Robots and Children’s Privacy

Designing Robots with Children’s and Families’ Privacy Rights in Mind

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About the Project

Our group has been designing and conducting workshops to capture children’s and family’s understandings of privacy, robots, and the implications of robots within the home.  With the remarkable Leigh Levinson at the helm, we have enjoyed wonderful success so far with this innovative and important work.

This project is a collaboration with Leigh Levinson and Dr. Selma Sabanovic.

Publications

“Snitches Get Unplugged: Adolescents' Privacy Concerns about Robots in the Home are Relationally Situated”. Leigh Levinson, Indiana University Bloomington; Christena Nippert-Eng, Indiana University Bloomington; Randy Gomez, Honda Research Institute Japan; Selma Šabanović, Indiana University Bloomington; SubmissionID: hrifp1423; Publication/Conference name: HRI '24: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Proceedings April 2024.

“Our Business, Not the Robot's: Family Conversations about Privacy with Social Robots in the Home”. Leigh Levinson, Jessica McKinney, Christena Nippert-Eng, Randy Gomez and Selma Sabanovic. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, section Human-Robot Interaction. Manuscript ID: 1331347. Edited by: Joseph Edward Michaelis

Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank our participants for their time and feedback, which made this research possible. We would also like to thank the Department of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington for its support.