"And This, Kids, Is How I Met Your Mother": Consumerist, Mundane, and Uncanny Futures with Sex Robots

Troiano, Giovanni Maria; Wood, Matthew; Harteveld, Casper

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376598

Cited by 25 publications

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“…social robots [5,24,26,29,43,79,84,92,95,102,133,134,136,161,163,171,174,177], autonomous vehicles [107,110,145,179], conversational agents [140,150], recommender systems [49,179], facial recognition [178], in general [9,18,38,101,120] Mobile and web applications 23 personal health [12,35,125,128,132,139,173], research [21,108,113,123,146], services [25, 30, 31, 40, 65-67, 100, 130, 145, 164] Social networks and forums 12 crowd-sourcing [10,82,83,103,…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Scoping Review of Ethics Across SIGCHI

Vilaza

Doherty

McCashin

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Ethical deliberation has proved a consistent feature of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) since its earliest years, spanning the respectful involvement of research participants to design choices impacting fairness, freedom and welfare. Despite growing discussions, applied knowledge and practical approaches for navigating complex moral dilemmas remain challenging to grasp. Motivated by the need for a structured overview, this paper contributes a scoping review of ethics as discussed across 129 full-length SIGCHI papers containing the search term 'ethic*' in their title, abstract or authors' keywords over the last ten years. Findings show increasing prioritisation of the topic, particularly within Artifcial Intelligence. Value-Sensitive and Critical Design appear as the most frequently applied orientations, and participatory approaches are more prevalent than those without end-user input. Engaging with a spectrum from personal to societal concerns, the SIGCHI literature thus echos calls for critical perspectives on user-centred processes and the need to establish more sustainable responsibility structures. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics → Codes of ethics; • Humancentered computing → Interaction design process and methods; • General and reference → Surveys and overviews.

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Section: Technology Types Instances Referencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When it comes to broader societal issues, concerns around injustice, unfairness, exclusion, and bias feature most often relating to AI [49,101,150,161,168,171,179]. Questions of justice are also often raised in studies involving temporary workers (for example, Amazon Mechanical Turk workers) [10,82,87,100,103,162].…”

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A Scoping Review of Ethics Across SIGCHI

Vilaza

Doherty

McCashin

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Within HCI, in 2011 Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell proposed sex toys as a case of third-wave HCI, because of vibrators' commitments to experience, embodiment, pleasure, intimacy, and so on [2]. A decade passed since then and Interaction Design have explored several technologies related to sexuality, including sex robots [15,27,74,81,85], pornography [46,61], pleasure objects [12], and even virtual reality pornography [89]. Yet there has been comparatively little attention paid to vibrators, especially their design, interactions between vibrators and women, or experiences vibrators offer for women, with very few exceptions [21].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Hidden Language of Vibrators: A Politico-Ontological Reading

Hua

Jones

Bardzell

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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As digital artifacts for women's pleasurable experience, vibrators are sophistically designed, embedded with cutting-edge technology, and popular among women. Yet they are still facing social, cultural, and legal obstacles; they are disappointingly understudied by academia as a topic of research. In this pictorial, we use vibrators as our vehicles to speculate future aesthetic, social, and political ways of being related to female sexuality. Our speculation is based on a critical politico-ontological reading of the contemporary design of vibrators by situating it in the historical, cultural, and visual contexts through an art historical analysis. We find that the contemporary design of vibrators carries gender norms and sexual normativity into

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“…Once a taboo topic, sex has gained in popularity as an explicit research focus in human computer interaction over the last two decades [18,20,60,107]. Much of this research has been into sexual wellness, or how technologies can positively augment our sexual lives [8,35,59,100,117].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…social justice [8,9]. Research in this area has commonly explored how current and future technologies may augment sexual gratification and wellness, particularly with sex toys [8,35] and sex robots [97,100,101,107].…”

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Computer-Mediated Consent to Sex

Zytko

Furlo

Carlin

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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This paper reports an interview study about how consent to sexual activity is computer-mediated. The study's context of online dating is chosen due to the prevalence of sexual violence, or nonconsensual sexual activity, that is associated with dating app-use. Participants (n=19) represent a range of gender identities and sexual orientations, and predominantly used the dating app Tinder. Findings reveal two computer-mediated consent processes: consent signaling and affirmative consent. With consent signaling, users employed Tinder's interface to infer and imply agreement to sex without any explicit confirmation before making sexual advances in-person. With affirmative consent, users employed the interface to establish patterns of overt discourse around sex and consent across online and offline modalities. The paper elucidates shortcomings of both computer-mediated consent processes that leave users susceptible to sexual violence and envisions dating apps as potential sexual violence prevention solutions if deliberately designed to mediate consent exchange. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; • Social and professional topics → User Characters → Gender; Sexual orientation

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"And This, Kids, Is How I Met Your Mother": Consumerist, Mundane, and Uncanny Futures with Sex Robots

Cited by 25 publications

References 86 publications

A Scoping Review of Ethics Across SIGCHI

A Scoping Review of Ethics Across SIGCHI

The Hidden Language of Vibrators: A Politico-Ontological Reading

Computer-Mediated Consent to Sex

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