Exploring the Safety, Trust, Psychosocial, Legal, and Economic Impact of Cyber Attacks on Social Robots: What Should People Know and How Can We Mitigate Risks?

The increasing prevalence of interactive, mobile robots in domestic and social spaces requires not only a comprehensive examination of the security challenges inherent in their large-scale deployment, but understanding how we as a community can support safe and successful adoption of robots. This workshop provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders from a range of disciplines to build expertise and networks in safety, trust, psychosocial, legal and economic aspects for the secure deployment of social robots in domestic environments. The end goal of this workshop is to enable the development of methodologies and recommendations to empower people to understand and decide on how their robots are secured, and approaches for raising awareness of the impact of an attack. The workshop will incorporate keynote presentations from leading experts, a series of lightning talks, and a scenario planning activity in which teams of participants use custom-designed prospective scenarios to explore the precursors, processes, contexts and impacts of a breach of security in a robotic system. This will allow a deep-dive into the complexities of establishing and maintaining security and trust in interactive robotic applications, enabling long-term acceptance and adoption of trustworthy, secure, and safe interactive robots.