Cyber-Physical Systems
for Accessibility and Ability Augmentation

The convergence of wearables, robotics, extended reality, and smart environments is expanding the design space for cyber-physical systems (CPS) that support and augment human abilities in everyday life. By sensing real-world contexts, modeling users’ needs, and delivering situated assistance, these systems can enhance capabilities such as perception, memory, learning, and mobility. They also offer new ways to address long-standing accessibility barriers in areas such as independent living, navigation, and social participation.

This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from HCI, AI, wearables, robotics, XR, smart environments, accessibility, and ability augmentation to examine shared strategies and challenges for designing accessibility- and ability-centered CPS. Through keynotes, panel discussions, interactive demos, and mixed-group design activities, participants will identify emerging design principles, surface shared challenges, and chart future directions for CPS that support and augment human abilities in everyday life. The organizing committee will synthesize key workshop outcomes into a public report and maintain a participant communication channel to support continued exchange beyond the event.