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Robot companions and ethics a pragmatical approach of ethical design

Robot companions and ethics a pragmatical approach of ethical design. March 26th 2011, Toulouse Gerard Cornet ROBOTICS and MEDICINE—ROBOTIQUE et MEDECINE TOULOUSE 24-25-26 Mars-March 2011

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Robot companions and ethics a pragmatical approach of ethical design

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  1. Robot companions and ethicsa pragmaticalapproach of ethical design March 26th 2011, Toulouse Gerard Cornet ROBOTICS and MEDICINE—ROBOTIQUE et MEDECINE TOULOUSE 24-25-26 Mars-March 2011 La Manufacture (21, allée de Brienne TOULOUSE)

  2. summary • Robot Companion/medecine: • fromhealthcare to functionalempowerment of end users: assistive robots to support frailedusers in their DL Activities • Questioningethical guidelines for designing robot companion for autonomy • fromprinciples to practice ; laws& provisions adapted or obstacles ? • Lessonsfromtwo Robot companionfundedprojectsstill on, targeting MCI end users • Companionable (FP7call 1 e-inclusion) • Quo Vadis(Tecsan) • Towardsethical robots for augmentedfrailedoldhumans?

  3. Whichkind of companions?Focus on assistivecompanions

  4. Assistive RC for autonomy smart mechatronic interactive systems • To support the frailed end users in Daily life activitiescompensatingfunctionalitiesimpairments to restore autonomy for a betterquality of life of end user’s in their living place and environment : • mobility, cognition, memory…compliance to medicaltreatment security: watch : detection and validateCritical emergency situations, to alert To facilitate social inclusion Communication and fun • To allievate the proxy carers’ burden • The ethicalapproach must consider the effects on relationshipbetween the RC and the end user, and with proxy and Professional carers, to increase objective and subjective wellbeing, individual and social effects • Complement but different of medicine • Development of blurredfrontierswithbioethics?

  5. Fromprinciples to appliedethics for autonomy • Respect of individualfreedomincludingprivacy and dignity versus security: the full consent beingsupposed to give the solution • Assessingbeneficience versus maleficience and risks of robotics actions in the relation with end user • Appliedethics for autonomy and social inclusion must respect and applylaws and rules, but withoutrising up unnecessary obstacles and complexity to research and industrialdevelopment (ICT and Ageing Report to EC 2009)

  6. The appliedethics vision of San Clara University(California) • Utility(+ and – assessment directs & sideeffects) of the services provided • Legal( laws)> ethicalcommitteeadvices • Distributive justice • Common sense(relevance in the context) • Virtue(social value for the person)

  7. Appliedethics: lessonsfromtwo RC fundedprojects: target MCI persons • Companionable FP7 e inclusion project call 1 • Integration of mobile RC and smart home systems • Ethicalprocessaccordinglaw and follow up of rules and recommendations : • Review of national laws applicable in the differents countries involved in implication and participation of end users: • full consent, • protection of personal datas • Assessment of users’needs and priorities • Assement of directs effects and sideeffects • Assessment and minimization of risks • Users test (followingfunctional test to validate scenarios

  8. Amongethical Obstacles to beturn round • Diversity of interpretation of ethicsrules: the projectbeing not a medicalproject, but according the targetethicalcommitteesadvice has been collected • recruitment and Full consent : time consuming, needdetailedexplanation, need for repeatingateach stage of end users’involvment, understanding versus memory gap • Take care that the end user’opinion abouts his or herneeds and prioritiesmaybedifferentfrom the proxy carer’s • Verydifficult to projectthemselves in a worsening future withhigherlevel of impairments • Assessments of functionalities: • falldetection :must use volunteervalidperson to test : ethically not acceptable to askfrailedpersons to fall; • emotion recognition for detection of critical situations face , voice : diversity of expression in the target(culture, risk of depression ;toolsbeingethically acceptable for negativeemotion; common basis for distresswords • Sideeffects:hypothesis not scientificevidence base such as addiction , changes in human relations deszhumanisation warning by experts ;lack of time for appropriation by end users in actuel living conditions • Control of the RC by the end user versus security (watch):level of acceptability of wtach and control to bedefined

  9. Lessons • Quo Vadis mobile robot companion, Security of MCI elderly and distant Cognitive stimulation+ wearabledevice for measure and communication of Vital datas* • Validatealarmfall: analysing data fromThe Emergency Platform • Agenda reminder : simplification • Distant control: freedom of the users • Economicaccessibility: integrationassesment of the range of services provided services • Fromexperimentation in Lab To experimentation in the Patient’home: taking in account the living context

  10. Towardsethical robots • Programmingethicalrules for action To whatextent Can the robot assessbeneficience or maleficienceoccuringwhenunpredictable situations? RobotCompanion are toolsempowering the user that must stayunder control of the user

  11. Ethics as a tool for global quality • Iterativeinvolvment of endsusers • Assessment of the relevance and accessibility of services provided by innovation, by comparison of added value withexisting solution, and acceptability

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