Session 1: Advanced Robotics
9:30-10:00 Co-Creating Human-Centered Future Living: AI Robotics through Living Labs and Moonshot Houses. Yasuhisa Hirata (Tohoku University)

10:00-10:30 How should Robot Assistants behave? Jim Tørresen (University of Oslo)

10:30-11:00 Soft Robotics: Shape Morphing and Locomotion by Controlled Buckling, Twisting, Bending, and 4D Printing. Jia-Yang Juang (National Taiwan University)

11:00-11:30 Effect of User Familiarity and Visual Complexity on Presence and Performance in a Simulated VAR Workspace. Ying-Yin Huang (National Taiwan University)

11:30-12:00 Physical and Mental Human-Robot Interaction for Assistive Robots. Mizuki Takeda (Toyohashi University of Technology)

12:00-14:00 Lunch Time

Session 2: Human-Robot Interaction
14:00-14:30 Inclusion? Exclusion? Feelings of Rejection in Games with Robots. Hsiu-Ping Yueh (National Taiwan University)

14:30-15:00 Designing Ethical Futures: How Game-Based Simulation Prepares Students for Technology's Moral Challenges. Weijane Lin (National Taiwan University)

15:00-15:30 Logical reasoning for responsible interacting robots. Juliana Bowles (University of St Andrews)

15:30-16:00 Social Acceptance of Anthropomorphism in Zoomorphic Robots: Insights from a Robot Dog Study. Zonghao Dong (Tohoku University)

16:00-16:30 Evaluating Theories Guiding the Ethical Design and Use of AI-Enabled Social Robots. Jessica K. Barfield (University of Kentucky)

Session 3 : Public Policy and Philosophy
9:30-10:00 Smart Care and Human-Centered Compassion: Toward a Holistic Policy Blueprint for the Dignity of Older Adults. Peishan Yang (National Taiwan University)

10:00-10:30 Science for Robot Policy in Practice: From Systematic Reviews to Stakeholder Engagement and Testing. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (Leiden University)

10:30-11:00 Can Robot Design Help Mitigate the Risks of Responsibility Gaps? Kamil Mamak (Jagiellonian University)

11:00-11:30 Robots That Care (So We Don’t Have To): Interpassivity in Experimental Robot Governance. Kamil Karczewski (University of Graz)

11:30-12:00 Designing Ethical Robot Governance: Lessons from Science Fiction and Games. Joshua C. Gellers (University of North Florida)

12:00-14:00 Lunch Time

Session 4 : Ethical Design and Governance
14:00-14:30 The Exploration of the Adoption Trends of IEEE AI Socio-Technical Standards. Ruth Lewis (IEEE SSIT Standards Committee)

14:30-15:00 A cross-cultural study between Norway and Japan on consent on the use of social robots in public and private spaces – Users’ perspectives. Diana Saplacan Lindlom (University of Oslo)

15:00-15:30 Bridging Ethics and Reality: Integrating Thought Experiments and Empirical Insights in Robot Ethics. Yueh-Hsuan Weng (Kyushu University)

15:30-16:00 Privacy in the Age of Social Robots: Rethinking Consent Through Visual Design for Meaningful HRI. David Torabi (Kyusyu University)

16:00-16:30 When Machines Bloom into Life: VitaBots and the Moral Status of Biohybrid Lifeforms. Darius Torabi (Kyushu University)

Closing Remarks
16:30-16:40 IAS-FRIS Organizer 

Yueh-Hsuan Weng (Kyushu University)

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