Design Justice for Robot Design and Policy Making

Abstract

Technology, such as robots, can entrench existing inequities and create new ones. Leveraging design justice, par-ticipatory design, and design fictions, we propose new ways for designing robots and policies around social robots to incorporate more voices and values into design processes. This work critically examines design justice in the context of human-robot interaction (HRI) and suggests a framework to engage multiple stakeholders in participatory design of robots and policies grounded in design justice. Overall, we promote discussion around how we can design more equitable robot technology design and policy design in HRI.