Abstract
We present an integration of rational moral reasoning with emotional intelligence. The moral reasoning system alone could not simulate the different human reactions to the Trolley dilemma and the Footbridge dilemma. However, the combined system can simulate these human moral decision making processes. The introduction of affect in rational ethics is important when robots communicate with humans in a practical context that includes moral relations and decisions. Moreover, the combination of ratio and affect may be useful for applications in which human moral decision making behavior is simulated, for example, when agent systems or robots provide healthcare support.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Anderson, M., Anderson, S., Armen, C.: Toward Machine Ethics: Implementing Two Action-Based Ethical Theories. In: Machine Ethics: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, CA (2005)
Banks, M.R., Willoughby, L.M., Banks, W.A.: Animal-Assisted Therapy and Loneliness in Nursing Homes - Use of Robotic versus Living Dogs. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 9, 173–177 (2008)
Beauchamp, T.L., Childress, J.F.: Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford University Press, New York (2001)
Bosse, T., Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F., Treur, J.: Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Virtual Stories. In: Pelachaud, C., Martin, J.C., Andre, E., Chollet, G., Karpouzis, K., Pele, D. (eds.) IVA 2007. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 4722, pp. 339–347. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Bosse, T., Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F.: Robot’s Experience of Another Robot: Simulation. In: Sloutsky, V., Love, B.C., McRae, K. (eds.) CogSci 2008, pp. 2498–2503 (2008)
Bosse, T., Gratch, J., Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F.: Comparing Three Computational Models of Affect. In: Demazeau, Y., Dignum, F., Corchado, J.M., Pérez, J.B., et al. (eds.) Advances in PAAMS. AISC, vol. 70, pp. 175–184. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
DePaulo, B.M., Kashy, D.A., Kirkendol, S.E., Wyer, M.M., Ep-stein, J.A.: Lying in Everyday Life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 70(5), 979–995 (1996)
Greene, J.D., Sommerville, R.B., Nystrom, L.E., Darley, J.M., Cohen, J.D.: An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment. Science 293(5537), 2105–2108 (2001), doi:10.1126/science.1062872
Haidt, J.: The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail - A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment. Psychological Review 108(4), 814–834 (2001)
Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F.: Coppélius’ Concoction: Similarity and Complementarity Among Three Affect-related Agent Models. Cognitive Systems Research Journal, 33–49 (2012)
Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F.: When the User is Instrument to Robot Goals. In: 7th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2008), pp. 296–301 (2008)
Konijn, E.A., Hoorn, J.F.: Some Like It Bad. Testing a Model for Perceiving and Experiencing Fictional Characters. Media Psychology 7(2), 107–144 (2005)
Marsella, S., Gratch, J.: EMA: A Model of Emotional Dynamics. Cognitive Systems Research 10(1), 70–90 (2009)
Noddings, N.: Caring – A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. University of Calfiornia Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles (1984)
Ohnsorge, K., Widdershoven, G.A.M.: Monological versus Dialogical Consciousness – Two Epistemological Views on the Use of Theory in Clinical Ethical Practice. Bioethics 25(7), 361–369 (2011)
Pantazidou, M., Nair, I.: Ethic of Care: Guiding Principles for Engineering Teaching & Practice. Journal of Engineering Education 88(2), 205–212 (1999)
Picard, R.: Affective Computing. MIT Press, Cambridge (1997)
Pontier, M.A.: Virtual Agents for Human Communication - Emotion Regulation and Involvement-Distance Trade-Offs in Embodied Conversational Agents and Robots. Doctoral dissertation, VU University, Amsterdam (2011)
Pontier, M.A., Hoorn, J.F.: Toward Machines that Behave Ethically Better than Humans Do. In: Proceedings of the 34th International Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012 (in press, 2012)
Robins, B., Dautenhahn, K., Boekhorst, R.T., Billard, A.: Robotic Assistants in Therapy and Education of Children with Autism: Can a Small Humanoid Robot Help Encourage Social Interaction Skills? Journal of Universal Access in the Information Society 4, 105–120 (2005)
Van Vugt, H.C., Hoorn, J.F., Konijn, E.A.: Interactive Engagement with Embodied Agents: An Empirically Validated Framework. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 20(2-3), 195–204 (2009)
Van Wynsberghe, A.: Designing Robots for Care; Care Centered Value-Sensitive Design. Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics (in press, 2012)
Wada, K., Shibata, T.: Social Effects of Robot Therapy in a Care House. JACIII 13, 386–392 (2009)
WHO.: Health topics: Ageing (2010), http://www.who.int/topics/ageing/en/
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Pontier, M.A., Widdershoven, G., Hoorn, J.F. (2012). Moral Coppélia - Combining Ratio with Affect in Ethical Reasoning. In: Pavón, J., Duque-Méndez, N.D., Fuentes-Fernández, R. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2012. IBERAMIA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7637. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34654-5_45
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34654-5_45
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-34653-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-34654-5
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)