WorldCist'27 - 15th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies - RAI4HW 2027 - 2nd Workshop on Social Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Human Wellbeing

Scope

Recent advances in social robotics, generative artificial intelligence, affective computing, and multimodal interaction are expanding the ways in which technology can support human wellbeing across the lifespan. Beyond clinical contexts, socially intelligent systems are increasingly being designed for homes, schools, hospitals, workplaces, cultural spaces, and communities, where they can foster emotional balance, social connectedness, learning, active ageing, healthy lifestyles, and participation.

Building on the first edition, RAI4HW 2027 will focus on the design, development, evaluation, and responsible deployment of social robots and AI-based systems that contribute to psychological, emotional, social, cognitive, and physical wellbeing. Particular attention on will be given to generative social agents, playful and game-based interventions, inclusive interaction, ethical AI, and co-creation with diverse and potentially vulnerable populations, including children, older adults, people with disabilities, pa ents, and communities at risk of exclusion.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers, developers, designers, educators, healthcare professionals, and practitioners working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer interaction, psychology, education, health, and social sciences. It will provide a forum to share research results, discuss methodological and ethical challenges, present innovative applications, and identify future research directions for socially intelligent technologies that help people and communities flourish.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Socially assistive robotics for emotional, social, and physical wellbeing

• Generative AI agents and conversational systems for human support

• Human-robot interaction for inclusion, participation, and community engagement

• AI-driven stress detection, resilience, and mental-health support

• Companion robots for loneliness reduction and positive ageing

• Social robots and AI for children, hospital classrooms, and vulnerable populations

• Playful, game-based, and gamified interventions with social robots and AI

• Mul modal interaction, affective computing, and adaptive wellbeing systems

• AI for personalized wellbeing recommendations and lifestyle coaching

• Robo cs and AI in education, culture, leisure, and lifelong learning

• Intelligent wearables, ambient sensing, and smart environments for wellbeing

• Co-design and participatory approaches to wellbeing-oriented technologies

• Explainable, trustworthy, ethical, and responsible AI in socially interactive systems

• Gender-sensitive, culturally responsive, and intersectional approaches to wellbeing technology

• Evaluation frameworks and longitudinal studies of AI and robotics for wellbeing

Organizing Committee

· Carina S. González-González, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· Jezabel Molina-Gil, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· Silvana V. Aciar, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· Raquel Lacuesta Gilaberte, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· Jesús Gallardo Casero, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· José María Buades Rubio, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· Francisco Jose Perales López, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· Francisco L. Gutiérrez-Vela, Universidad de Granada, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· Patricia Paderewski, Universidad de Granada, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

· César Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Program Committee

· Alicia García-Holgado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

· Alicia Mon, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Argen na

· Carina S. González-González, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain

· César Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia

· Eva Cerezo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

· Francisco J. García-Peñalvo, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

· Francisco L. Gu érrez-Vela, Universidad de Granada, Spain

· Francisco Perales, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain

· Jaime Muñoz Arteaga, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico