As robots have become increasingly intertwined in the daily lives of humans, understanding of the interaction between robots and humans in various applications and environments has also improved. The ability to translate physiological signals into computational data has spurred the development of a variety of assistive and rehabilitation robots for many different purposes, though there are still many challenges to be addressed. Research into the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) has broken down barriers for the physically disabled, enhancing rehabilitation for paretic patients and allowing control of movements for paraplegic patients that would otherwise be impossible. In addition to this, BCI research has given insight into the mental workings of healthy subjects such as surgeons, improving the safety of high risk operations. This workshop aims to provide a forum to bring together researchers, engineers, and healthcare practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines to present the current state-of-the-art in human-robot interaction research for health applications. It will also address some of the major technical and non-technical challenges and unmet healthcare demands that can potentially reshape the future of rehabilitation robots.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

A non-exhaustive list of topics to be covered in the workshop is as follows:

• Human Robot Interaction
• Robotic rehabilitation
• Assistive robots
• Wearable robots and exoskeletons
• Wearable robot standardisation
• Brain-computer interface
• BCI applications for healthy subjects