Many countries face pressure on their health care systems. To alleviate this pressure, ‘self care’ is often stimulated with the use of new, assistive technologies.

Social robotics is a research area in which psychology, robot technology and artificial intelligence is combined, aiming for robots that are able to function in cooperation with humans in social settings. One of these social settings is self care assistance. To foster progress in this area of ‘social robotics for self care’, coordinated efforts between research institutes, companies and end users are needed.

This workshop during The European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2010 (ECCE 2010) focuses on bringing these stakeholders together and creating a shared research agenda and will take place on 24 August 2010 in Delft, The Netherlands.

Link to PDF doc of workshop