REELER Researchers are presenting at the Human-Robot Interaction conference held March 11-14 in Daegu, Korea. The theme of the 2019 conference is "collaborative HRI". This year, Karolina Zawieska and Ben Vermeulen will present as part of the Late Breaking Report session. They will present a short paper regarding "Roboethics as a Research Puzzle".

Abstract:

This position paper discusses the question of incorporating roboethics into the roboticists’ thinking about their research. On the one hand, there has been a growing recognition of the need to develop and advance the field of roboethics. On the other hand, for different reasons, a large part of the robotics community has still been reluctant to explicitly address ethical considerations in robotics research. We argue here that in order to facilitate and foster ethical reflection in roboticists’ work, roboethics should be seen as a research puzzle. This implies studying rather than only applying specific ethical principles, as well as taking highly creative and pioneering approaches towards emerging ethical challenges.

For more information about the conference, visit the HRI webpage.