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Perceptions and Responsiveness to Intimacy with Robots; A User Evaluation

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Love and Sex with Robots (LSR 2017)

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In human-robot interactions research it is significant to question what measures humans will take to contest the challenges and what will become of them. Levy hypothesizes that robots will stimulate human senses with their many capabilities and humans will accept them as intimate companions because the human perception of intimacy will transform to accommodate various nuances. However, the question remains, how much humans understand and accept intimacies with robots. We argue that perceptions of human-robot interactions (HRI) and intimate interactions with robots have a certain impact on how individuals comprehend intimacies with robots. Long term contact with robots, in terms of robotic technology and conversations, will change our views and practices regarding intimacy with robots. Our study revealed that lack of awareness of the potentials of future AI robots has created a fear; fear of losing both tangible, intangible, and the sense of dominance. Yet, our participants’ intimate interactions with robots produced varying degree of responses that, we believe are revealing another scope of human-robot interactions.

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  1. Imagineering Institute, Anchor 5, 79250, Iskandar Puteri, Johor, Malaysia

    Chamari Edirisinghe, Adrian David Cheok & Nosiba Khougali

  2. City, University of London, 10, Northampton Square, London, EC1V0HB, UK

    Chamari Edirisinghe, Adrian David Cheok & Nosiba Khougali

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Edirisinghe, C., Cheok, A.D., Khougali, N. (2018). Perceptions and Responsiveness to Intimacy with Robots; A User Evaluation. In: Cheok, A., Levy, D. (eds) Love and Sex with Robots. LSR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10715. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76369-9_11

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