Aged Care with Socially Assistive Robotics under Advance Care Planning Socially assistive robotics (SAR) is expected to improve care for aged people. However, SARassisted care raises ethical issues such as safety, dependence, privacy, dehumanization, etc. Although guidelines have been prepared for addressing these issues in the development process, some are beyond the responsibility of engineers. This paper argues for a role of healthcare professionals in ethically sound SARassisted care, connecting the concept of advance care planning (ACP) with the ethics of SAR. This process allows the care to reflect the preferences and values of care recipients, but there are several barriers to ACP in SARassisted care. This paper suggests measures for improving conduct of the ACP process: education, and community care. Decisionmaking that appropriately reflects the preferences of the care recipient enables SARassisted care to be ethically acceptable.

Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for LongTerm InHome Use for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Socially assistive robotics (SAR) research has shown great potential for supplementing and augmenting therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, the vast majority of SAR research has been limited to shortterm studies in highly controlled environments. The design and development of a SAR system capable of interacting autonomously it in situ for long periods of time involves many engineering and computing challenges. This paper presents the design of a fully autonomous SAR system for longterm, inhome use with children with ASD. We address design decisions based on robustness and adaptability needs, discuss the development of the robotu0027s character and interactions, and provide insights from the monthlong, inhome data collections with children with ASD. This work contributes to a larger research program that is exploring how SAR can be used for enhancing the social and cognitive development of children with ASD.