Programme
Schedule
Time
8:30 - 09:00 - Mingling - Time for file uploading, poster mounting etc.
9:00 - 09:15 Introduction and motivation for the workshop
09:15 - 09:45 Session 1: Ethical, Legal and Technical Challenges and Considerations (Jim Torresen and co-organizers)
09:45 - 10:00 Poster teasers (3-5 minutes each)
Carlotta Rigotti and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Ensuring sexual safety in intimate human-machine interactions: A discussion on sex robots and the role of consent and safety
Tatsuhiko Inatani, Minoru Asada, Hiroko Kamide, Hirofumi Katsuno, Michio Okada, Nobuhito Abe and Yoshiyuki Ueda, Transdisciplinary Study on the ELSI of Building Intimate Relationship between Humans and ’Co-Habitant’ Robots
Eduardo Benitez Sandoval,
Eduardo Benitez Sandoval, Better Robots for Robot Natives: A Discussion Over the Philosophy Behind the Design of Domestic Robots Used by Infants
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break + Putting up posters/interaction
10:30 - 11:30 Session 2: Interactive session with workshop participants on how we address user/social perspectives using empathy cards. Introduction and facilitation by Praminda Caleb-Solly
11:30 - 12:30 Contributed presentation and interaction (Chair: Praminda Caleb-Solly and Yueh-Hsuan Weng)
Tiziana C Callari, Angela Daly, Riccardo Vecellio Segate, Ella-Mae Hubbard and Niels Lohse, Ethical Reflections: Privacy and Human Monitoring of Human-Robot collaboration in the Future Manufacturing Industry
Tiziana C Callari, Ella-Mae Hubbard and Niels Lohse, Exploring Ethical Dimensions: Worker Autonomy, Authority, and Agency in Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing Contexts
Yiwei Lyu, Wenhao Luo and John Dolan, Risk-based Socially-Compliant Behavior Planning for Autonomous Driving
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Session 3: Legal Perspectives – Regulatory Challenges (introduction and Q&A by Yueh-Hsuan Weng)
14:00 - 14:30 Invited talk by Paolo Dario: "Opportunities and New Responsibilities for Automation and for Robot Companions in the Coming Revolution of Industry 5.0". Chair: Jim Torresen
14:30 - 14:50 Contributed presentations and interaction (Chair: Jim Torresen and Yueh-Hsuan Weng)
Rui Liu, Amy Zhang, Sherry Li, Ruoming Jin and Hai N Phan, Federated Learning Overview and Inspiration for Robotics Research
Catherine Menon, Austen Rainer, Patrick Holthaus, Gabriella Lakatos and Silvio Carta, EHAZOP: A Proof of Concept Ethical Hazard Analysis of an Assistive Robot
15:10 – 15:45 Coffee break Poster session and interaction:
15:45 - 16:15 Session 4: Diversity and International Perspectives – standards and guidelines (intro by Ben Bland, chair of the IEEE P7014 Working Group Working Group Developing a Standard for Ethical considerations in Emulated Empathy in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (Affective Computing, Emotion AI))
16:15 - 16:45 Diversity and International Perspectives – diversity needs (selected speakers, representing diversity, will introduce their views on key questions about robot assistants with regard to their design, interaction skills, etc. + interaction with workshop attendees)
16:45 - 17:00 Wrap-up, concluding remarks and future directions (by workshop organizers)
17:00 Workshop Ends