[EASST-Eurograd] [CFP] Robots for Care: Exploring Downstream Socio-Ethical Effects & Upstream Interventions (HRI 2026 workshop)
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Call for papers: Robots for Care: Exploring Downstream Socio-Ethical Effects & Upstream Interventions, Workshop @ HRI 2026
🗓️ Submission deadline: February 9, 2026 (AoE)
🗓️ Workshop date: March 16, 2026, Morning GMT
🙌 Workshop format: Hybrid and interactive
🔗 Workshop website: https://healthrobotsworkshop.github.io
Dear colleagues,
We are excited to invite contributions to our workshop "Robots for Care: Exploring Downstream Socio-Ethical Effects and Upstream Interventions" held in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction (HRI 2026).
The context: Robots hold potential to expand accessibility to disabled communities, such as by providing physical or cognitive assistance, and enabling new ways of participating in social activities. They also can support healthcare workers with ancillary tasks and care delivery, to support them working at the top of their license. However, the real-world deployment of robots across these contexts can create social, ethical, and organizational challenges (e.g., downstream effects). They may undermine the agency of disabled people, disrupt care delivery, shift roles, and displace labor.
Our aim: Bring together multidisciplinary stakeholders to examine these downstream effects and explore how they might be mitigated through upstream interventions of design, research, and policy.
How to contribute: We welcome short contributions discussing topics relevant to the workshop. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Potential Attendees: We encourage academics, non-academics, and people with/without affiliations to participate in the workshop. Submitting a paper is not mandatory to attend. The workshop is designed to be interactive and participatory, and we are interested in welcoming people from many backgrounds. The workshop will be hybrid to support accessibility.
We appreciate your help in sharing this workshop with relevant parties.
Organizers:
Sandhya Jayaraman, UC San Diego
Deep Masanam, UC San Diego
Pratyusha Ghosh, UC San Diego
Alyssa Kubota, San Francisco State University
Laurel Riek, UC San Diego
✉️ Contact: healthrobo...@gmail.com
🗓️ Submission deadline: February 9, 2026 (AoE)
🗓️ Workshop date: March 16, 2026, Morning GMT
🙌 Workshop format: Hybrid and interactive
🔗 Workshop website: https://healthrobotsworkshop.github.io
Dear colleagues,
We are excited to invite contributions to our workshop "Robots for Care: Exploring Downstream Socio-Ethical Effects and Upstream Interventions" held in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction (HRI 2026).
The context: Robots hold potential to expand accessibility to disabled communities, such as by providing physical or cognitive assistance, and enabling new ways of participating in social activities. They also can support healthcare workers with ancillary tasks and care delivery, to support them working at the top of their license. However, the real-world deployment of robots across these contexts can create social, ethical, and organizational challenges (e.g., downstream effects). They may undermine the agency of disabled people, disrupt care delivery, shift roles, and displace labor.
Our aim: Bring together multidisciplinary stakeholders to examine these downstream effects and explore how they might be mitigated through upstream interventions of design, research, and policy.
How to contribute: We welcome short contributions discussing topics relevant to the workshop. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Ethical, legal, and social implications of robots in clinical or assistive contexts
- Critical reflections on mis/alignments between design goals and impacts of robots on disabled communities
- Upstream interventions at the meso or macro level (e.g., community programs, participatory research, policies)
- Community-based research practices
- Experience reports or deployment insights from contexts including:
- Socially assistive robots
- Cognitively assistive robots
- Physically assistive robots
- Hospital deployed robots (e.g., delivery, sanitation, surgery)
- Rehabilitation robotics
- We particularly encourage submissions that surface lived experiences, or cross-disciplinary insights that may be underrepresented in traditional academic venues.
Potential Attendees: We encourage academics, non-academics, and people with/without affiliations to participate in the workshop. Submitting a paper is not mandatory to attend. The workshop is designed to be interactive and participatory, and we are interested in welcoming people from many backgrounds. The workshop will be hybrid to support accessibility.
We appreciate your help in sharing this workshop with relevant parties.
Organizers:
Sandhya Jayaraman, UC San Diego
Deep Masanam, UC San Diego
Pratyusha Ghosh, UC San Diego
Alyssa Kubota, San Francisco State University
Laurel Riek, UC San Diego
✉️ Contact: healthrobo...@gmail.com
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