[iva] [RO-MAN 2025][meetings] E3D: Joint International Workshop on Ethics, Legality, Diversity, and Design in Human-Robot Interaction

[Ana Tanevska]

[apologies for cross-posting]

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We warmly invite you to join us on August 25th for the IEEE RO-MAN 2025 E3D: Joint International Workshop on Ethics, Legality, Diversity, and Design in Human-Robot Interaction!

Final workshop program: <https://sites.google.com/view/roman25e3d> https://sites.google.com/view/roman25e3d/schedule
Workshop time & place: August 25th, 2025, Eindhoven, The Netherlands and online via Zoom
Online attendance info:
Cannot attend RO-MAN 2025, but you would still like to attend our workshop online on August 25th? Please register here by August 23rd EOD: https://forms.gle/h2diDYArHD2eqcabA
The Zoom link will be shared with participants the day before the workshop.

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Workshop aims and scope:


The rising integration of robots across different applications means that a wide audience of people becomes a possible user base. With a wide audience comes a heterogeneous blend of people, each differing in a variety of characteristics (such as age, ethnicity, or gender). At the same time, research in human-robot interaction (HRI) has largely considered homogeneous samples for examining consequences of and prerequisites for ethical HRI. This gap in diverse research findings is accompanied by a lack of comprehensive legal frameworks for interactions with autonomous and AI-enhanced agents, as well as methodological rifts for clustering and sampling diverse audiences for studies.

This workshop attempts to get closer to closing these gaps by fostering an exchange between HRI professionals regarding a variety of topics, including: challenges in acquiring and reporting diverse samples, overcoming biases tied to WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) samples and mitigating discrimination in both research and practice, aligning HRI with ethical guidelines like the ALTAI framework and EU AI Act, exploring privacy, autonomy, trust, and transparency issues and investigating power dynamics, emotional fidelity, and societal biases replicated through robot interactions.

The full-day workshop features keynote talks by industry experts and academic researchers, a presentation of paper submissions, a student methodology workshop, and a diversity panel designed to establish best practices for ethical and inclusive HRI research and practices. Attendees of all robotics-adjacent disciplines are invited to contribute to this workshop by submitting their work for presentation at the workshop (see call for papers for more details) and taking part in the interactive sessions.

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Workshop organizers:

The Joint International Workshop on Ethics, Legality, Diversity, and Design in Human-Robot Interaction (E3D) is a collaboration of four workshops and research groups:

Team divHRI: Researching Diversity and Inclusion in Human-Robot Interaction - Methodological, Technical and Ethical Considerations


  *   Lukas Erle - Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany; lukas.erle at hs-ruhrwest.de
  *   André Helgert - Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany; andre.helgert at hs-ruhrwest.de
  *   Carolin Straßmann - Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany; carolin.strassmann at hs-ruhrwest.de
  *   Sabrina C. Eimler - Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany; sabrina.eimler at hs-ruhrwest.de

Team ETHICA: Ethical Technology for Human Interaction with Collaborative Agents

  *   Ana Tanevska - Uppsala University, Sweden; ana.tanevska at it.uu.se
  *   Pablo Barros - University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; pvab at ecomp.poli.br
  *   Ginevra Castellano - Uppsala University, Sweden; ginevra.castellano.it.uu.se

Team ECSARA: Ethics Challenges in Socially Assistive Robots and Agents: Legality, Value Orientation, and Future Design for HRI

  *   Adriana Tapus - ENSTA-Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris; France; adriana.tapus at ensta-paris.fr
  *   Jim Tørresen - University of Oslo, Norway; jimtoer at ifi.uio.no
  *   Zhegong Shangguan - University of Manchester, UK; zhegong.shangguan at manchester.ac.uk
  *   Toshie Takahashi - Waseda University, Japan; toshie.takahashi at waseda.jp

Team Ethics Issues in Human-Robot Relationships: Bridging Philosophy, Design, and Psychology

  *   Fan Wang - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; f.wang3 at tue.nl
  *   Jiaxin Xu - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; j.xu2 at tue.nl
  *   Giulia Perugia - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; g.perugia at tue.nl
  *   Yuan Feng - Northwestern Polytechnical University, China; y.feng at nwpu.edu.cn
  *   Baisong Liu - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; b.liu2 at tue.nl
  *   Maribel PINO - Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France; maribel.pino at aphp.fr
  *   Laetitia Tanqueray - Lund University, Sweden; laetitia.tanqueray at lth.lu.se



On behalf of the organizers,

Ana Tanevska



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Dr. Ana Tanevska (they/she*)

Postdoctoral Researcher
Uppsala Social Robotics Lab
Department of Information Technology
Uppsala University, Sweden

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