Examining the State of Robot Identity

Miranda, Lux; Castellano, Ginevra; Winkle, Katie

doi:10.1145/3568294.3580168

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“…Further, people in “double jeopardy” ( 86 ) – that is, who are part of an intersectional disadvantaged categories [e.g., low SES and a minority ethnic group ( 87 )] – tend to have less access to technology then people with one disadvantage category ( 88 ), increased loneliness, and lower quality of life ( 89 ). People in these different categories are likely to experience different benefits from technology and different challenges ( 90 – 92 ). Future research should explore the intersectionality of multiple identities related to the challenges of individuals who lack access to social technology due to lower age, SES, ethnicity, and other reasons.…”

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“If you weren't connected to the Internet, you were not alive”: experience of using social technology during COVID-19 in adults 50+

Ling,

Langlois,

Preusse

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionLoneliness and social isolation reduce physical and mental wellbeing. Older adults are particularly prone to social isolation due to decreased connection with previous social networks such as at workplaces. Social technology can decrease loneliness and improve wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted quarantine and social distancing for many people, creating a context of widespread social isolation.MethodIn the current study, we interviewed middle-aged and older adults' (n = 20) about their use of social technology when social isolation was common: during the early part of the pandemic while social isolation and masking were still required in the United States, between August 2020 and June 2021.We analyzed the data using three-phase coding. We compare our results against the model of the bidirectional and dynamic relationship between social internet use and loneliness.ResultsWe found that during the COVID-19 pandemic, our participants experienced decreased social interaction and moved toward online interaction. Participant use of social technology supported the stimulation hypothesis - that is, they used it to maintain existing relationships and social connection. The findings also add novel evidence that the stimulation hypothesis endures for older adults during enforced isolation (in this case due to the COVID- 19 pandemic).DiscussionBased on our data, we also propose adding the presence or realism of connection via social technology as a main factor to the model and engaging with construal level theory of social presence to fill in critical variables of this relationship. We further find that digital exclusion acts as a barrier to obtaining benefits from stimulation via social technology and recommend that further research examined digital exclusion in relation to the bidirectional and dynamic model. Finally, we discuss recommendations for improving social technology to benefit middle-aged and older adults.

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“If you weren't connected to the Internet, you were not alive”: experience of using social technology during COVID-19 in adults 50+

Ling,

Langlois,

Preusse

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Degrees of Freedom: A Storytelling Game that Supports Technology Literacy about Social Robots

Mott,

Higger,

Bejarano

et al. 2024

2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN)

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Who is a robot? A fundamental model of artificial identity

Miranda

2024

2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN)

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Though some matters of consensus have begun to crystallize, scholars in human-robot interaction have thus far reasoned about artificial identity under many different definitions. Many of these seemingly disparate perspectives may, however, be unified into one coherent model through a synthesis of contemporary scientific and Buddhist philosophy of identity. Under this model, artificial and human identity are modeled equivalently under an assumption that there is no "immutable essence" which constitutes an agent's identity, but rather that identity may be defined as the sum of overlapping aggregates subject to change through time. The model reckons with the idea that much of what is conceived of as identity may be arbitrarily ascribed, artificial boundaries, but that these boundaries often constitute substantial social and psychological realities. This thinking is congruent with contemporary philosophical perspectives across disciplines from biology to cognitive science. The model may serve as a useful tool for roboticists to reason about identity in complex, dynamic situations, and provide a firm foundation for work which utilizes artificial identity. The model may even offer one or two possible answers to the question: Who is a robot? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License.

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Examining the State of Robot Identity

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

“If you weren't connected to the Internet, you were not alive”: experience of using social technology during COVID-19 in adults 50+

“If you weren't connected to the Internet, you were not alive”: experience of using social technology during COVID-19 in adults 50+

Degrees of Freedom: A Storytelling Game that Supports Technology Literacy about Social Robots

Who is a robot? A fundamental model of artificial identity

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