Tutorial UMAP 2022 – 4-7 July

Atsushi Nakazawa

Dept. of Intelligence Science and Technology

Graduate School of Informatics

Kyoto University, Japan

Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization (ECUMAP)

Jim Torresen
 Department of Informatics
 University of Oslo,
Norway
 
jimtoer@ifi.uio.no

 

 


ABSTRACT – A brief description of the tutorial

Ethical considerations are getting increased attention with regards to providing responsible personalization for robots and autonomous systems. This is partly as a result of the currently limited deployment of such systems in human support and interaction settings. There are many different ethical considerations, and it is important to identify those relevant to one’s own work within user modeling and personalization. The tutorial will give an overview of the most commonly expressed ethical challenges and ways being undertaken to reduce their impact using the findings in an earlier undertaken review supplemented with recent work and initiatives. The includes the identified challenges in a “Statement on research ethics in artificial intelligence”.

The tutorial will exemplify the challenges related to privacy, security and safety through several examples from own and others’ work. With tutorial presenters from two different continents (Asia and Europe), the tutorial will cover the views on ethical assessment across countries and cultures. Thus, it will illustrate to what extent perspectives are similar and what are regarded as the most important ethical aspects in the two countries.

The tutorial will also contain interactive parts where the participants express and discuss their own views on ethical considerations through polls and by providing comments and questions as a part of the tutorial session.

KEYWORDS

Ethics, Robotics, Autonomous systems, Privacy, Security and Safety

 

Outline of the tutorial structure

The main content of the tutorial will be a presentation of the most commonly expressed ethical challenges. This will be illustrated by examples from own and others´ work. The tutorial will potentially also contain some parts where participants discuss ethical challenges in small groups. Further, opinions within the audience will be collected through using the Kahoot! voting tool (responding using your smartphone to answer multiple-choice quizzes).

 

Outline:

1.      Introduction and motivation

2.      Ethical challenges and considerations

3.      How to address ethical considerations in research including examples

4.      Ethical considerations in own research at Kyoto University and University of Oslo

5.      Future opportunities in ethics-related research

 

Learning objectives of the tutorial: 

·       Getting an overview of the most commonly expressed ethical considerations with regards to adaptive systems and robots.

·       Get insight into how ethics is relevant within the research and development of autonomous systems.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work is partially supported by The Research Council of Norway as a part of the INTROducing Mental health through Adaptive Technology (INTROMAT) project under grant agreement 259293, Collaboration on Intelligent Machines (COINMAC) project, under grant agreement 309869, Vulnerability in the Robot Society (VIROS) under grant agreement 288285, Predictive and Intuitive Robot Companion (PIRC) under grant agreement 312333 and through its Centres of Excellence scheme, RITMO with project No. 262762.

Conference Name:ACM Woodstock conference

Conference Short Name:WOODSTOCK’18

Conference Location:El Paso, Texas USA

ISBN:978-1-4503-0000-0/18/06

Year:2018

Date:June

Copyright Year:2018

Copyright Statement:rightsretained

DOI:10.1145/1234567890

RRH: F. Surname et al.

Price:$15.00