The curious case of human-robot morality

HRI 2011 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-250

  Shen, Solace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Free will; Human robot interaction; Moral agent; Moral philosophy

Indexed keywords

FREE WILL; MORAL AGENT; MORAL AGENTS; MORAL PHILOSOPHY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 79953134996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1957656.1957755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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