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Rethinking Privacy in the Age of Social Robots

Coggins, T.N. (author)

In the introduction of this thesis, I contend that robot ethics, as a research field, generally treats privacy as the appropriate distribution of information, and therefore overlooks privacy concerns raised by robots beyond this conceptualization’s purview. I illustrate this contention by evaluating a hypothetical case involving a household...

doctoral thesis 2024

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‘How Would you Score Yourself?’: The Effect of Self-assessment Strategy Through Robots on Children’s Motivation and Performance in Piano Practice

Song, Heqiu (author), Tsiakas, K. (author), Ham, Jaap (author), Markopoulos, Panos (author), Barakova, Emilia I. (author)

This research examines how to design social robots to support self-regulated learning skills for piano practice. More specifically, a social robot is used to provide feedback to children and initiate self-assessment. To assess the impact of this approach on children’s motivation and performance, we conducted an experiment in a music school...

journal article 2023

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Ethics of socially disruptive technologies: An introduction

van de Poel, I.R. (author), Frank, Lily Eva (author), Hermann, Julia (author), Hopster, Jeroen (author), Lenzi, Dominic (author), Nyholm, Sven (author), Taebi, B. (author), Ziliotti, E. (author)

Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global...

book 2023

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The seven troubles with norm-compliant robots

Coggins, T.N. (author), Steinert, S. (author)

Many researchers from robotics, machine ethics, and adjacent fields seem to assume that norms represent good behavior that social robots should learn to benefit their users and society. We would like to complicate this view and present seven key troubles with norm-compliant robots: (1) norm biases, (2) paternalism (3) tyrannies of the majority, ...

journal article 2023

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Programmed to do good: The categorical imperative as a key to moral behavior of social robots

Fink, Matthias (author), Maresch, Daniela (author), Gartner, J. (author)

Social robots—such as autonomous vehicles, service robots, or healthcare robots—are designed to support tasks in a broad range of human activities. However, these robots face moral dilemmas because they must make decisions that may do good for one human but potentially inflict harm on another. We argue that Kant's categorical imperative provides...

journal article 2023

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What factors contribute to the acceptance of artificial intelligence? A systematic review

Kelly, Sage (author), Kaye, Sherrie Anne (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents are predicted to infiltrate most industries within the next decade, creating a personal, industrial, and social shift towards the new technology. As a result, there has been a surge of interest and research towards user acceptance of AI technology in recent years. However, the existing research appears...

journal article 2023

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Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward

Fleres, Antonio (author), Veling, Louise (author), Broz, F. (author), Damiano, Luisa (author)

This article proposes an integrative approach to robotics research, based on bringing interdisciplinarity into the lab. Such an approach will facilitate researchers across various fields in gaining a more nuanced understanding of technology, how it is developed, and its potential impacts. We describe how a philosopher spent time embedded in...

journal article 2023

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Getting acquainted: First steps for child-robot relationship formation

Ligthart, Mike E.U. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author)

In this article we discuss two studies of children getting acquainted with an autonomous socially assistive robot. The success of the first encounter is key for a sustainable long-term supportive relationship. We provide four validated behavior design elements that enable the robot to robustly get acquainted with the child. The first are five...

journal article 2022

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Resonance as a Design Strategy for AI and Social Robots

Lomas, J.D. (author), Lin, Albert (author), Dikker, Suzanne (author), Forster, D. (author), Lupetti, M.L. (author), Huisman, G. (author), Habekost, Julika (author), Beardow, C.R. (author), van der Maden, W.L.A. (author)

Resonance, a powerful and pervasive phenomenon, appears to play a major role in human interactions. This article investigates the relationship between the physical mechanism of resonance and the human experience of resonance, and considers possibilities for enhancing the experience of resonance within human–robot interactions. We first...

journal article 2022

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Social robots as eating companions

Niewiadomski, Radoslaw (author), Bruijnes, Merijn (author), Huisman, G. (author), Gallagher, Conor Patrick (author), Mancini, Maurizio (author)

Previous research shows that eating together (i.e., commensality) impacts food choice, time spent eating, and enjoyment. Conversely, eating alone is considered a possible cause of unhappiness. In this paper, we conceptually explore how interactive technology might allow for the creation of artificial commensal companions: embodied agents...

journal article 2022

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Interactive Education on Sleep Hygiene with a Social Robot at a Pediatric Oncology Outpatient Clinic: Feasibility, Experiences, and Preliminary Effectiveness

van Bindsbergen, Kelly L.A. (author), van der Hoek, Hinke (author), van Gorp, Marloes (author), Ligthart, Mike E.U. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Alderliesten, T. (author), Bosman, P.A.N. (author), Merks, Johannes H.M. (author)

Objectives: Children with cancer often experience sleep problems, which are associated with many negative physical and psychological health outcomes, as well as with a lower quality of life. Therefore, interventions are strongly required to improve sleep in this population. We evaluated interactive education with respect to sleep hygiene with...

journal article 2022

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Memory-Based Personalization for Fostering a Long-Term Child-Robot Relationship

Ligthart, Mike E.U. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author)

After the novelty effect wears off children need a new motivator to keep interacting with a social robot. Enabling children to build a relationship with the robot is the key for facilitating a sustainable long-term interaction. We designed a memory-based personalization strategy that safeguards the continuity between sessions and tailors the...

conference paper 2022

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Understanding Design Preferences for Robots for Pain Management: A Co-Design Study

Zhang, Feiran (author), Broz, F. (author), Dertien, Edwin (author), Kousi, Nefeli (author), Van Gurp, Jules A.M. (author), Ferrari, Oriana Isabella (author), Malagon, Ignacio (author), Barakova, Emilia I. (author)

There is growing interest in psychological interventions using socially assistive robots to mitigate distress and pain in the pediatric population. This work seeks to address the deficit in understanding of what features and functionality young children and their parents desire to help with pain management by using co-design, a common...

conference paper 2022

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Eating with an artificial commensal companion

Gallagher, Conor Patrick (author), Niewiadomski, Radoslaw (author), Bruijnes, M. (author), Huisman, G. (author), Mancini, Maurizio (author)

Commensality is defined as "a social group that eats together", and eating in a commensality setting has a number of positive effects on humans. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of technology on commensality by presenting an experiment in which a toy robot showing non-verbal social behaviours tries to influence a...

conference paper 2020

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Quality of Care Perceived by Older Patients and Caregivers in Integrated Care Pathways With Interviewing Assistance From a Social Robot: Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial

Boumans, R.J.L. (author), van Meulen, Fokke (author), van Aalst, William (author), Albers, Joyce (author), Janssen, Marèse (author), Peters-Kop, Marieke (author), Huisman- de Waal, Getty (author), van de Poll, Alexandra (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Olde Rikkert, Marcel (author)

Background: Society is facing a global shortage of 17 million health care workers, along with increasing health care demands from a growing number of older adults. Social robots are being considered as solutions to part of this problem. Objective: Our objective is to evaluate the quality of care perceived by patients and caregivers for an...

review 2020

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Enthusiastic Robots make Better Contact

Saad, E. (author), Broekens, D.J. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author)

This paper presents the design and evaluation of human-like welcoming behaviors for a humanoid robot to draw the attention of passersby by following a three-step model: (1) selecting a target (person) to engage, (2) executing behaviors to draw the target's attention, and (3) monitoring the attentive response. A computer vision algorithm was...

conference paper 2019

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The situated Design Rationale: of a social robot for child's disease self-management

Looije, R. (author)

A young boy with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is supported by a social robot on the road to self-management. The robot has knowledge on the goals that the boy needs to reach, as discussed with his health care professional. The robot also knows the boy’s activity options and preferences. It suggests activities based on this knowledge, but also...

doctoral thesis 2019

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Detecting Perceived Appropriateness of a Robot’s Social Positioning Behavior from Non-Verbal Cues: ‘A robot study in scarlet’

Vroon, Jered (author), Englebienne, Gwenn (author), Evers, Vanessa (author)

What if a robot could detect when you think it got too close to you during its approach? This would allow it to correct or compensate for its social ‘mistake’. It would also allow for a responsive approach, where that robot would reactively find suitable approach behavior through and during the interaction. We investigated if it is possible to...

conference paper 2019

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A Feasibility Study of a Social Robot Collecting Patient Reported Outcome Measurements from Older Adults

Boumans, R.J.L. (author), van Meulen, Fokke (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Olde Rikkert, Marcel (author)

Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an essential means for collecting information on the effectiveness of hospital care as perceived by the patients themselves. Especially older adult patients often require help from nursing staff to successfully complete PROMs, but this staff already has a high work load. Therefore, a social robot...

journal article 2019

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A video-based assessment of likeability and usability in a play application of robots for children

Lupetti, M.L. (author), Norese, Maria Franca (author), Wu, Xiaolu (author), Mi, Haipeng (author)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conduct research with children, who have different abilities from adults, in terms of language understanding and level of attention, is a challenging task, especially concerning novel interactive systems such as social robots. Consequently, self-reporting methods are often replaced or supplemented by...

journal article 2019