Interactive robots are becoming more commonplace and complex, but their identity has not yet been a key point of investigation. Identity is an overarching concept that combines traits like personality or a backstory (among other aspects) that people readily attribute to a robot to individuate it as a unique entity. Given people's tendency to anthropomorphize social robots, "who is a robot?" should be a guiding question above and beyond "what is a robot?" Hence, we open up a discussion on artificial identity through this workshop in a multi-disciplinary manner; we welcome perspectives on challenges and opportunities from fields of ethics, design, and engineering. For instance, dynamic embodiment, e.g., an agent that dynamically moves across one's smartwatch, smart speaker, and laptop, is a technical and theoretical problem, with ethical ramifications. Another consideration is on whether multiple bodies may warrant multiple identities instead of an "all-in-one" identity. Who “lives” in which devices or bodies? Should their identity travel across different forms, and how can that be achieved in an ethically mindful manner? Authors are invited to submit their papers as Extended Abstracts with short bios (2 to 3 pages). Papers can be of exploratory or philosophical nature, as well as reflective writing on authors' past works that relate to identity.
Philosophy
Design
Embodiment
We accept short papers of 2-3 pages (excluding references). Papers can be of exploratory or philosophical nature, as well as reflective writing on authors’ past works that relate to identity. ACM template link on Overleaf here.
Accepted papers will be published at the workshop proceedings. All submissions should use the default "sigconf" style. Submissions should be single blind, i.e. do not need to be anonymized.
Submit your paper by the deadline (check Important Dates) in roboidentityhri@gmail.com.
All submissions will be reviewed by 2 reviewers.