PETRA 2018 is hosting seven regular workshops, and three industrial workshops. Regular workshops are targeted more towards academic research and cover various topics, and they will be on the same days as other conference sessions (June 27-29, 2018). On the other hand, industrial workshops are targeted towards practitioners and professionals working in the field of assistive technology and human-robot collaboration. The industrial workshops will be on June 26, 2018.

Regular Workshops:

1. Accessibility and the Smart City: Technological Challenges and Open Accessibility Issues
2. DAEM2: The 2nd International Workshop on Designing Assistive Environments for Manufacturing
3. NOTION: Human Behaviour Monitoring, Interpretation and Understanding
4. PEARL: Patient data acquisition, analysis, profiling and personalized care plan
5. RobAssist: Robotic Assistive Systems for People with Disabilities
6. Social Robots: A Workshop on the Past, the Present and the Future of Digital Companions
7. Inclusive Smart Cities: Enhancing Citizens’ Life and Activities

Submission Deadline	:	March 2, 2018
Submission Length	:	3-8 pages (incl. refs)
Notification Date	:	March 19, 2018
Camera-Ready	:	March 30, 2018
Presentation	:	Oral Presentation

Industrial Workshops:

1. Assistive Technologies For Seniors
2. Instructive Assistance Systems For Manual Assembly Tasks
3. Human-robot Collaboration : Training Issues, Challenges And Methods

Submission Deadline	:	March 2, 2018 (Submissions are optional)
Submission Length	:	1-4 pages (incl. refs)
Notification Date	:	March 19, 2018
Camera-Ready	:	March 30, 2018
Presentation	:	Poster Presentation