I gave a short talk at the Furhat Robotics Conference. I talk about the questions which robots and their related companies, will survive.
Tag: robots
Interview with Bryan Crump on Nights at RNZ
I had the pleasure to talk with Bryan Crump from RNZ about our work on the morality of robot abuse. Having the opportunity to talk about this topic in depth is much better than a short TV appearance. Here is the full interview:
The Morality Of Abusing A Robot
Our paper The Morality Of Abusing A Robot has been published.
We are happy to announce that our paper “The Morality Of Abusing A Robot” has been published under the Creative Commons license at the Paladyn Journal. You can also download the PDF directly.
It is not uncommon for humans to exhibit abusive behaviour towards robots. This study compares how abusive behaviour towards a human is perceived differently in comparison with identical behaviour towards a robot. We showed participants 16 video clips of unparalleled quality that depicted different levels of violence and abuse. For each video, we asked participants to rate the moral acceptability of the action, the violence depicted, the intention to harm, and how abusive the action was. The results indicate no significant difference in the perceived morality of the actions shown in the videos across the two victim agents. When the agents started to fight back, their reactive aggressive behaviour was rated differently. Humans fighting back were seen as less immoral compared with robots fighting back. A mediation analysis showed that this was predominately due to participants perceiving the robot’s response as more abusive than the human’s response.
We created a little video to demonstrate the two main conditions of the experiment, a human or a robot being abused and then fighting back. We would like to acknowledge Jake Watson and Sam Gorski from Corridor Digital who made the stimuli for this experiment available.
Interview with the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast
Marwa El Diwiny over at the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast interviewed me about my work on human-robot interaction. It was an interesting conversation that I enjoyed. Listen to the episode below or on these platforms:
New Episode of the HRI Podcast available.
New HRI Podcast episode about ATR is available.
The new HRI Podcast episode entitled “Humans and/or Robots at ATR” is now available. Here is the abstract:
The Advance Telecommunication Research Institute International in Japan is a major contributor to Human-Robot Interaction. I interview Takayuki Kanda, Michita Imai and Dylan F. Glas about their work on robots at ATR. How was Robovie developed and what is the goal of the Erika android? In two episodes we will have a closer look at the people working at ATR and the robots they created. We will also discuss what it means to work for a research lab like ATR in Japan.