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Ethical Design of a Robot Platform for Disabled Employees: Some Practical Methodological Considerations
Originally published 2021-08-19 · Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/frobt.2021.643160 ↗
AI / system type
Robotic platform for disabled employees with AI and automation design considerations
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Robotic platform for disabled employees with AI and automation design considerations. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings including disabled employees in ethical robot-platform design into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers ethnographic and design-fiction methodological analysis evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is including disabled employees in ethical robot-platform design. Source setting or population: A workplace design scenario involving disabled employees and multiple stakeholders. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Whose voice shapes a workplace technology designed to help disabled colleagues?
This ethnographic and design-fiction methodological analysis examines including disabled employees in ethical robot-platform design. Its TRICK home is Respect, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
A workplace design scenario involving disabled employees and multiple stakeholders
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Whose voice shapes a workplace technology designed to help disabled colleagues?
- What do this study’s design and population — A workplace design scenario involving disabled employees and multiple stakeholders — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering including disabled employees in ethical robot-platform design, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Scenario development identifies ethical and methodological issues rather than proving that a robot improves inclusion or work quality.
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Tommaso Colombino; Danilo Gallo; Shreepriya Shreepriya; Yesook Im; Seijin Cha (2021). Ethical Design of a Robot Platform for Disabled Employees: Some Practical Methodological Considerations Frontiers in Robotics and AI. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.643160
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