2020

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  Störzinger, T., Carros, F., Wierling, A., Misselhorn, C. & Wieching, R. (2020)Categorizing Social Robots with Respect to Dimensions Relevant to Ethical, Social and Legal Implications

  IN i-com, Vol. 19, Pages: 47–57 doi:10.1515/icom-2020-0005
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  The aim of this paper is to suggest a framework for categorizing social robots with respect to four dimensions relevant to an ethical, legal and social evaluation. We argue that by categorizing them thusly, we can circumvent problematic evaluations of social robots that are often based on overly broad and abstract considerations. Instead of questioning, for example, whether social robots are ethically good or bad in general, we instead propose that different configurations of (and combinations thereof) the suggested dimensions entail different paradigmatic challenges with respect to ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). We therefore encourage practitioners to consider these paradigmatic challenges when designing social robots to find creative design solutions.

  @article{storzinger_categorizing_2020,
  title = {Categorizing {Social} {Robots} with {Respect} to {Dimensions} {Relevant} to {Ethical}, {Social} and {Legal} {Implications}},
  volume = {19},
  issn = {2196-6826},
  url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/icom-2020-0005/html},
  doi = {10.1515/icom-2020-0005},
  abstract = {The aim of this paper is to suggest a framework for categorizing social robots with respect to four dimensions relevant to an ethical, legal and social evaluation. We argue that by categorizing them thusly, we can circumvent problematic evaluations of social robots that are often based on overly broad and abstract considerations. Instead of questioning, for example, whether social robots are ethically good or bad in general, we instead propose that different configurations of (and combinations thereof) the suggested dimensions entail different paradigmatic challenges with respect to ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). We therefore encourage practitioners to consider these paradigmatic challenges when designing social robots to find creative design solutions.},
  language = {en},
  number = {1},
  urldate = {2021-04-16},
  journal = {i-com},
  author = {Störzinger, Tobias and Carros, Felix and Wierling, Anne and Misselhorn, Catrin and Wieching, Rainer},
  month = apr,
  year = {2020},
  note = {Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
  Section: i-com},
  pages = {47--57},
  }

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  Carros, F., Meurer, J., Löffler, D., Unbehaun, D., Matthies, S., Koch, I., Wieching, R., Randall, D., Hassenzahl, M. & Wulf, V. (2020)Exploring Human-Robot Interaction with the Elderly: Results from a Ten-Week Case Study in a Care Home

  New York, NY, USA, Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Pages: 1–12 doi:10.1145/3313831.3376402
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  Ageing societies and the associated pressure on the care systems are major drivers for new developments in socially assistive robotics. To understand better the real-world potential of robot-based assistance, we undertook a 10-week case study in a care home involving groups of residents, caregivers and managers as stakeholders. We identified both, enablers and barriers to the potential implementation of robot systems. The study employed the robot platform Pepper, which was deployed with a view to understanding better multi-domain interventions with a robot supporting physical activation, cognitive training and social facilitation. We employed the robot in a group setting in a care facility over the course of 10 weeks and 20 sessions, observing how stakeholders, including residents and caregivers, appropriated, adapted to, and perceived the robot. We also conducted interviews with 11 residents and caregivers. Our results indicate that the residents were positively engaged in the training sessions that were moderated by the robot. The study revealed that such humanoid robots can work in a care home but that there is a moderating person needed, that is in control of the robot.

  @inproceedings{carros_exploring_2020,
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  series = {{CHI} '20},
  title = {Exploring {Human}-{Robot} {Interaction} with the {Elderly}: {Results} from a {Ten}-{Week} {Case} {Study} in a {Care} {Home}},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-6708-0},
  shorttitle = {Exploring {Human}-{Robot} {Interaction} with the {Elderly}},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376402},
  doi = {10.1145/3313831.3376402},
  abstract = {Ageing societies and the associated pressure on the care systems are major drivers for new developments in socially assistive robotics. To understand better the real-world potential of robot-based assistance, we undertook a 10-week case study in a care home involving groups of residents, caregivers and managers as stakeholders. We identified both, enablers and barriers to the potential implementation of robot systems. The study employed the robot platform Pepper, which was deployed with a view to understanding better multi-domain interventions with a robot supporting physical activation, cognitive training and social facilitation. We employed the robot in a group setting in a care facility over the course of 10 weeks and 20 sessions, observing how stakeholders, including residents and caregivers, appropriated, adapted to, and perceived the robot. We also conducted interviews with 11 residents and caregivers. Our results indicate that the residents were positively engaged in the training sessions that were moderated by the robot. The study revealed that such humanoid robots can work in a care home but that there is a moderating person needed, that is in control of the robot.},
  urldate = {2021-04-15},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 {CHI} {Conference} on {Human} {Factors} in {Computing} {Systems}},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  author = {Carros, Felix and Meurer, Johanna and Löffler, Diana and Unbehaun, David and Matthies, Sarah and Koch, Inga and Wieching, Rainer and Randall, Dave and Hassenzahl, Marc and Wulf, Volker},
  month = apr,
  year = {2020},
  keywords = {ethics, user studies, elderly care, social robots, a-paper},
  pages = {1--12},
  }

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  Habscheid, S., Hrncal, C., Carros, F. & Lüssem, J. (2020)Professionelle Emotionalität und humanoide Robotik in der institutionellen Kommunikation

  IN Gruber, H., Spitzmüller, J. & de Cillia, R. (Eds.), Institutionelle und organisationale Kommunikation Theorie, Methodologie, Empirie und Kritik (Kommunikation im Fokus – Arbeiten zur Angewandten Linguistik) Wien
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  @incollection{habscheid_professionelle_2020,
  address = {Wien},
  edition = {Band 9},
  title = {Professionelle {Emotionalität} und humanoide {Robotik} in der institutionellen {Kommunikation}},
  isbn = {978-3-8471-1125-2},
  url = {https://www.wineme.uni-siegen.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/9783847011255.1.169.pdf},
  booktitle = {Institutionelle und organisationale {Kommunikation} {Theorie}, {Methodologie}, {Empirie} und {Kritik} ({Kommunikation} im {Fokus} – {Arbeiten} zur {Angewandten} {Linguistik})},
  publisher = {Vienna University Press bei V\&R unipress},
  author = {Habscheid, Stephan and Hrncal, Christine and Carros, Felix and Lüssem, Jens},
  editor = {Gruber, Helmut and Spitzmüller, Jürgen and de Cillia, Rudolf},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {169--188},
  }

2019

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  Lehmann, J., Carros, F., Unbehaun, D., Wieching, R. & Lüssem, J. (2019)Einsatzfelder der sozialen Robotik in der Pflege

  IN Stoffers, C., Krämer, N. & Heitmann, C. (Eds.)., Pages: pp. 88–113
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  @inproceedings{lehmann_einsatzfelder_2019,
  title = {Einsatzfelder der sozialen {Robotik} in der {Pflege}},
  url = {https://www.lehmanns.de/shop/medizin-pharmazie/48102343-9783947566754-digitale-transformation-im-krankenhaus},
  booktitle = {Digitale {Transformation} im {Krankenhaus}},
  author = {Lehmann, Jasmin and Carros, Felix and Unbehaun, David and Wieching, Rainer and Lüssem, Jens},
  editor = {Stoffers, Christian and Krämer, Nicolas and Heitmann, Christian},
  year = {2019},
  pages = {pp. 88--113},
  }

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  Unbehaun, D., Aal, K., Carros, F., Wieching, R. & Wulf, V. (2019)Creative and Cognitive Activities in Social Assistive Robots and Older Adults: Results from an Exploratory Field Study with Pepper

  , Publisher: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
  [BibTeX]

  @inproceedings{unbehaun_creative_2019,
  title = {Creative and {Cognitive} {Activities} in {Social} {Assistive} {Robots} and {Older} {Adults}: {Results} from an {Exploratory} {Field} {Study} with {Pepper}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th {European} {Conference} on {Computer}-{Supported} {Cooperative} {Work}-{Demos} and {Posters}},
  publisher = {European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)},
  author = {Unbehaun, David and Aal, Konstantin and Carros, Felix and Wieching, Rainer and Wulf, Volker},
  year = {2019},
  }

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  Carros, F. (2019)Roboter in der Pflege, ein Schreckgespenst?

  doi:10.18420/muc2019-ws-588
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  Humanoide Roboter dringen verstärkt in die Wahrnehmung von Akteuren in der Pflege. Die Darstellung der verfügbaren Systeme wird durch die Medien häufig überzeichnet und führt bei den Betroffenen neben positiven Reaktion auch teilweise zu Ängsten. Dieser Beitrag geht spezifisch auf den Aspekt der Ängste ein. Entmündigung und Datenschutz sind dabei bei allen Akteuren das vorherrschende Thema und führen zu großer Verunsicherung wie das Leben und die Arbeitswelten durch den Einsatz von Robotern verändert werden. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Ängste der unterschiedlichen Akteure auf und plädiert für eine transparente Entwicklung von Robotern die gemeinsam mit den relevanten Akteuren in der Pflege stattfinden soll.

  @article{carros_roboter_2019,
  title = {Roboter in der {Pflege}, ein {Schreckgespenst}?},
  url = {http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/25218},
  doi = {10.18420/muc2019-ws-588},
  abstract = {Humanoide Roboter dringen verstärkt in die Wahrnehmung von Akteuren in der Pflege. Die Darstellung der verfügbaren Systeme wird durch die Medien häufig überzeichnet und führt bei den Betroffenen neben positiven Reaktion auch teilweise zu Ängsten. Dieser Beitrag geht spezifisch auf den Aspekt der Ängste ein. Entmündigung und Datenschutz sind dabei bei allen Akteuren das vorherrschende Thema und führen zu großer Verunsicherung wie das Leben und die Arbeitswelten durch den Einsatz von Robotern verändert werden. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Ängste der unterschiedlichen Akteure auf und plädiert für eine transparente Entwicklung von Robotern die gemeinsam mit den relevanten Akteuren in der Pflege stattfinden soll.},
  language = {de},
  urldate = {2021-04-16},
  author = {Carros, Felix},
  year = {2019},
  note = {Accepted: 2019-09-05T01:07:28Z
  Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.},
  }

2018

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  Habscheid, S., Hrncal, C., Lüssem, J., Wieching, R., Carros, F. & Wulf, V. (2018)Robotics and Emotion – Stereotypes vs. everyday situations

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  @book{habscheid_robotics_2018,
  title = {Robotics and {Emotion} - {Stereotypes} vs. everyday situations},
  url = {https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/07/01/robotics-and-emotion/},
  urldate = {2020-05-04},
  author = {Habscheid, Stephan and Hrncal, Christine and Lüssem, Jens and Wieching, Rainer and Carros, Felix and Wulf, Volker},
  year = {2018},
  }