Paper Info
Title
Ethical considerations of gendering very humanlike androids from an interdisciplinary perspective
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172355
2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
very humanlike androids,aesthetics,femininity,ethical issues,discriminatory issues,in-depth attention,humanlike robots,human demographics,interdisciplinary analysis,ethical considerations,robot design,social negotiations,cultural negotiations
Entertainment industry,Femininity,Engineering ethics,Computer science,Position paper,Cultural diversity,Demographics,Ethnology,Robot,Negotiation,Humanoid robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1944-9445
978-1-5386-3519-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elena Knox100.68
Katsumi Watanabe21816.97