Data Protection in Human-Robot Interaction: A Focus on Healthcare Robots

2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13579
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: 翁 岳暄 東北大学, 学際科学フロンティア研究所, 助教 (40810891)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: Data Protection / Human-Robot Interaction / Robot Law / Privacy by Design / AI Ethics

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In the second year, I focus on designing HRI experiments for the legal validation of GDPR on the three variables from the theoretical review. The purpose is to analyze if any legal gaps emerge when it is applied to healthcare robots. A laboratory experiment was designed to test our research questions. We developed three novel scenarios to test the subjective as well as objective criteria to evaluate the effect of different interaction styles of the NAO humanoid robot. Our results show that a robot’s embodiment will have an influence on current GDPR. The results have been published as “HRI for Legal Validation: On Embodiment and Data Protection” at the IEEE RO-MAN. In addition, the theoretical study has been published as a book chapter at the Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms..

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Stanford Law School(米国)
  • Country Name: U.S.A.
  • Counterpart Institution: Stanford Law School
• [Int'l Joint Research] Academia Sinica(その他の国・地域)
  • Country Name: その他の国・地域
  • Counterpart Institution: Academia Sinica
• [Journal Article] Embodiment and Algorithms for Human-Robot Interaction (2020)
  • Author(s): Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Chih-Hsing Ho
  • Journal Title: The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms Volume: n/a Pages: 736-756
  • DOI: 10.1017/9781108680844.035
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] HRI for Legal Validation: On Embodiment and Data Protection (2020)
  • Author(s): Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Svetlana Gulyaeva, Jana Winter, Andrei Slavescu, Yasuhisa Hirata
  • Organizer: The 29th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Virtual Conference, August 31st to September 4th
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] How to Realize AI Transparency for Embodied Intelligent Systems? (2020)
  • Author(s): Yueh-Hsuan Weng
  • Organizer: The 23rd International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS 2020), University of Salzburg, Austria, February
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] AI Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2020)
  • Author(s): Yueh-Hsuan Weng
  • Organizer: The 8th RIEC International Symposium on Brain Functions and Brain Computer (BFBC), Tohoku University, Sendai, February 14th
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Designed-centered AI Governance (2020)
  • Author(s): Yueh-Hsuan Weng
  • Organizer: The 9th RIEC International Symposium on Brain Functions and Brain Computer (BFBC), Virtual Conference (JNNS2020 Satellite Symposium), December 5th
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited