We are happy to announce the NordiCHI 2026 1st Workshop on Robots as Welfare Technologies and Actors within Future Home- and Healthcare Services: Co-Designing an Integration Model through Story-Dialogue Method (ROBOWELL)!

This workshop explores whether, how, and under which conditions Welfare Robots (WRs), may be meaningfully integrated into future home- and healthcare services and practices.

Building on current debates on welfare technology, AI-driven robots, and post-growth Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), the workshop invites designers, roboticists, engineers, healthcare professionals, philosophers, sociologists, and other practitioners to critically examine and systematically engage in contributing to exploring design alternatives and co-design a future model for responsible integration of robots into future care services, using Story Dialogue Method.

When: Saturday, 3^rd of October, 14.00-17.30

Where: NordiCHI2026

Submission deadline (1-2 pages position paper, free format): 1^st of September

Read more about the workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/robowell-nordichi26/home.

Kind regards,

Diana Saplacan Lindblom, Sanna Kuoppamäki, Leon Bodenhagen, Jim Torresen