Fairness and Transparency in Human-Robot Interaction

As robots become more ubiquitous across human spaces, it is becoming increasingly relevant for researchers to ask the question, “how can we ensure that we are designing robots to be sufficiently equipped to treat people fairly?”. This workshop brings together researchers across the fields of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), fairness in machine learning, design, and transparency in AI to shed light on the relevant methodological challenges surrounding issues of fairness and transparency in HRI. In our workshop, we will attempt to identify synergies between these various fields. In particular, we will focus on how HRI can leverage these existing rich body of work to guide the formalization of fairness metrics and methodologies. Another goal of the workshop is to foster a community of interdisciplinary researchers to encourage collaboration. The complexity in defining fairness lies in its context sensitive nature, as such we look to the influx of definitions from the field of fairness in artificial intelligence, design, and organizational psychology to derive a set of definitions that could serve as guidelines for researchers in HRI.