The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions
The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions
- New search for: García Velázquez, Isabel
- New search for: García Velázquez, Isabel
With a growing curiosity in anthropomorphic robots, academics and interested parties have started to examine the ethical implications and social impacts of their (mis)use. Gender in anthropomorphic robots is a field that is slowly beginning to receive attention. Yet, its ambiguity has led to treating gender in anthropomorphic robots in a reductionist fashion, pointing to how stereotypical characteristics make certain gender identities and practices legible. I illustrate that the making of gendered bodies goes beyond the oversimplification of stereotypical readable gender cues. Thus, relational and corporeal ways of connecting people and technological artifacts can help to (de)construct the practices of gendering the human body and the body of anthropomorphic robots. This entails alive genders. By alive genders I am referring to an approach which keeps understandings of gender destabilized and evolving. This not only brings awareness to the interdependence of the human body and the body of anthropomorphic robots but helps designers and roboticists to study the gendering of robots as a part of social practices. ; Funding Agencies|Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program-Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) - Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation [MMW2019.0151]; Linkoeping University
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The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions
2023-01-01
ISI:000943108000001
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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