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H andbook and Delegate List 4 - 6 September 2012

When People Delegate

I had requested that all our information about the new calling plan be collected and be ready on my desktop for review by 8:00 am Friday morning. I was worried that I might not be well understood, and so I took great care to make myself very clear. It is now 10:00 am. I am at my desk, and I have no idea where that information is or if I’m going to get it in time. I think I need to rethink the v...

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To delegate or not to delegate: A review of control frameworks for autonomous cars.

There have been significant advances in technology and automated systems that will eventually see the use of autonomous cars as commonplace on our roads. Various systems are already available that provide the driver with different levels of decision support. This paper highlights the key human factors issues associated with the interaction between the user and an autonomous system, including as...

To delegate or not to delegate: Care robots, moral agency and moral responsibility

The use of robots in healthcare is on the rise, from robots to assist with lifting, bathing and feeding, to robots used for social companionship. Given that the tradition and professionalization of medicine and nursing has been grounded on the fact that care providers can assume moral responsibility for the outcome of medical interventions, we must ask whether or not a robot can assume moral re...