Ethical Challenges in the Human-Robot Interaction Field
It addresses ethical challenges for HRI researchers and participants, but is incremental as it builds on prior work without introducing new methods or data.
The paper identifies five examples of ethical issues in human-robot interaction (HRI) research, aiming to stimulate discussion and consensus on handling them, based on a trend of underreporting ethical conduct in the field.
The aim of this extended abstract is to introduce five examples of ethical issues in HRI that could have potential ethical implications, particularly on HRI participants. We consider these examples important to discuss in order to reach a consensus on how to handle them. Due to space limitations, this list is far from exhaustive and we hope that it can lead to a wider discussion that stimulates HRI researchers to think ethically. Previous work has shown a trend of underreporting ethical conduct in the HRI field; in this extended abstract we consider some of the ethical issues that could arise in HRI research.