TY - GEN
T1 - Robots for Social Good
T2 - 14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2019
AU - Lee, Hee Rin
AU - Cheon, Eunjeong
AU - De Graaf, Maartje
AU - Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia
AU - Zaga, Cristina
AU - Young, James
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/3/22
Y1 - 2019/3/22
N2 - Robots are being increasingly developed as social actors, entering public and personal spaces such as airports, shopping malls, care centres, and even homes, and using human or animal-like social techniques to work with people. Some even aim to engineer social situations, or are designed specifically for an emotional response (e.g., comforting a person). However, if we consider these robots as social interventions, then it is important to recognize that the robots design - its behavior, its application, its appearance, even its marketing image - will have an impact on the society and in the spaces it enters. While in some cases this may be a positive effect, social robots can also contribute negatively, e.g., reinforcing gender stereotypes or promoting ageist views. This full-day workshop aims to offer a forum for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) researchers to explore this issue, and to work toward potential opportunities for the field. Ultimately, we want to promote robots for social good that can contribute to positive social changes for socio-political issues (e.g., ageism, feminism, homelessness, environmental issues). The political aspects of technologies have long been scrutinized in related areas such as Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In particular, critical design explicitly targets the design of technologies that can contribute to our understanding of how technology can impact society. This workshop aims to strengthen this discussion in the HRI community, with the goal of working toward initial recommendations for how HRI designers can include elements of critical design in their work.
AB - Robots are being increasingly developed as social actors, entering public and personal spaces such as airports, shopping malls, care centres, and even homes, and using human or animal-like social techniques to work with people. Some even aim to engineer social situations, or are designed specifically for an emotional response (e.g., comforting a person). However, if we consider these robots as social interventions, then it is important to recognize that the robots design - its behavior, its application, its appearance, even its marketing image - will have an impact on the society and in the spaces it enters. While in some cases this may be a positive effect, social robots can also contribute negatively, e.g., reinforcing gender stereotypes or promoting ageist views. This full-day workshop aims to offer a forum for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) researchers to explore this issue, and to work toward potential opportunities for the field. Ultimately, we want to promote robots for social good that can contribute to positive social changes for socio-political issues (e.g., ageism, feminism, homelessness, environmental issues). The political aspects of technologies have long been scrutinized in related areas such as Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In particular, critical design explicitly targets the design of technologies that can contribute to our understanding of how technology can impact society. This workshop aims to strengthen this discussion in the HRI community, with the goal of working toward initial recommendations for how HRI designers can include elements of critical design in their work.
KW - Critical Design
KW - Participatory Design
KW - Robots for Social Good
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U2 - 10.1109/HRI.2019.8673130
DO - 10.1109/HRI.2019.8673130
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85063999210
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 681
EP - 682
BT - HRI 2019 - 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 11 March 2019 through 14 March 2019
ER -