Decisions and values: Engineering design as a pragmatic and sociomaterial negotiation process

摘要

Responsible Ethical Learning with Robotics -REELER -is an interdisciplinary H2020 project funded by the European Commission with 1,998,265 EUR from the 1 st of January, 2017 -31st of December, 2019.Its main objective is to develop the REELER Roadmap for responsible and ethical learning in robotics.The project involves four European partners from the fields of anthropology, learning, robotics, philosophy, and economics, who work closely together in a research-driven collaboration between SSH-RRI and Robotic-ICT communities.Together, they aim to raise awareness of the human potential in robotics development, with special attention to distributed responsibility, ethical and societal issues, collaborative learning, as well as economic and societal impacts.The REELER Roadmap aims at aligning roboticists' visions of a future with robots with empirically-based knowledge of human needs and societal concerns, through a new proximity-based human-machine ethics that takes into account how individuals and communities connect with robot technologies.REELER's comprehensive research methodology includes a design-anthropological approach to onsite studies of roboticists' laboratories and daily work, as well as onsite ethnographic studies and impact studies of present and potential affected stakeholders.The project also includes quantitative research in geographical distribution of patents and an AMB (agent-based model) research approach.Furthermore, the project makes use of novel methodologies to give both robot-designers and affected stakeholders a space for mutual exchange about a robotic future, built around a number of REELER's ethnographic case studies of robots being developed in Europe.These novel methods include experiments with mini-publics, role play, social drama, and also explorations of the established sociodrama approach with professional sociodramatists.REELER aims to include all relevant aspects of this research in the roadmap, which will present ethical guidelines for Human Proximity Levels (HPL) in design work, as well as prescriptions for policy makers and robot-designers for how to include the voices of new types of users and affected stakeholders.The project aims to present an agent-based simulation of the REELER research to be used by roboticists and policymakers.