[RO-MAN 2025][meetings] E3D: Joint International Workshop on Ethics, Legality, Diversity, and Design in Human-Robot Interaction

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We warmly invite you to join us on August 25th for the IEEE RO-MAN 2025 E3D: Joint International Workshop on Ethics, Legality, Diversity, and Design in Human-Robot Interaction!

Final workshop program: https://sites.google.com/view/roman25e3d/schedule

Workshop time & place: August 25th, 2025, Eindhoven, The Netherlands and online via Zoom

Online attendance info:

Cannot attend RO-MAN 2025, but you would still like to attend our workshop online on August 25th? Please register here by August 23rd EOD: https://forms.gle/h2diDYArHD2eqcabA 

The Zoom link will be shared with participants the day before the workshop.

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Workshop aims and scope:

 

The rising integration of robots across different applications means that a wide audience of people becomes a possible user base. With a wide audience comes a heterogeneous blend of people, each differing in a variety of characteristics (such as age, ethnicity, or gender). At the same time, research in human-robot interaction (HRI) has largely considered homogeneous samples for examining consequences of and prerequisites for ethical HRI. This gap in diverse research findings is accompanied by a lack of comprehensive legal frameworks for interactions with autonomous and AI-enhanced agents, as well as methodological rifts for clustering and sampling diverse audiences for studies.

This workshop attempts to get closer to closing these gaps by fostering an exchange between HRI professionals regarding a variety of topics, including: challenges in acquiring and reporting diverse samples, overcoming biases tied to WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) samples and mitigating discrimination in both research and practice, aligning HRI with ethical guidelines like the ALTAI framework and EU AI Act, exploring privacy, autonomy, trust, and transparency issues and investigating power dynamics, emotional fidelity, and societal biases replicated through robot interactions. 

The full-day workshop features keynote talks by industry experts and academic researchers, a presentation of paper submissions, a student methodology workshop, and a diversity panel designed to establish best practices for ethical and inclusive HRI research and practices. Attendees of all robotics-adjacent disciplines are invited to contribute to this workshop by submitting their work for presentation at the workshop (see call for papers for more details) and taking part in the interactive sessions. 

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Workshop organizers:

The Joint International Workshop on Ethics, Legality, Diversity, and Design in Human-Robot Interaction (E3D) is a collaboration of four workshops and research groups:

Team divHRI: Researching Diversity and Inclusion in Human-Robot Interaction - Methodological, Technical and Ethical Considerations

• Lukas Erle - Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany; lukas...@hs-ruhrwest.de
• André Helgert - Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany; andre....@hs-ruhrwest.de
• Carolin Straßmann - Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany; carolin.s...@hs-ruhrwest.de
• Sabrina C. Eimler - Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany; sabrina...@hs-ruhrwest.de

Team ETHICA: Ethical Technology for Human Interaction with Collaborative Agents

• Ana Tanevska - Uppsala University, Sweden; ana.ta...@it.uu.se
• Pablo Barros - University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; pv...@ecomp.poli.br
• Ginevra Castellano - Uppsala University, Sweden; ginevra.castellano.it.uu.se

Team ECSARA: Ethics Challenges in Socially Assistive Robots and Agents: Legality, Value Orientation, and Future Design for HRI

• Adriana Tapus - ENSTA-Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris; France; adrian...@ensta-paris.fr
• Jim Tørresen - University of Oslo, Norway; jim...@ifi.uio.no
• Zhegong Shangguan - University of Manchester, UK; zhegong....@manchester.ac.uk
• Toshie Takahashi - Waseda University, Japan; toshie.t...@waseda.jp

Team Ethics Issues in Human-Robot Relationships: Bridging Philosophy, Design, and Psychology

• Fan Wang - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; f.w...@tue.nl
• Jiaxin Xu - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; j....@tue.nl
• Giulia Perugia - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; g.pe...@tue.nl
• Yuan Feng - Northwestern Polytechnical University, China; y.f...@nwpu.edu.cn
• Baisong Liu - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; b.l...@tue.nl
• Maribel PINO - Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France; maribe...@aphp.fr
• Laetitia Tanqueray - Lund University, Sweden; laetitia....@lth.lu.se

 

On behalf of the organizers,

Ana Tanevska

 

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Dr. Ana Tanevska (they/she*)

Postdoctoral Researcher
Uppsala Social Robotics Lab

Department of Information Technology

Uppsala University, Sweden

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