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Feminist Human-Robot Interaction: Disentangling Power, Principles and Practice for Better, More Ethical HRI

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Donald McMillan,

Katherine Harrison,

Madeline Balaam,

Ericka Johnson,

Iolanda LeiteAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 72 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576973

Published: 13 March 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is inherently a human-centric field of technology. The role of feminist theories in related fields (e.g. Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science) are taken as a starting point to present a vision for Feminist HRI which can support better, more ethical HRI practice everyday, as well as a more activist research and design stance. We first define feminist design for an HRI audience and use a set of feminist principles from neighboring fields to examine existent HRI literature, showing the progress that has been made already alongside some additional potential ways forward. Following this we identify a set of reflexive questions to be posed throughout the HRI design, research and development pipeline, encouraging a sensitivity to power and to individuals' goals and values. Importantly, we do not look to present a definitive, fixed notion of Feminist HRI, but rather demonstrate the ways in which bringing feminist principles to our field can lead to better, more ethical HRI, and to discuss how we, the HRI community, might do this in practice.

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