Most studies on socially assistive robots (SARs) in elder care are conducted in care homes and recruit participants with some degree of cognitive impairment. The ethical dimension in these studies thus requires careful attention, suggesting that the researchers involved should be offered specific research ethics training. To meet this need in CARESSES—an international multidisciplinary project that aims to design and evaluate the first culturally competent SAR for the care of older adults—a research ethics training module for the project researchers was developed. The training module is largely based on case-based learning (CBL), a widely recognized approach to learning and instruction that is regarded as highly effective across multiple disciplines. In this paper, we argue that research ethics training should be offered to robotics investigators involved in research on SARs in elder care, and we provide an overview of the ethical issues involved in conducting research with SARs and older adults in care homes. Finally, we show how CBL can be used for research ethics training in this context.

大多数关于老年人护理中的社交辅助机器人（SAR）的研究都是在疗养院进行的，招募具有一定程度的认知障碍的参与者。因此，在这些研究中的道德层面需要得到认真的关注，这表明应该为参与的研究人员提供特定的研究伦理培训。为了满足“关怀”中的这一需求，“关怀”是一个国际性的多学科项目，旨在设计和评估第一个具有文化能力的老年人护理SAR，为项目研究人员开发了一个研究道德培训模块。培训模块主要基于案例学习（CBL），这是一种广泛认可的学习和指导方法，被认为在多个学科中都非常有效。在本文中，我们认为应该为参与老年人护理和康复研究的机器人研究人员提供研究伦理培训，并且我们概述了与护理院和老年人进行SAR的研究有关的伦理问题。最后，我们展示了在这种情况下如何将CBL用于研究道德培训。