Love and Sex with Robots: 3rd International Conference

Love and Sex with Robots: Third International Conference, LSR 2017, London, UK, December 19-20, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Love and Sex with Robots, LSR 2017, held in December 2017, in London, UK.

The 12 revised papers presented together with 2 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 83 submissions.
One of the biggest challenges of the Love and Sex with Robots conference is to engage a wider scientific community in the discussions of the multifaceted topic, which has only recently established itself as an academic research topic within, but not limited to, the disciplines of artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, robotics, biomedical science and robot ethics etc.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. SSML for Sex Robots
Chapter 2. Being Riajuu [4648931En2FigaPrint.eps]
Chapter 3. Virtual Sex: Good, Bad or Ugly?
Chapter 4. Posthuman Desire in Robotics and Science Fiction
Chapter 5. Lying Cheating Robots – Robots and Infidelity
Chapter 6. Neurodildo: A Mind-Controlled Sex Toy with E-stim Feedback for People with Disabilities
Chapter 7. Selling Techno-futurism: Exploring Pepper’s Images and Discourses Taiwanese News Media Make
Chapter 8. Reflections on Moral Challenges Posed by a Therapeutic Childlike Sexbot
Chapter 9. The Next Evolution: The Constitutive Human-Doll Relationship as Companion Species
Chapter 10. Dolores and Robot Sex: Fragments of Non-anthropocentric Ethics
Chapter 11. Perceptions and Responsiveness to Intimacy with Robots; A User Evaluation
Chapter 12. The Influence of Body Proportions on Perceived Gender of Robots in Latin America