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Resilient strategies for socially compliant autonomous assistive dressing robots

Resilient strategies for socially compliant autonomous assistive dressing robots
Resilient strategies for socially compliant autonomous assistive dressing robots
Developing resilient autonomous systems requires an interdisciplinary approach that can understand performance variability and respond to critical events when they occur. Resilience within autonomous systems must also account for social norms as well as broader ethical and legal considerations. Within this paper we outline the importance of embedding Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic and Cultural (SLEEC) constraints within the development of future autonomous systems. A novel methodological approach is presented that combines Human Factors methods with Computer Science techniques to generate the environmental and situational requirements in combination with a computer rule-based requirements language. This approach also provides a possible structure for capturing contextual and situational information from key stakeholders in the development of autonomous systems. This structure will enable engagement with the stakeholders with respect to key elements identified from this interdisciplinary approach in a responsible way to ensure that future autonomous systems are user centred. The approach is domain independent, but it is applied here to the case of an autonomous assistive dressing robot that aids a user in a dressing task, with a specific critical event that requires a SLEEC resilient response.
Assistive Dressing Robot, Autonomous Systems, Human Factors, Requirements Engineering, Resillience, Social Legal Ethical Empathy Culture Constraints, Strategy Analaysis Diagram, Social Legal Ethical Empathy Culture constraints, Strategy Analysis Diagram, Resilience
Parnell, Katie
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Merriman, Siobhan
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Yaman, Sinem Getir
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Plant, Katherine
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Calinescu, Radu
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Plant, Katherine
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Calinescu, Radu
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Parnell, Katie, Merriman, Siobhan, Yaman, Sinem Getir, Plant, Katherine and Calinescu, Radu (2023) Resilient strategies for socially compliant autonomous assistive dressing robots. TAS 2023, , Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 11 - 12 Jul 2023. 9 pp . (doi:10.1145/3597512.3599711).

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Developing resilient autonomous systems requires an interdisciplinary approach that can understand performance variability and respond to critical events when they occur. Resilience within autonomous systems must also account for social norms as well as broader ethical and legal considerations. Within this paper we outline the importance of embedding Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic and Cultural (SLEEC) constraints within the development of future autonomous systems. A novel methodological approach is presented that combines Human Factors methods with Computer Science techniques to generate the environmental and situational requirements in combination with a computer rule-based requirements language. This approach also provides a possible structure for capturing contextual and situational information from key stakeholders in the development of autonomous systems. This structure will enable engagement with the stakeholders with respect to key elements identified from this interdisciplinary approach in a responsible way to ensure that future autonomous systems are user centred. The approach is domain independent, but it is applied here to the case of an autonomous assistive dressing robot that aids a user in a dressing task, with a specific critical event that requires a SLEEC resilient response.

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Accepted/In Press date: 13 June 2023
Published date: 11 July 2023
Additional Information: Funding Information: This work was funded by the Assuring Autonomy International Programme, and the UKRI project EP/V026747/1 ‘Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Resilience’. We would also like to thank our collaborators at the University of Sheffield for their insights into the autonomous dressing robot. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 ACM.
Venue - Dates: TAS 2023, , Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2023-07-11 - 2023-07-12
Keywords: Assistive Dressing Robot, Autonomous Systems, Human Factors, Requirements Engineering, Resillience, Social Legal Ethical Empathy Culture Constraints, Strategy Analaysis Diagram, Social Legal Ethical Empathy Culture constraints, Strategy Analysis Diagram, Resilience

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Local EPrints ID: 478654
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/478654
PURE UUID: ff34e082-d2b3-494a-b8f0-dd980117dfbf
ORCID for Katie Parnell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5962-4892
ORCID for Siobhan Merriman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0519-687X
ORCID for Katherine Plant: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4532-2818

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Date deposited: 06 Jul 2023 16:46
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:16

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Author: Katie Parnell ORCID iD
Author: Siobhan Merriman ORCID iD
Author: Sinem Getir Yaman
Author: Katherine Plant ORCID iD
Author: Radu Calinescu

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