Privacy protection, control of information, and privacy-enhancing technologies
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Ethics and Information Technology
Human values, ethics, and design
The human-computer interaction handbook
IEEE Intelligent Systems
An Approach to Computing Ethics
IEEE Intelligent Systems
In the hands of machines? The future of aged care
Minds and Machines
Artificial intelligence and natural magic
Artificial Intelligence Review
Spoken language interaction with model uncertainty: an adaptive human-robot interaction system
Connection Science - Language and Robots
Assistive robotics and an ecology of elders living independently in their homes
Human-Computer Interaction
Mobile human-robot teaming with environmental tolerance
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Beyond speculative ethics in HRI?: ethical considerations and the relation to empirical data
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
The effect of monitoring by cameras and robots on the privacy enhancing behaviors of older adults
HRI '12 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Homewrecker 2.0: an exploration of liability for heart balm torts involving AI humanoid consorts
ICSR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Social Robotics
Ethics and Information Technology
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The growing proportion of elderly people in society, together with recent advances in robotics, makes the use of robots in elder care increasingly likely. We outline developments in the areas of robot applications for assisting the elderly and their carers, for monitoring their health and safety, and for providing them with companionship. Despite the possible benefits, we raise and discuss six main ethical concerns associated with: (1) the potential reduction in the amount of human contact; (2) an increase in the feelings of objectification and loss of control; (3) a loss of privacy; (4) a loss of personal liberty; (5) deception and infantilisation; (6) the circumstances in which elderly people should be allowed to control robots. We conclude by balancing the care benefits against the ethical costs. If introduced with foresight and careful guidelines, robots and robotic technology could improve the lives of the elderly, reducing their dependence, and creating more opportunities for social interaction