# Concerns and Values in Human-Robot Interactions: A Focus on Social Robotics

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05628 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.05628/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 10 Jan 2025.

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Learning to Evaluate Autonomous Behaviour in Human-Robot Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.06404/) (2025)
- [VITA-E: Natural Embodied Interaction with Concurrent Seeing, Hearing, Speaking, and Acting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.21817/) (2025)
- [Consent Chain Degradation in Embodied Multi-Agent Systems: Bridging the Gap Between AI Agent Governance and Robot Ethics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.16300/) (2026)
- [RobotValues: Evaluating Household Robots When Human Values Conflict](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.03312/) (2026)
- [A Contractualist Argumentation Framework for Moral Decision-Making](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.01937/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Robots, as AI with physical instantiation, inhabit our social and physical world, where their actions have both social and physical consequences, posing challenges for researchers when designing social robots. This study starts with a scoping review to identify discussions and potential concerns arising from interactions with robotic systems in the context of healthcare, education, and private homes. Two focus groups of technology ethics experts then validated a comprehensive list of key topics and values in human-robot interaction (HRI) literature in these contexts. These insights were integrated into the HRI Value Compass web tool, to help HRI researchers identify these values in robot design. The tool was evaluated in a pilot study. This work benefits the HRI community by highlighting key concerns in human-robot interactions and providing an instrument to help researchers design robots that align with human values, ensuring future robotic systems adhere to these values in social applications.