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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; Selma Šabanović

Originally published 2024-03-21 · Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/frobt.2024.1331347 ↗

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AI / system type

Social-robot family design workshop; hypothetical home use

Direct parenting evidence

Directly addresses parents or caregiving, including parent studies, syntheses and audits of parenting advice.

The AI connection

Families considered social-robot functions and data flows in home scenarios.

Why this reading matters

Directly includes both parent and child voices in the same discussion.

Editorial reading guide · Collaboration

How can our family decide together what a home robot should collect and share?

Maps to Collaboration through negotiated family privacy boundaries and room for compromise.

Study context

Six parent-child families analyzed after exclusions from eight recruited families

Age / stage: Analyzed children approximately 7–11 years

Read with three questions

  1. When did parents adopt their child’s decision?
  2. Why did families choose nuanced third responses instead of yes/no?
  3. How did parental scaffolding help children discuss hypothetical data use?

Keep the limits in view

Very small museum-based pilot and hypothetical scenarios; does not demonstrate actual home privacy behavior or long-term consensus.

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Leigh Levinson; Jessica McKinney; Christena Nippert-Eng; Randy Gomez; Selma Šabanović (2024). Our business, not the robot’s: family conversations about privacy with social robots in the home Frontiers in Robotics and AI. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2024.1331347

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