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Ethical Issues
Part of Project Lirec
The ethical questionnaire:
- Describe the technology and/or scenario that you are working with?
- What is the main motivation for choosing this particular technology/scenario?
- What would you say are the underlying ideas behind your research?
- How do people (general public and other researchers) react to your work? E.g. common questions.
- What are the reasons that you work with robots (instead of another kind of technology or design solution)?
- Do you think that your work expresses any particular values? Please describe these. For example, does it reflect any cultural, moral or aesthetic values, and how?
- How do you think that your own values and interest may affect your research/scenario?
- How do you think that your work may affect society (both negative and positive)? Does it emphasize, change or follow an existing tradition?
- What are your thoughts about robots in general?
- How would you define a robot?
- Do your have other comments reflections about ethics and robotics/robots?
Robots and Culture
Lirec is concerned with the use of robot technology in everyday settings:
- Research prototypes
- Commercial robots
- Robots in popular media
- Robots in the art scene
How do they affect social practises? The use of Value Sensitive Design within lirec.
Ethics questions will be part of:
- The scenarios
- Workshops
- User studies