Co-Designing Child-Robot Interactions.

This workshop at Robophilosophy 2016 will explore approaches for designing robots for children that incorporate the needs and preferences of children, themselves. An interdisciplinary panel of child-robot interaction (CRI) researchers will introduce workshop participants to projects in Denmark, Russia and the United States of America that have used differing approaches for collecting children's attitudes and ideas about robots, including speculative co-design, quantitative survey-scales, linguistic analysis, and long-term research studies in educational contexts. Workshop participants will also engage in a group, roboethics imaginative exercise with the International Archive of Children's Robot Designs housed at the Center for Children's Speculative Design (a concurrent exhibition on display at Robophilosophy 2016). The published outcomes of this workshop will inform an evolving draft of recommendations and responsible strategies to be shared with scholars, robotics industry thought leaders and international policy makers concerned with the ethical implications of social robots designed to specifically target and impact the lives of children worldwide.