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Does a Loss of Social Credibility Impact Robot Safety

Authors:
Catherine Menon
Patrick Holthaus

Keywords: Human-robot interaction, social credibility, robot safety

Abstract:
This position paper discusses the safety-related functions performed by assistive robots and explores the relationship between trust and effective safety risk mitigation. We identify a measure of the robot’s social effectiveness, termed social credibility, and present a discussion of how social credibility may be gained and lost. This paper’s contribution is the identification of a link between social credibility and safety-related performance. Accordingly, we draw on analyses of existing systems to demonstrate how an assistive robot’s safety-critical functionality can be impaired by a loss of social credibility. In addition, we present a discussion of some of the consequences of prioritising either safety-related functionality or social engagement. We propose the identification of a mixed-criticality scheduling algorithm in order to maximise both safety-related performance and social engagement.

Pages: 18 to 24

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: March 24, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3700

ISBN: 978-1-61208-698-9

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from March 24, 2019 to March 28, 2019