While personalisation is becoming a defining capability in human-robot interaction (HRI), the existing literature on responsible personalisation remains fragmented, offering isolated accounts of ethical risks without a structured understanding of how they emerge across interaction contexts. This gap is particularly critical in HRI, where robots' embodiment and social presence can amplify and reshape such risks or generate new types of risks.
The paper "Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI" addresses the lack of clear prompt design in human‑robot interaction using large language models. It proposes a framework and a structured prompt template with eight functional components to specify, bound, and adapt robot behavior. The authors base their guidelines on a review of prior work and on survey data from 27 HRI experts, highlighting issues such as unclear robot personality, the need for user adaptation, and ethical concerns around safety, deception, and governance.
By Ashita Ashok, Franziska Babel, Patrick Holthaus, Rucha Khot, Karla Bransky, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Karsten Berns, Silvia Rossi, Minha Lee, Guy Laban
arXiv:2607. 07775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The human body is at the center of a growing family of technologies designed to tightly and persistently couple biological and digital systems.
By Kwesi Afari Darfoor, Patrick M. Pilarski, Bailey Kacsmar
arXiv:2606. 09038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled increasingly personalized interactions by adapting to users' preferences, contexts, and long-term histories.
By Yanyan Luo, Xue Han, Ruiqiao Bai, Xin Huang, Yitong Wang, Qian Hu, Qing Wang, Chunxu Zhao, Jie Liu, Cong Geng, Lehao Xing, Pengwei Hu, Junlan Feng
Care robots are increasingly being introduced into healthcare settings, raising important questions about their acceptance and ethical implementation. To better understand these challenges, this study investigates caregivers' perceptions of four categories of care robots: delivering supplies, helping patients into bed, monitoring vital signs, and assisting with mobility.
arXiv:2606. 03312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While household robots are often evaluated based on task completion, everyday domestic environments involve value-conflicting situations in which robots are expected to choose actions that prioritize other values than task success, such as human autonomy, efficiency, or social appropriateness.
By Jongwook Han, Hyeongjin Kim, Yohan Jo