An Integrated Approach to Context-Sensitive Moral Cognition in Robot Cognitive Architectures

Ryan Blake Jackson,Sihui Li,Santosh Balajee Banisetty,Sriram Siva,Hao Zhang,Neil Dantam,Tom Williams,Ryan Blake Jackson,Sihui Li,Santosh Balajee Banisetty,Sriram Siva,Hao Zhang,Neil Dantam,Tom Williams

Acceptance of social robots in human-robot collaborative environments depends on the robots’ sensitivity to human moral and social norms. Robot behavior that violates norms may decrease trust and lead human interactants to blame the robot and view it negatively. Hence, for long-term acceptance, social robots need to detect possible norm violations in their action plans and refuse to perform such p...