Workshop Proposals

Robots as Social Actors: Evaluating Social Acceptance and Societal Impact of Robotic Agents

This workshop will discuss possible methodological approaches for evaluating social acceptance and societal impact of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) with a special focus on collaborative working environments. Based also on the experiences gained in the project ROBOT@CWE - Advanced robotic systems in future collaborative working environments, the workshop will more specifically focus on existing evaluation techniques regarding human robot collaboration. Pros and cons of existing evaluation methods should be discussed to develop new variations and advancements for assessing social acceptance and societal impact of robotic agents.

Societal Impact: How Socially Accepted Robots Can be Integrated in our Society

This workshop will discuss possible methodological approaches to evaluate social acceptance and societal impact of Human- Robot Interaction (HRI) with a special focus on collabora- tion with robots. This workshop will be held as a follow up to the workshop \Robots as Social Actors: Evaluating Social Acceptance and Societal Impact of Robotic Agents, which was held during IEEE Ro-Man 2008. This time we will intensify the focus on how social acceptance measure- ment approaches can give insights on societal impact and on scenarios of future societies where robots will play an in- tegral part. Pros and cons of existing evaluation methods should be discussed to develop new variations and advance- ments for assessing social acceptance and societal impact of robotic agents \look and feel".