WP5 – Trustworthiness

Ultimately, service robots to be fully socially acceptable for humans need to be perceived as trustworthy. The inability of a robot to transparently communicate may create anxiety in humans and may negatively affect human-robot coexistence. SWEET investigates how to improve the Trustworthiness (WP5). DCs need to understand what type of human-machine interaction may arise from the use of the devices, in the light of the design, as well as of the services and functionalities offered, and how the latter in turn might affect humans, as, for example, in terms of possible privacy violation and psychological harm and how privacy and security violations can be prevented from the technological point of view.