TY - GEN
T1 - Ethical considerations of gendering very humanlike androids from an interdisciplinary perspective
AU - Knox, Elena
AU - Watanabe, Katsumi
N1 - Funding Information:
*Research supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. E. Knox is with the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan (+817014062111; e-mail: knox@fennel.sci.waseda.ac.jp). K. Watanabe is with the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan (e-mail: katz@waseda.jp).
Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors acknowledge support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) by means of a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers. Use of Actroid-F was granted by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan, in assoc. with the Creative Robotics Lab, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of NSW, Australia. The authors thank Professors Ishiguro, Matsumoto and Velonaki.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/12/8
Y1 - 2017/12/8
N2 - A large proportion of very humanlike androids are assigned aesthetics typically associated with femininity. Ethical and discriminatory issues have yet to be given in-depth attention in procedural literature. This position paper suggests that implicitly viewing humanlike robots as agents that could, in future, substitute undesirable and/or exploitable humans may affect not just the robots' design, but also the human demographics considered replaceable. Such tendencies must be carefully considered by researchers, businesses, and policy makers. Interdisciplinary analysis may inform and expand social and cultural negotiations in the design of these androids.
AB - A large proportion of very humanlike androids are assigned aesthetics typically associated with femininity. Ethical and discriminatory issues have yet to be given in-depth attention in procedural literature. This position paper suggests that implicitly viewing humanlike robots as agents that could, in future, substitute undesirable and/or exploitable humans may affect not just the robots' design, but also the human demographics considered replaceable. Such tendencies must be carefully considered by researchers, businesses, and policy makers. Interdisciplinary analysis may inform and expand social and cultural negotiations in the design of these androids.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172355
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172355
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045734293
T3 - RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 539
EP - 546
BT - RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017
Y2 - 28 August 2017 through 1 September 2017
ER -