The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human Robot Interaction

March 2, 2015
HRI

Portland
United States

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As robotics technology forays into our daily lives, research, industry, and government professionals in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) in must grapple with significant ethical, legal, and normative questions. Many leaders in the field have suggested that “the time is now” to start drafting ethical and policy guidelines for our community to guide us forward into this new era of robots in human social environments. However, thus far, discussions have been skewed toward the technology side or policy side, with few opportunities for cross-disciplinary conversation, creating problems for the community. Policy researchers can be concerned about robot capabilities that are scientifically unlikely to ever come to fruition (like the singularity), and technologists can be vehemently opposed to ethics and policy encroaching on their professional space, concerned it will impede their work.

This workshop aims to build a cross-disciplinary bridge that will ensure mutual education and grounding. It has three main goals: 1) Cultivate a multidisciplinary network of scholars who might not otherwise have the opportunity to meet and collaborate, 2) Serve as a forum for guided discussion of relevant topics that have emerged as pressing ethical and policy issues in the HRI field, 3) Create a working consensus document for the professional community that will be shared broadly.

The workshop will explore three challenge themes: Healthcare (e.g., how do we ethically design and deploy robots that work with people with disabilities and older adults?), Morphology (e.g., what are the ethics inherent in “social manipulation” through design?), and Autonomy (e.g., what are the ethical and legal ramifications of control handoff?). 

Invited Speakers

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A multi-disciplinary group of scholars will serve as panelists on the three challenge themes, including:

  - Meg Leta Ambrose, Communication, Culture, & Technology, Georgetown University

  - Peter Asaro, Media Studies, The New School

  - Michael Goodrich, Computer Science, Brigham Young University

  - David Luxton, Naval Health Research Center

  - Jason Millar, Philosophy, Queen’s University at Kingston

  - Ayse Saygin, Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

  - Jean Scholtz, Visual Analytics, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  - Bill Smart, Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University

  - John Sullins, Philosophy, Sonoma State University

  - Aimee van Wynsberghe, Philosophy, University of Twente

  - Eric Valor, Team Gleason Initiative and SciOpen Research Group

 Travel Scholarships for Students

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Funding may be available to support student travel and workshop registration. Please check the website in mid-January for more details.

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Laurel Riek, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Woodrow Hartzog, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University

Don Howard, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

Ajung Moon, Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia

Ryan Calo, School of Law, University of Washington


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