TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the Ethical Landscape of Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue
AU - Harbers, Maaike
AU - de Greeff, Joachim
AU - Kruijff-Korbayova, Ivana
AU - Neerincx, Mark
AU - Hindriks, Koen
PY - 2017/1/7
Y1 - 2017/1/7
N2 - As robots are increasingly used in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions, it becomes highly relevant to study how SAR robots can be developed and deployed in a responsible way. In contrast to some other robot application domains, e.g. military and healthcare, the ethics of robot-assisted SAR are relatively under examined. This paper aims to fill this gap by assessing and analyzing important values and value tensions of stakeholders of SAR robots. The paper describes the outcomes of several Value Assessment workshops that were conducted with rescue workers, in the context of a European research project on robot-assisted SAR (the TRADR project). The workshop outcomes are analyzed and key ethical concerns and dilemmas are identified and discussed. Several recommendations for future ethics research leading to responsible development and deployment of SAR robots are provided.
AB - As robots are increasingly used in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions, it becomes highly relevant to study how SAR robots can be developed and deployed in a responsible way. In contrast to some other robot application domains, e.g. military and healthcare, the ethics of robot-assisted SAR are relatively under examined. This paper aims to fill this gap by assessing and analyzing important values and value tensions of stakeholders of SAR robots. The paper describes the outcomes of several Value Assessment workshops that were conducted with rescue workers, in the context of a European research project on robot-assisted SAR (the TRADR project). The workshop outcomes are analyzed and key ethical concerns and dilemmas are identified and discussed. Several recommendations for future ethics research leading to responsible development and deployment of SAR robots are provided.
KW - Roboethics
KW - Search and rescue robotics
KW - Human-robot interaction
KW - Ethical concerns
KW - Values
KW - Value sensitive design
UR - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-46667-5_7.pdf
U2 - 10.1007%2F978-3-319-46667-5_7
DO - 10.1007%2F978-3-319-46667-5_7
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-319-46665-1
VL - 84
T3 - Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
SP - 93
EP - 107
BT - A World with Robots
A2 - Aldinhas Ferreira, Maria Isabel
A2 - Silva Sequeira, João
A2 - Tokhi , Mohammad Osman
A2 - Kadar, Endre
A2 - Virk, Gurvinder Singh
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - International Conference on Robot Ethics
Y2 - 23 October 2015 through 24 October 2015
ER -