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Data Recording for Responsible Robotics

Author(s)
Jon Skerlj, Maximilian Braun, Sophia Witz, Svenja Breuer, Marieke Bak, Sebastian Scholz, Abdeldjallil Naceri, Ruth Müller, Sami Haddadin, Iris Eisenberger
Abstract

The last decades have seen continuous attempts to advance the application of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) research in several areas such as healthcare environments. However, using (semi)autonomous robots in healthcare also poses risks that need to be addressed throughout the systems' lifecycle. In this work, we present our version of a data recorder, as the output of an interdisciplinary research collaboration that addresses relevant social, ethical, legal, and technical aspects of advanced robotics in healthcare. We use social science insights from interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with relevant stakeholders as well as ethical and legal analyses to derive and implement four technical requirements for a data recorder to enhance accountability and transparency of a service humanoid robot, GARMI, assisting in healthcare. We present a tool to log and visualize data from human-robot interactions as a means of including non-expert users and other relevant stakeholders in accountability relationships, which also helps us to enhance the transparency of advanced robotics in general and to fulfill the examined requirements of the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Organisation(s)
Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law
External organisation(s)
Technische Universität München, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Pages
103-109
No. of pages
7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187414
Publication date
2023
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
505002 Data protection, 202035 Robotics, 505010 Medical law
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Science Applications
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/cf3d1900-e5b9-4f40-9907-fd4e03696ca2