Recent advances in assistive technologies provide technical aids for promoting independent living and improving quality of life not only for disabled and elderly but also for healthy people who are working under harsh environments. To support the human motions in a safe and acceptable manner, the assistive device must clearly understand the human's intention and continuously adapt its behavior. Building functional models of human's motion and sensation are very helpful to evaluate the subjective efforts associated with intuitive, safe, and easy-to-use design. This workshop aims at providing a state of the art overview on the recent researches and intends to bring together experts from multidisciplinary fields of biomechanics, human functional models of motion and sensation, devices and robots to enhance human performances, rehabilitation robotics, power-assisting devices, and human-robot interaction. Speakers who are actively working in this area will stimulate an attractive discussion on the challenging problems with special attention to aspects related to human modeling and control for assistive technologies.

• Assistive robotics for elderly and disabled people
• Computational human modeling
• Devices and robots to enhance human performances
• Exoskeleton robots and power-assisting devices
• Haptic and tactile technologies
• Human augmentation
• Human motion analysis
• Rehabilitation robotics