Embodiment, privacy and social robots: may I remember you?

Meg Tonkin, Jonathan Vitale, Suman Ojha, Jesse Clark, Sammy Pfeiffer, William Judge, Xun Wang, Mary-Anne Williams

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Abstract

As social robots move from the laboratory into public settings the possibility of unwanted intrusion into a user’s personal privacy is magnified. The actual social interaction between human and robot may involve anthropomorphising of the robot by the user, and this may prompt the user to disclose private or sensitive information. To comprehend possible impacts we conducted an exploratory study with a novel privacy measure to understand changes to users’ privacy considerations when interacting with an embodied robotic system vs a disembodied system. In this paper we measure the difference in personal information provided to such systems, and discuss the idea that embodiment may increase users’ risk tolerance and reduce their privacy concerns.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Robotics
Subtitle of host publication9th International Conference, ICSR 2017
EditorsAbderrahmane Kheddar, Eiichi Yoshida, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Kenji Suzuki, John-John Cabibihan, Friederike Eyssel, Hongsheng He
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
Pages506-515
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9783319700229
ISBN (Print)9783319700212
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2017 - Tsukuba, Japan
Duration: 22 Nov 201724 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Artificial Inteelligence
PublisherSpringer
Volume10652
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2017
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTsukuba
Period22/11/1724/11/17

Keywords

  • social robots
  • embodiment
  • privacy

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