AI for Future-Proof Palliative Care:A Relational Approach

This three-hour workshop invites the IH community to explore how AI could support and shape ecologies of future palliative care. To envision more holistic and sustainable AI-supported palliative care, we frame transitions through three layers of care (individual, community, and professional services) and adopt a relational approach inspired by More-than-Human design practices. This approach foregrounds how AI is entangled with diverse users across these layers. Using speculative and participatory design methods, participants will envision AI-supported care futures and identify emerging research directions at the intersection of palliative care, HCI, and AI. Building on prior ACM workshops combining perspectives on AI, clinical practice, and care in sensitive life transitions, this workshop offers a space to reflect on key challenges and opportunities, and to co-develop design principles and roadmap toward relational, responsible, and sustainable futures of AI in palliative care.