Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Governance for Social Robots (SORO)

JURIX 2022
Saarbrücken, Germany
December 14th, 2022

PROGRAM

Introduction

14:00-14:10

Workshop Introduction
Yueh-Hsuan Weng (Tohoku University)

Session 1 (14:10-15:30)

14:10-14:40

I’m Sorry I’m not Human” - Apologies and the Creation of Trust in Care Robotics
Burkhard Schafer (The University of Edinburgh)

Ethics and Social Robots: A Universal Design Perspective [Online]
Diana Saplacan (University of Oslo)

14:40-15:10

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

Session 2 (15:30-16:30)

From Object to Ecology: Towards an Ecocentric Approach to Regulating Robots [Online]

Joshua C. Gellers (University of North Florida)

15:30-16:00

Using Legal Ontology in Data Governance for Social Robots

Enrico Francesconi (IGSG-CNR) and Yueh-Hsuan Weng (Tohoku University)

16:00-16:30

Speakers

Burkhard Schafer

Faculty of Law, The University of Edinburgh

Prof Burkhard Schafer is Professor of Computational Legal Theory at Edinburgh Law School. He is currently Director of the SCRIPT Centre in IT and IP law, and co-director and co-founder of the Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning.

His interest is the intersection of law and technology - both from the perspective of legal tech and legal KR, and from the perspective of regulation of technology in all of its aspects. He is member of the Data Ethics Group of the Turing Institute and of the AI4People expert committee at Atomium in Brussels. HIs current research interest is in particular the question of affective computing and computational creativity when allied to legal AI.

Diana Saplacan

Department of Informatics
University of Oslo, Norway

Diana Saplacan is a researcher at the University of Oslo, at the Department of Informatics, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Research Group. She currently works in Vulnerability in Robot Society (VIROS) research project. She received her Ph.D. degree (2020) from the University of Oslo. Her Ph.D. degree is interdisciplinary within Design of Information Systems, at the cross of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) fields, with Universal Design (UD) knitting these fields. She previously worked as a Lecturer in Computer Science at Kristianstad University, Sweden (2013-2016/2020). Her current interests include Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Robot cooperation, ethics regarded through Universal Design principles, inclusion, and accessibility.

Joshua C. Gellers

Department of Political Science and Public Administration

University of North Florida

Joshua C. Gellers, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida, Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, and Core Team Member of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment. A former Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka.

His research focuses on environmental politics, human rights, and technology. Josh's work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and cited in several UN reports. He is the author of The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge 2017) and Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (Routledge 2020).

Enrico Francesconi

IGSG-CNR and University of Florence

Enrico Francesconi is a Research Director at IGSG-CNR, the Institute for Legal Informatics and Judicial Studies of the National Research Council of Italy and, currently, he is a Policy Officer of the European Parliament. His main research interests include Semantic Web technologies for the legal domain, legal ontologies and knowledge representation, AI techniques for legal document classification and knowledge extraction, e-Government, e-Participation, semantic models for the document collections of the EU. He has been Policy Officer of the European Commission - DG Publications Office, member of the Italian and European working groups defining XML and URI standards for legal documents and representative of the Italian Ministry of Justice in the e-Law Working Group of the Council of the European Union.
He is contract professor of Information Retrieval and Semantic Web Technologies at the Computer Science Faculty of the University of Florence.

Yueh-Hsuan Weng

FRIS, Tohoku University

Yueh-Hsuan Weng is an Assistant Professor at FRIS, Tohoku University and a Visiting Scientist at RIKEN-AIP in Tokyo. He has been appointed as Tohoku University Prominent Research Fellow (2021), Stanford Law School's TTLF Fellow (2018-2021), Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong (2018), Peking University's Yahoo! Research Fellow (2010-2014). He received his Ph.D. in Law from Peking University and his M.S. in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University. He is strongly interested in interdisciplinary studies, especially in issues concerning the interface between Artificial Intelligence and Law, including Robot Law, Social Robotics, and Legal Informatics. During his Ph.D. studies, he has founded ROBOLAW.ASIA and CHINA-LII, which are China’s first initiatives in AI Law and Free Access to Law.