The Cooperative Board Game THREE. A Test Field for Experimenting with Moral Dilemmas of Human-Robot Interaction

• Authors: Paweł Łupkowski , Aleksandra Wasielewska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper describes the cooperative board game entitled THREE. The game is inspired by the Three Laws of Robotics. We show how this game may be used as an environment for exploring the ethical problems arising from human-robot interaction. We present the idea behind the game, discuss its cooperativeness and analyze the dilemmas encountered by players during the gameplay. We also present and discuss the results of the game evaluation.

Keywords

EN

cooperative games; board games; human-robot interaction; belief in humannature; uniqueness; androids; robots; moral agents; moral patients

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 82-97

Dates

published

2019-10-10

Contributors

author

Paweł Łupkowski

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5335-2988

author

Aleksandra Wasielewska

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2019.2.8