09:00 - 09:15 Opening & Welcome
09:15 - 09:45 Invited Talk - Mihalis Kritikos: Designing Ethical and Trustworthy AI Research Policies at EU level
09:45 - 10:15 Invited Talk - M. Antonietta Grasso: The situated nature of AI ethics and the need for local fine tuning
10:15 - 10:45 Invited Talk - Hatice Gunes: Bias and Fairness in AI Powered Human-Robot Interaction
___________________________
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
___________________________
11:00 - 12:30 Diversity Panel
The panel will explore methodological, technical, and ethical challenges in researching diversity and inclusion in HRI, using a shared Miro board for live idea mapping. Experts and all workshop participants will discuss diverse sampling, bias-mitigation techniques, and goals for inclusive social robots. The conversation will be audio-recorded in anonymized form.
___________________________
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
___________________________
13:30 - 14:15 Invited Talk - Friederike Eyssel: Doing research with social robots: Ethics considerations
14:15 - 15:15 Panel Discussion (Friederike Eyssel, Minha Lee, Kim Baraka, Pino Maribel): Ethical issues and dilemmas encountered in the research and work experience, and how to consider them during the HRR design and implementation process
___________________________
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break
___________________________
15:30 - 16:00 Invited Talk - Tobias Mahler: Robots, Humans and the Law
16:00 - 17:00 Paper presentations
Boyoung Kim: Toward a Relational Theory of Accountability in Cross-Cultural Human-Robot Interaction
Carlos H. N. Melo and Pablo Barros: A Comparative Study of Machine Unlearning Techniques for Ethical AI Compliance in Brazil
Jessica Barfield: Who Suffers When Robots are Harmed?
Nyomi Morris and Tom Williams: Somaesthetic Artifact Analysis: Uncovering Participants' Robotic Sensory Needs and Desires
17:00 - 17:15 Closing Remarks