Caring for individuals living with dementia can be a challenging and emotionally taxing experience, particularly for caregivers who are often spouses or partners. Many caregivers lack prior experience in providing care and would greatly benefit from training and support. With advancements in AI techniques, human-centered AI interaction approaches have shown promise in enhancing dementia care. However, realizing the potential of AI in dementia care necessitates addressing various complicated challenges, including ethical considerations, privacy concerns, user acceptance, and the necessity for human-centered design approaches.

This workshop aims to serve as a platform for researchers from the HCI community to explore and discuss these challenges, opportunities, and best practices in leveraging AI to enhance dementia care through human-centered approaches. The workshop will revolve around four key themes:

1. Deployment: What strategies can be employed to effectively apply human-AI interaction techniques to improve dementia care?

2. Challenges: What potential obstacles exist in integrating these technologies into supportive care environments?

3. Ethics: What ethical considerations and dilemmas may arise from human-AI interactions in dementia care?

4. Learning: What valuable lessons can the HCI community glean from these explorations?

The insights gathered from these discussions will guide us in crafting a comprehensive report that outlines future action points and recommendations for advancing this crucial area of research.

As the 1st edition, this workshop focuses on the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence (AI) to address the unique challenges associated with dementia care. Dementia presents multifaceted cognitive and emotional hurdles, and the workshop aims to explore how AI technologies can improve the quality of life for individuals with dementia while also supporting their caregivers. By bringing together researchers, practitioners, caregivers, and stakeholders, the workshop seeks to foster collaboration and innovation in the design, development, and implementation of human-centered AI solutions for dementia care.

Submission Guidelines

HAID accepts paper submissions of length of 2-4 pages (without references) including work-in-progress or prospective work. Papers available online without peer review (e.g., already available on ArXiv but not already accepted or published in another venue) can be submitted.

All accepted papers will be presented as oral presentations during the workshop and will be archived on the workshop website.

Submissions ***do not*** need to be anonymized. All author information should be put on the manuscript.

Authors should use the templates provided by the NordiCHI. The templates for US Letter format paper should be used. Please download the templates below. 

• Paper Templates: LaTex, Word

List of Topics

• Human-AI interactions for dementia care

• Human-centered design for AI solutions in dementia care

• Intelligent assistive technology applications for dementia care

• Real-world applications and case studies of AI in dementia care

• The role of caregivers and end-users in human-centered AI powered dementia care solutions

• Ethics in human-AI interactions for dementia care

• Societal impact and implications of human-centered AI in dementia care

• Interactive AI interfaces for dementia care

• Collaborative works for human-AI interaction in dementia care

• Interpretable and explainable AI for dementia care decision-making support

• Multimodal interaction design for human-centered AI systems in dementia care

Committees

Organizing committee

• Dr. Yong Ma (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Dr. Yuchong Zhang (KTH, Sweden)
• Dr. Di Fu (University of Surrey, UK)
• Mahya Jahanshah (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Dr. Andrii Matviienko (KTH, Sweden)
• Dr. Miroslav Bachinski (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Prof. Morten Fjeld (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Prof. Danica Kragic (KTH, Sweden)

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Arvid Rongve (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Dr. Pin Sym Foong (NUS, Singapore)

Venue

• Website: https://sites.google.com/view/haidworkshops/home
• Date: October 13th, 2024 (Half-day workshop)
• Location: Hybrid (Uppsala, Sweden), as part of ACM NordiCHI 2024

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Yong Ma (yong.ma@uib.no)