AI-Enabled Smart Technologies for Social Good: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation
Introduction
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners working on AI and smart objects (IoT sensors, wearables, drones/robotics, and edge–cloud platforms) that deliver measurable social good in rural and underserved communities. The technical focus spans two high-impact
domains: (i) precision and sustainable agriculture for small and medium farms, and (ii) telemedicine and remote patient monitoring to improve access to healthcare. A cross-cutting strand addresses community co-design and adoption (including youth and other community stakeholders) to ensure solutions are usable, trusted, secure, and sustainable. The workshop combines peer-reviewed technical presentations, short demos, and interactive breakouts where participants map end-to-end architectures (smart objects + AI + data + governance), compare deployment experiences, and identify common requirements for privacy, interoperability, cybersecurity, and evaluation in real-world settings.
Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026
Notification Deadline: 1 March 2026
Camera Ready Deadline: 15 March 2026
Topics
- Smart technology in agriculture: sensing, drones, robotics, irrigation optimization, yield/soil models, sustainable bioeconomy
- Smart technology in healthcare: remote monitoring, wearables, assistive devices, clinical decision support, telemedicine workflows
- Edge AI and resource-constrained inference; on-device learning; federated learning and privacy-preserving analytics
- IoT/edge–cloud data architectures, interoperability (standards, semantic models), and digital twins
- Cybersecurity for smart objects: secure firmware, authentication, secure telemetry, threat modeling for rural deployments
- Trustworthy AI: fairness, explainability, uncertainty, robustness, and human-in-the-loop validation
- Data quality, labeling strategies, drift detection, and monitoring in field deployments
- Community co-design and adoption: participatory design, digital literacy, and youth engagement as a pathway to sustainability
- Responsible innovation: ethics, consent, governance, and compliance considerations for sensitive health and farm data
- Responsible innovation: ethics, consent, governance, and compliance considerations for sensitive health and farm data
Organizers
Alan Mutka (RIT Croatia) – email: [email protected]
Domagoj Tolić (RIT Croatia)
Workshop publication
Accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publishing alongside the main conference proceedings as a sub-section/chapter. Paper formats should, therefore, correspond to the templates of the publisher of the main conference.
