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? [Abstract]

Morgan, Phillip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5672-0758, Herath, Damith, Caleb-Solly, Praminda, Studley, Matthew, Williams, Elizabeth, Hu, Aurora An-Lin, Sandoval, Eduardo B., Jayasuriya, Maleen, Wang, Min and Busby Grant, Janie 2026. 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? [Abstract]. HRI Companion '26: Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction , pp. 1414-1416. 10.1145/3776734.3788837

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Abstract

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 disci- plines 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 recommenda- tions to empower people to understand and decide on how their robots (and/or robots they are using) 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 ex- plore 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, from the broad frame of social, personal and legal capability, enabling long-term acceptance and adoption of trustworthy, secure, and safe interactive robots.

Item Type:	Short Communication
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Additional Information:	HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Edinburgh, UK, 16-19 March 2026
Publisher:	ACM
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 March 2026
Last Modified:	23 Mar 2026 11:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/185945

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