Abstract
The global shortage of nurses, an increasing elderly population, and limited informal caregiving options (e.g., family members as caregivers) have created a gap in elderly homecare services. At the same time, healthcare professionals are key stakeholders in the development of nurse robots for elderly home care, often showing low acceptance of robots due to concerns over safety, privacy, and quality of care. This talk examines perceived safety and perceived privacy around the use of robots in homecare for the elderly people.
Bio
Diana Saplacan Lindblom, Ph.D., is a researcher at the University of Oslo, at the Department of Informatics, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Research Group (ROBIN). She currently works in Vulnerabilities in Robot Society (VIROS) research project and in the Ethical Risk Assessment of Artificial Intelligence in Practice (ENACT). VIROS investigates privacy, safety, and security aspects related to the use of robots in home- and healthcare services. Her main role is to conduct research with users outside of the lab, bridging the legal and technical aspects in studies within real-world settings. In ENACT, she works towards developing a methodology for implementing ethical AI in various organizations, with project partners such as DNB, Posten, NAV, Medsensio, Hypatia Learning. During 2023, she was a visiting researcher at Kyoto University and Tohoku University, in Japan.
Diana earned her PhD from the University of Oslo in 2020 and has previously taught Computer Science and Software Development at Kristianstad University (Sweden, 2013-2016/2020). She has served on multiple committees related to digital ethics and AI, including The Norwegian Council for Digital Ethics, Standards Norway, Tekna Big Data, and IEEE study and working groups for establishing new ethical standards in HRI. Her research interests encompass HRI, studies with users, digitalization of home- and healthcare services, robots as welfare technologies, AI and ethics, Universal Design, inclusion, and accessibility.