IAS Workshops　#007
IAS-FRIS Symposium on
Social Robots and Ethical Design 2025
The Program
IAS-FRIS Symposium on
Social Robots and Ethical Design
November 5 - 7, 2025
Seminar Room, FRIS, Tohoku University
Day 1
Site Visit
15:00-16:00
Aobayama Living Lab, Room 523, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Building (A-15)
Social Event
16:00-17:00
Common Space, 5F, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Building (A-15)
Day 2
Session 1: Advanced Robotics
[ Moderator : David Torabi ]
9:30-10:00
Co-Creating Human-Centered Future Living: AI Robotics through Living Labs and Moonshot Houses
Yasuhisa Hirata (Tohoku University)
10:00-10:30
How should Robot Assistants behave?
Jim Tørresen (University of Oslo)
10:30-11:00
Soft Robotics: Shape Morphing and Locomotion by Controlled Buckling, Twisting, Bending, and 4D Printing
Jia-Yang Juang (National Taiwan University)
11:00-11:30
Effect of User Familiarity and Visual Complexity on Presence and Performance in a Simulated VAR Workspace
Ying-Yin Huang (National Taiwan University)
11:30-12:00
Physical and Mental Human-Robot Interaction for Assistive Robots
Mizuki Takeda (Toyohashi University of Technology)
12:00-14:00
Lunch Time
Session 2: Human-Robot Interaction
[ Moderator : Darius Torabi ]
14:00-14:30
Inclusion? Exclusion? Feelings of Rejection in Games with Robots
Hsiu-Ping Yueh (National Taiwan University)
14:30-15:00
Designing Ethical Futures: How Game-Based Simulation Prepares Students for Technology's Moral Challenges
Weijane Lin (National Taiwan University)
15:00-15:30
Designing Ethical Robot Governance: Lessons from Science Fiction and Games
Joshua C. Gellers (University of North Florida)
15:30-16:00
Social Acceptance of Anthropomorphism in Zoomorphic Robots: Insights from a Robot Dog Study
Zonghao Dong (Tohoku University)
16:00-16:30
Evaluating Theories Guiding the Ethical Design and Use of AI-Enabled Social Robots
Jessica K. Barfield (University of Kentucky)
Day 3
Session 3 : Public Policy and Philosophy
[ Moderator : Jui-Ying Wang ]
9:30-10:00
Sex Care & Robots.
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (Leiden University)
10:00-10:30
Smart Care and Human-Centered Compassion: Toward a Holistic Policy Blueprint for the Dignity of Older Adults
Peishan Yang (National Taiwan University)
Science for Robot Policy in Practice: From Systematic Reviews to Stakeholder Engagement and Testing
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (Leiden University)
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
Can Robot Design Help Mitigate the Risks of Responsibility Gaps?
Kamil Mamak (Jagiellonian University)
11:30-12:00
Logical reasoning for responsible interacting robots
Juliana Bowles (University of St Andrews)
12:00-14:00
Lunch Time
Session 4 : Ethical Design and Governance
[ Moderator : Khadija Imranova ]
14:00-14:30
The Exploration of the Adoption Trends of IEEE AI Socio-Technical Standards
Ruth Lewis (IEEE SSIT Standards Committee) (Online)
14:30-15:00
A cross-cultural study between Norway and Japan on consent on the use of social robots in public and private spaces – Users’ perspectives
Diana Saplacan Lindblom (University of Oslo) (Online)
15:00-15:30
Bridging Ethics and Reality: Integrating Thought Experiments and Empirical Insights in Robot Ethics
Yueh-Hsuan Weng (Kyushu University)
15:30-16:00
Privacy in the Age of Social Robots: Rethinking Consent Through Visual Design for Meaningful HRI
David Torabi (Kyusyu University)
16:00-16:30
When Machines Bloom into Life: VitaBots and the Moral Status of Biohybrid Lifeforms
Darius Torabi (Kyushu University)
Closing Remarks
16:30-16:40
IAS-FRIS Organizer
Yueh-Hsuan Weng (Kyushu University)
Conference Reception
18:00-20:00
Restaurant Hagi
University House Katahira (A01), Katahira Campus