-25 May, Brisbane, Australia
Workshop Web page: https://sites.google.com/site/
IMPORTANT DATES:
February 23rd: Submission deadline
April 5th: Notification of acceptance
April 22nd: Camera ready paper
May 21st: Workshop (full-day)
OVERVIEW:
The number of elderly people living at home is increasing, and this trend is
expected to continue in the coming years. In countries like Japan, the number
of elderly people is beginning to surpass the number of young people due to
the low birth rate and long life expectancy. Thus, there is a need for
technology, in term of software and hardware, that can support the elderly in
independent living. A part of this is to help their family as well as make
caregivers work effectively.
A number of mobile robot companions have been developed, providing advanced
sensing, reasoning and control. However, despite the available technology
seems promising, it poses several challenges when used in real scenarios that
range from how to handle complex and different environments to adequately
address possible ethical issues that can arise from its use. For instance,
technology can easily be seen as a threat to privacy, daily interpersonal
contact and citizens' control over their own lives. It can even give rise to
the elderly’s feeling being treated like an object rather than a human.
Thus, it is important to address how robots and systems are going to be
designed and used to avoid any negative impact and improve the elderly's
quality of life. In addition to robot control and mechanics, ambient sensing
and human-robot interaction are important topics in research on elderly care
technology. This workshop is intended to share knowledge about technological
opportunities and challenges regarding robots and systems for assistive care
as well as open a dialogue within the scientific society about the ethical
issues to be considered.
FORMAT:
Authors are required to submit a 2 pages extended abstract or 4 pages short
paper or 6
pages full paper as PDF in the standard ICRA conference format.
SUBMISSIONS:
Submissions will be judged based on relevance to the workshop topics,
technical quality,
and novelty. Authors of accepted papers are expected to give a lightning talk
(2-3 minutes)
and to present a poster at the workshop. A number of full papers will be
selected for longer 20 minutes oral presentation. The authors of the accepted
full paper will be invited to submit an extended version for tentative
inclusion in a journal special issue (pending).
Submission link: https://easychair.org/
SCOPE AND TOPICS:
The aim of the ICRA2018 workshop is to provide a forum to disseminate and
discuss recent and significant research within elderly care robotics related
to both technology and ethics. We invite interested authors to submit their
original and unpublished work to this workshop.
Topics of interest within the given application domain for the workshop
include (but are not limited to):
• Ambient assisted living
• Ambient sensor systems
• Emotion detection
• Human-robot interaction
• Medical state classification and forecasting
• Mental disorders state classification and forecasting
• Mobile sensing
• Multi-sensor fusion
• On-body sensor systems
• Privacy in human monitoring
• Remote sensing and monitoring
• Responsible robotics
• Robot companion sensing
• Robot companion control
• Robotics ethics
• Sensitive data collection and storage
• Sensor networks
• Smart home technologies
• Social robots
• Temporal data analysis
• Time series modeling and forecasting
ORGANIZERS:
Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway
Ryo Kurazume, Kyushu University, Japan
Edson Prestes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Prof. Dr. Edson Prestes
Head, ϕ-Robotics Research Group
Informatics Institute
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil
Chair, IEEE SA P7007 Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems Working Group
Vice-Chair, IEEE RAS Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Working Group
Founding Chair, IEEE South Brazil RAS Chapter
IEEE Senior Member
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
home page: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/
skype: edson_prestes
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