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Our research explores how cute design influences our relationship with home robots, including our perception of the risks associated with their unprecedented access to personal information.
The power of cuteness
Social home robots are designed to manage household tasks as well as relationships.
They are networked with the internet and smart home devices, and they use cameras and voice control to provide empathetic interactions. Researchers are exploring how their cute design counteracts the possible risks associated with such companions.
In a recent publication, New York University digital media scholar Luke Stark argues that the materiality of digital devices is tied to our feelings about them. The more "warmly" we feel about our devices, the more we lower our barriers to privacy.
"The context for our feelings shapes what we intuit as appropriate in terms of our desire for privacy. Yet our affective and emotional connection to the hardware and interfaces of our devices is precisely what prompts us to be less conscious, and thus less uneasy, about what is the most critical element of information privacy: our device content, our own 'small' trails of data and metadata."
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-super-cute-home-robots.html#jCp
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