Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience challenges when interacting with caregivers due to their declining control over their musculature. To remedy those challenges, a robot mediator can be used to assist in the relationship between PD patients and their caregivers. In this context, a variety of ethical issues can arise. To overcome one issue in particular, providing therapeutic robots with a robot architecture that can ensure patients’ and caregivers’ dignity is of potential value. In this paper, we describe an intervening ethical governor for a robot that enables it to ethically intervene, both to maintain effective patient-caregiver relationships and prevent the loss of dignity.
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Shim, J., & Arkin, R. C. (2017). An intervening ethical governor for a robot mediator in patient-caregiver relationships. In Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering (Vol. 84, pp. 77–91). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46667-5_6
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