Do people hold a humanoid robot morally accountable for the harm it causes?

HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-40

  Kahn, Peter H ^a   Kanda, Takayuki ^b   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^b,c   Gill, Brian T ^d   Ruckert, Jolina H ^a   Shen, Solace ^a   Gary, Heather E ^a   Reichert, Aimee L ^a   Freier, Nathan G ^e   Severson, Rachel L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MICROSOFT   (United States)

^f WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

human robot interaction; interaction pattern; morality; robot causing harm; sociality

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; STUDENTS;

HUMANOID ROBOT; HUMANS-ROBOT INTERACTIONS; INTERACTION PATTERN; MORALITY; PERFORMANCE; ROBOT CAUSING HARMS; SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES; SOCIAL LIFE; SOCIALITY; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84859949598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157689.2157696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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