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Role-Play as Responsible Robotics: The Virtual Witness Testimony Role-Play Interview for Investigating Hazardous Human-Robot Interactions

The development of responsible robotics requires paying attention to responsibility within the research process in addition to responsibility as the outcome of research. This paper describes the preparation and application of a novel method to explore hazardous human-robot interactions. The Virtual...

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Autores principales: Webb, Helena, Dumitru, Morgan, van Maris, Anouk, Winkle, Katie, Jirotka, Marina, Winfield, Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8275931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34268338
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.644336
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author Webb, Helena
Dumitru, Morgan
van Maris, Anouk
Winkle, Katie
Jirotka, Marina
Winfield, Alan
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description The development of responsible robotics requires paying attention to responsibility within the research process in addition to responsibility as the outcome of research. This paper describes the preparation and application of a novel method to explore hazardous human-robot interactions. The Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interview is an approach that enables participants to engage with scenarios in which a human being comes to physical harm whilst a robot is present and may have had a malfunction. Participants decide what actions they would take in the scenario and are encouraged to provide their observations and speculations on what happened. Data collection takes place online, a format that provides convenience as well as a safe space for participants to role play a hazardous encounter with minimal risk of suffering discomfort or distress. We provide a detailed account of how our initial set of Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interviews were conducted and describe the ways in which it proved to be an efficient approach that generated useful findings, and upheld our project commitments to Responsible Research and Innovation. We argue that the Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interview is a flexible and fruitful method that can be adapted to benefit research in human robot interaction and advance responsibility in robotics.
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spelling pubmed-82759312021-07-14 Role-Play as Responsible Robotics: The Virtual Witness Testimony Role-Play Interview for Investigating Hazardous Human-Robot Interactions Webb, Helena Dumitru, Morgan van Maris, Anouk Winkle, Katie Jirotka, Marina Winfield, Alan Front Robot AI Robotics and AI The development of responsible robotics requires paying attention to responsibility within the research process in addition to responsibility as the outcome of research. This paper describes the preparation and application of a novel method to explore hazardous human-robot interactions. The Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interview is an approach that enables participants to engage with scenarios in which a human being comes to physical harm whilst a robot is present and may have had a malfunction. Participants decide what actions they would take in the scenario and are encouraged to provide their observations and speculations on what happened. Data collection takes place online, a format that provides convenience as well as a safe space for participants to role play a hazardous encounter with minimal risk of suffering discomfort or distress. We provide a detailed account of how our initial set of Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interviews were conducted and describe the ways in which it proved to be an efficient approach that generated useful findings, and upheld our project commitments to Responsible Research and Innovation. We argue that the Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interview is a flexible and fruitful method that can be adapted to benefit research in human robot interaction and advance responsibility in robotics. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8275931/ /pubmed/34268338 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.644336 Text en Copyright © 2021 Webb, Dumitru, van Maris, Winkle, Jirotka and Winfield. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Webb, Helena
Dumitru, Morgan
van Maris, Anouk
Winkle, Katie
Jirotka, Marina
Winfield, Alan
Role-Play as Responsible Robotics: The Virtual Witness Testimony Role-Play Interview for Investigating Hazardous Human-Robot Interactions
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title_full_unstemmed Role-Play as Responsible Robotics: The Virtual Witness Testimony Role-Play Interview for Investigating Hazardous Human-Robot Interactions
title_short Role-Play as Responsible Robotics: The Virtual Witness Testimony Role-Play Interview for Investigating Hazardous Human-Robot Interactions
title_sort role-play as responsible robotics: the virtual witness testimony role-play interview for investigating hazardous human-robot interactions
topic Robotics and AI
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8275931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34268338
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.644336
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