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DESCRIPTION:Come see CS tenure-track candidate Dr. Blake Jackson discuss how robots should communicate now that they are becoming more social and moral beings!\n\nThursday • 12/15/22 • 3:00 - 4:00 PM\nTutt Science Center 229\n\nRated PG-13 (considerable undergraduate CS experience recommended).\n\nFull abstract:\nAs robots with social behaviors proliferate into a widening variety of contexts and roles\, it is clear that we have a lot to learn about how humans expect (and prefer) these robots to act\, how humans perceive different robot behaviors and judge or sanction robot misbehaviors\, and how robots should fit into\, shape\, and be shaped by social structures and norms. This talk presents several studies on human-robot interaction (HRI) that focus on enabling robots to communicate effectively and appropriately through natural language in morally sensitive contexts. The goal of this talk is to give you a taste of the breadth of interdisciplinary research questions and methods that typifies HRI research\, from the purely philosophical to human subjects experimentation to algorithm development and evaluation.\n\nI'll begin by examining the concept of social agency and explaining a new theory of social agency specifically for robots and HRI. One implication of robots' potential ontological status as social agents is the capacity for significant normative influence\, and I'll examine this influence in the context of clarification dialogues and command rejections. I'll show some problems with the previous status quo in clarification request generation in morally fraught contexts and explain how I fixed these problems. I'll also show evidence that\, when robots reject immoral commands\, their rejections should be phrased with a degree of politeness proportional to the severity of the norm violation motivating the command rejection. Given the importance of gender in performing and perceiving politeness\, I'll then reexamine these results with specific attention to human gender and robot gender presentation. I'll also present part of a cross-cultural study on how female presenting social robots might respond to gendered verbal abuse from humans without propagating harmful sexist stereotypes or damaging robot credibility. Finally\, I'll show how integrating a norm-aware task planner and a context recognition module into our robot cognitive architecture allows for better moral reasoning and moral communication\, and discuss some of my ongoing work on how robots can shape human mental models of themselves by introducing themselves in different ways.\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/5765
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SUMMARY:Talk: Agency and Influence - Moral Communication for Social Robots!
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