ICRES 2019 is the fourth edition of the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards series and was held within the premises of London South Bank University, London, UK during 29–30 July 2019. The ICRES conference series provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussing the fundamental and pressing safety, ethical, legal, and societal issues in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and the scope is not limited to physical robots.

Below you can find the proceedings in a digital 3d flipbook and as a separate more detailed list. In the list presented, you can find detailed information for each paper along with its DOI and link to the respective paper in PDF format.

 

 

List of papers

*all DOIs are under revision and will be finalized and added to the papers by the end of 2019.

Plenary presentations

  • A. Winfield (2019). Ethical standards in robotics and AI: What are they and why they matter? In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 3). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • O. Ulgen (2019). Legal responsibility as a first-order ethical norm in the design and development of autonomous systems. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 4). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • K. Dautenhahn (2019). Ethical issues in robot-assisted play for children with special needs. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 5). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • R. Chatila (2019). What does it mean to trust AI systems? In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 6). CLAWAR Association Ltd.

Regular Presentations

Ethical principles

  • R. C. Arkin, J. Borenstein and A. R. Wagner (2019). Competing ethical frameworks mediated by moral emotions in HRI: Motivations, background, and approach. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 9 – 16). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • N. S. Govindarajulu and S. Bringsjord (2019). Argument aggregation in a deontic logic. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 17 – 18). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • A. van Maris, N. Zook, M. Studley and S. Dogramadzi (2019). The need for ethical principles and guidelines in social robots. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 19 – 24). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • T. Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa and E. Mnkandla (2019). I am a “Thou” therefore “I am”: Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 25 – 34). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • E. E. Kadar (2019). A pragmatic approach to the problem of moral agency for robot ethics. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 35 – 42). CLAWAR Association Ltd.

Ethical issues on social robotics

  • K. Winkle and A. van Maris (2019). Social influence and deception in socially assistive robotics. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 45 – 46). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • P. J. S. Goncalves, S. Santos, B. Lourenço, C. Pereira, V. Pinheira, M. J. G. Moreira and S. Silva (2019). From traditional games to robotic games: ethical issues with elders. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 47 – 54). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • M. F. Silva, B. Malheiro, P. Ferreira and P. Guedes (2019). Promoting ethical practices in engineering undergraduates. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 55 – 63). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • Y. L. Choi, E. C. Choi, D. V. Chien, T. T. Tin and J.-W. Kim (2019). Making of South Korean robot ethics charter: Revised proposition in 2018. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 64 – 68). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • M. I. A. Ferreira (2019). Robot companions: A technological dream or a human nightmare? In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 69 – 75). CLAWAR Association Ltd.

Human factors in robot ethics

  • M. Story, C. Jaksic, S. Fletcher, P. Webb and J. Carberry (2019). Evaluating the use of human aware navigation in industrial robot arms. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 79 – 86). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • T. Johnson, S. Fletcher and R. Kutka (2019). Understanding how proximity to a robot affects perceived workload. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 87 – 95). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • M. K. Heckles and S. Fletcher (2019). Human-Robot Collaboration: identifying the challenges of manufacturing system integration. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 96 – 106). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • G. Charalambous, S. R. Fletcher and P. Webb (2019). A review of a human factors integration approach for the introduction of collaborative industrial robots in manufacturing settings. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 107 – 114). CLAWAR Association Ltd.

Regulation and safety

  • A. Chatzimichali and D. Chrysostomou (2019). Human-data interaction and user rights at the personal robot era. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 117 – 124). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • M. I. A. Ferreira (2019). When children navigate RPAS: Steps towards safe recreation drone flying. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 125 – 136). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • I. Georgilas (2019). Explainable AI, model reconciliation and system-level analysis for safe-control of medical devices. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 137 – 141). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • B. Ward-Cherrier and A. van Maris (2019). Ethical implications of embodied prosthetic devices. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 142 – 143). CLAWAR Association Ltd.
  • A. Osherenko (2019). Simulating urban life with ethically conscious tourists. In M. O. Tokhi, M. I. A. Ferreira, N. S. Govindarajulu, M. Silva, G. S. Virk, E. Kadar, and S. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) (pp. 144 – 151). CLAWAR Association Ltd.