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Designing Robots for Care: Care Centered Value-Sensitive Design
The prospective robots in healthcare intended to be included within the conclave of the nurse-patient relationshipâwhat I refer to as care robotsârequire rigorous ethical reflection to ensure their design and introduction do not impede the promotion of values and the dignity of patients at such a vulnerable and sensitive time in their lives. The ethical evaluation of care robots requires insight into the values at stake in the healthcare tradition. Whatâs more, given the stage of their development and lack of standards provided by the International Organization for Standardization to guide their development, ethics ought to be included into the design process of such robots. The manner in which this may be accomplished, as presented here, uses the blueprint of the Value-sensitive design approach as a means for creating a framework tailored to care contexts. Using care values as the foundational values to be integrated into a technology and using the elements in care, from the care ethics perspective, as the normative criteria, the resulting approach may be referred to as care centered value-sensitive design. The framework proposed here allows for the ethical evaluation of care robots both retrospectively and prospectively. By evaluating care robots in this way, we may ultimately ask what kind of care we, as a society, want to provide in the futur
Robots and Privacy in Japanese, Thai and Chinese Cultures. \ud Discussions on Robots and Privacy as Topics of Intercultural Information Ethics in âFar Eastâ
In this paper, I will analyze âcultural meanings and valuesâ associated with some of the important IIE(intercultural information ethics) topics in âFar East, âi.e. âhuman and robot interaction(HRI)â and âprivacy.â By focusing on these relatively newly emerging topics in âFar East,â I will attempt to make the cultural Ba (locus/place where different\ud
meanings of things, events, peopleâs experiences come together; or frameworks for understanding meanings of phenomena and events) visible through analysis of research data done in Japan, Thailand and China in the past several years. The research data shown in this paper suggest that we canât understand peopleâs attitudes toward robots and privacy in âFar Eastâ without taking into consideration peopleâs broader views on âwhat is a good life?â and âwhat is a virtuous life?
Beyond Speculative Robot Ethics
In this article we develop a dialogue model for robot technology experts and designated users to discuss visions on the future of robotics in long-term care. Our vision assessment study aims for more distinguished and more informed visions on future robots. Surprisingly, our experiment also lead to some promising co-designed robot concepts in which jointly articulated moral guidelines are embedded. With our model we think to have designed an interesting response on a recent call for a less speculative ethics of technology by encouraging discussions about the quality of positive and negative visions on the future of robotics.
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