Perspectives on Moral Agency in Human–Robot Interaction

When: 9:00 AM-13:00 PM, March 13, 2023

Where: Room Arkaden

Stockholm, Sweden & Virtual Event

Please contact us at bkim55@gmu.edu if you plan to attend this workshop in-person and paid the registration fee but could not select this workshop because it was already full.

Overview

Establishing when, how, and why robots should be considered moral agents is key for advancing human-robot interaction. For instance, whether a robot is considered a moral agent has significant implications for how researchers, designers, and users can, should, and do make sense of robots and whether their agency in turn triggers social and moral cognitive and behavioral processes in humans. Robotic moral agency also has significant implications for how people should and do hold robots morally accountable, ascribe blame to them, develop trust in their actions, and determine when these robots wield moral influence.

In this half-day workshop on Perspectives on Moral Agency in Human-Robot Interaction, we plan to bring together participants who are interested in or have studied the topics concerning a robot’s moral agency and its impact on human behavior. We intend to provide a platform for holding interdisciplinary discussions about (1) which elements should be considered to determine the moral agency of a robot, (2) how these elements can be measured, (3) how they can be realized computationally and applied to the robotic system, and (4) what societal impact is anticipated when moral agency is assigned to a robot. We encourage participants from diverse research fields, such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy, as well as participants from social groups marginalized in terms of gender, ethnicity, and culture.

Topics of Interest

Theoretical definition of robot moral agency
Antecedents of moral agency
Measurement tool of robot moral agency
Computational models for robot moral agency
Implications of moral agency for HRI
Downstream societal implications of robot moral agency

Submission Instructions

We welcome papers on these topics that adhere to the following format guidelines:

Option 1. Extended abstracts: up to 2 pages excluding references

Option 2. Short papers: 3-4 pages excluding references

All papers for the conference must be (a) anonymized, (b) submitted in PDF format, and (c) conform to the two-column ACM Conference Proceedings specifications. Templates are available at this link (US letter).

You can also start writing using this Overleaf link directly. In the sample-authordraft.tex, please replace \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review]{acmart} with \documentclass[sigconf,anonymous,review]{acmart}

It will turn the document into the two column format.

We will adopt a mutual review process. Authors of submitted papers will be asked to provide a small number of reviews for fellow authors.

Papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmahri2023

Important Dates

NEW Submission Deadline: February 1, 2023
NEW Notification of Acceptance: February 13, 2023
Camera-ready Deadline: February 24, 2023
Workshop Registration Deadline: March 8, 2023 (Early Registration: January 31, 2023)
Workshop: March 13, 2023