Enchanting Robots

Musiał, Maciej

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“…Advanced sex robots with excellent social and sexual skills and perfect looks who enter relationships with humans out of their own free will could be very attractive for many people [ 82 ]. Advanced sex and love robots could bring more love to the world [ 94 ], but they could, at the same time, devalue real humans [ 93 ]. However, the concept of an advanced sex robot that is almost indistinguishable from a real human paradoxically makes it seem pointless to build sex robots.…”

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Design, Use, and Effects of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots: Scoping Review

Döring¹,

Mohseni²,

Walter³

2020

J Med Internet Res

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Background Although sex toys representing human body parts are widely accepted and normalized, human-like full-body sex dolls and sex robots have elicited highly controversial debates. Objective This systematic scoping review of the academic literature on sex dolls and sex robots, the first of its kind, aimed to examine the extent and type of existing academic knowledge and to identify research gaps against this backdrop. Methods A comprehensive multidisciplinary, multidatabase search strategy was used. All steps of literature search and selection, data charting, and synthesis followed the leading methodological guideline, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist. A total of 29 (17 peer reviewed) and 98 publications (32 peer reviewed) for sex dolls and sex robots, respectively, from 1993 to 2019 were included. Results According to the topics and methodologies, the sex doll and sex robot publications were divided into 5 and 6 groups, respectively. The majority of publications were theoretical papers. Thus far, no observational or experimental research exists that uses actual sex dolls or sex robots as stimulus material. Conclusions There is a need to improve the theoretical elaboration and the scope and depth of empirical research examining the sexual uses of human-like full-body material artifacts, particularly concerning not only risks but also opportunities for sexual and social well-being.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design, Use, and Effects of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots: Scoping Review

Döring¹,

Mohseni²,

Walter³

2020

J Med Internet Res

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“…This more implicit way of embedding magic in HCI, the design for enchantment, is actually very popular in a variety of HCI domains, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and the human-robot interaction (HRI) fields where products are intentionally designed for encouraging people to "attribute properties such as thought, imagination, memory, will, sensation, perception, belief, desire, intention, or feelings to these products" [24]. Leveraging enchanting mechanisms (e.g., deceptive behaviors as in [79]) products are conceptualized and experienced as social agents rather than tools [24,93,113]. In this regard, Watson and colleagues [123] identified thirteen principles of stage magic that can be applied to user experience design, such as vanishing, transformation, and prediction.…”

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(Un)making AI Magic: A Design Taxonomy

Lupetti,

Murray-Rust

2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Michael Saler (2011) in his book As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality , follows Max Weber, juxtaposing enchantment to the finite and calculable disenchantment of modernity. Maciej Musiał (2019), building off of Weber, argues that disenchantment of our relationship with robots and AI happens due to the lack of three meaningful feelings: understanding, security and control, and meaning. According to him, this lack invites re-enchantment, thus making disenchantment and re-enchantment complementary rather than mutually exclusive.…”

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Traversing Anthropocentric Horizons With Her: Trans-Corporeal Surrogacy, Enchantment, and Disenchantment in Human-Machine Assemblage

Betlemidze

2021

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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This article aims to shed light on the intricacies that overturn McLuhan's vision of technologies as extensions or prosthetics of human capabilities when applied to human-machine communication (HMC). Human and nonhuman entities co-evolve on an equal agential footing, immersed in mediatized assemblages. Building on the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, Bennett, and others, it theorizes HMC as a cycle of sonic enchantment, culminating in trans-corporeal surrogacy, disrupted by disenchantment, and started again through re-enchantment. A new materialist framework helps explain the process of posthuman HMC. It provides a close-textual and visual analysis of Spike Jonze's film Her (2013), in which a human develops a romantic relationship with his AI assistant. The aspects of vulnerability, neediness, authenticity, trust, and intimacy surpass the lure of real-time personalized audio communication. The paper argues that artificial intelligence acquires autonomous agency through the processes of enchantment and mutual surrogacy that decenter humans in mediatized assemblages.

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Enchanting Robots

Cited by 51 publications

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Design, Use, and Effects of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots: Scoping Review

Design, Use, and Effects of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots: Scoping Review

(Un)making AI Magic: A Design Taxonomy

Traversing Anthropocentric Horizons With Her: Trans-Corporeal Surrogacy, Enchantment, and Disenchantment in Human-Machine Assemblage

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