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Deception, Secrets, Children, and Robots: What’s Acceptable?

March 5, 2015

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Kory Westlund, J., & Breazeal, C. (2015). Deception, Secrets, Children, and Robots: What’s Acceptable? Workshop on The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction, held in conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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This short paper describes two scenarios that occurred during human-robot interaction studies with children involving (1) telling secrets to robots, and (2) deception about the robot’s agency. These stories raise questions pertaining to children’s privacy, the importance of trust in a relationship, the deception inherent in Wizard-of-Oz studies, and children’s general construal of robots. Many of these questions remain relevant as we move toward autonomy, and when we consider other vulnerable populations.
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