Pluralistic Human-Robot Interaction: Designing for Robot Interaction with Diverse Communities

Abstract:Social robots are being developed for homes, schools, and other environments where they will interact with diverse users. While Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research often emphasizes natural communication, engagement, personalization, and task success, these goals do not fully address the social complexity of real-world deployment. This paper proposes \emph{Pluralistic HRI}, a framework for designing social robots that treat human diversity as a foundational design concern. The framework brings together pluralism, civic dialogue, perspective-taking, empathy, intercultural competence, cultural humility, and moral imagination to guide inclusive, adaptive, and ethically grounded interaction. We outline how pluralistic HRI can inform design, evaluation, and deployment in diverse human communities.

Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2608.16049 [cs.HC]

(or arXiv:2608.16049v1 [cs.HC] for this version)

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