Love and Sex with Robots: Third International Conference, LSR 2017, London, UK, December 19-20, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

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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. Front Matter ....Pages I-XIV SSML for Sex Robots (Oliver Bendel)....Pages 1-11 Being Riajuu [Open image in new window] (Nicola Liberati)....Pages 12-25 Virtual Sex: Good, Bad or Ugly? (Hoshang Kolivand, Abdoulvahab Ehsani Rad, David Tully)....Pages 26-36 Posthuman Desire in Robotics and Science Fiction (Sophie Wennerscheid)....Pages 37-50 Lying Cheating Robots – Robots and Infidelity (Rebekah Rousi)....Pages 51-64 Neurodildo: A Mind-Controlled Sex Toy with E-stim Feedback for People with Disabilities (Leonardo M. Gomes, Rita Wu)....Pages 65-82 Selling Techno-futurism: Exploring Pepper’s Images and Discourses Taiwanese News Media Make (Kuan-Hung Lo)....Pages 83-95 Reflections on Moral Challenges Posed by a Therapeutic Childlike Sexbot (Marc Behrendt)....Pages 96-113 The Next Evolution: The Constitutive Human-Doll Relationship as Companion Species (Deborah Blizard)....Pages 114-127 Dolores and Robot Sex: Fragments of Non-anthropocentric Ethics (Thomas Beschorner, Florian Krause)....Pages 128-137 Perceptions and Responsiveness to Intimacy with Robots; A User Evaluation (Chamari Edirisinghe, Adrian David Cheok, Nosiba Khougali)....Pages 138-157 The Influence of Body Proportions on Perceived Gender of Robots in Latin America (Gabriele Trovato, Cesar Lucho, Friederike Eyssel, Jasmin Bernotat)....Pages 158-168 Back Matter ....Pages 169-169