Abstract
Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience challenges when interacting with caregivers due to their declining control over their musculature. To remedy those challenges, a robot mediator can be used to assist in the relationship between PD patients and their caregivers. In this context, a variety of ethical issues can arise. To overcome one issue in particular, providing therapeutic robots with a robot architecture that can ensure patients’ and caregivers’ dignity is of potential value. In this paper, we describe an intervening ethical governor for a robot that enables it to ethically intervene, both to maintain effective patient-caregiver relationships and prevent the loss of dignity.
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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #IIS 1317214 in collaboration with Profs. Linda Tickle-Degnen and Matthias Scheutz at Tufts University.
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Shim, J., Arkin, R.C. (2017). An Intervening Ethical Governor for a Robot Mediator in Patient-Caregiver Relationships. In: Aldinhas Ferreira, M., Silva Sequeira, J., Tokhi, M., E. Kadar, E., Virk, G. (eds) A World with Robots. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46667-5_6
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