Overview
- Provides evidence-based empirical research on the emerging topic of robot sex
- Addresses the implications of intimate relationships between humans and artificial partners
- Discusses and provides counter-arguments to the objections against robot sex
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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How Do We Interact with Our Artificial Partners?
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Is Technology Ready to Make Intimate Machines?
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New Trends to Satisfy Our Desire
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Possible Implications
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Keywords
- Sex Robots
- Love and Sex with Robots
- Human-Robot Intimate Relationships
- Human-Robot Affective Interaction
- Clinical Application of Sex Robots
- Robot Sex Crimes
- Child Sex Robots
- Machine Ethics
- Human Sexual Feature
- Social and Ethical Implications of Robot Sex
- Therapeutic Application of Robot Sex
- sexual behaviour
About this book
Topics featured in this book include:
- The Sexual InteractionIllusion Model.
- The personal companion system, Harmony, designed by Realbotix™.
- An exposition of the challenges of personal data control and protection when dealing with artificial intelligence.
- The current and future technological possibilities of projecting three-dimensional holograms.
- Expert discussion notes from an international workshop on the topic.
AI Love You will be of interest to academic researchers in psychology, robotics, ethics, medical science, sociology, gender studies as well as clinicians, policy makers, and the business sector.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yuefang Zhou is a Postdoctoral Visiting Scientist to the University of Potsdam in Germany and was a visiting scholar to the Charité Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany (2017 – 2018). She holds a Master with distinction in Applied Research Methods from the University of Dundee, UK. After completing her PhD at the University of Dundee in 2007, she first worked in social psychology on group identity in the University of St Andrews in 2008 and then in the area of Health Psychology in the Medical School of the University of St Andrews (2008 – 2017). In St Andrews she strengthened her expertise on studying human interactions in medical settings and developed a keen interest to study human-robot social interactions, to which she is currently devoting her full attention.
Martin H. Fischer is Professor of Cognitive Science, Chair of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Potsdam in Germany and speaker for the research focus on Cognitive Sciences at this university. After completing Psychology studies at RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1991, Martin worked in Massachusetts, USA, on human motor activity and eye movements. Following his PhD in Cognitive Psychology, he worked as a researcher at LMU in Munich, Germany, before moving to University of Dundee in Scotland in 1999. There, he worked for 12 years on various topics, including as human-robot interaction, before being appointed in Potsdam. Leading the Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group (PECoG), he has recently published the two-volume “Foundations of Embodied Cognition”.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: AI Love You
Book Subtitle: Developments in Human-Robot Intimate Relationships
Editors: Yuefang Zhou, Martin H. Fischer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19734-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19733-9Published: 31 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19736-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19734-6Published: 17 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 189
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Social Philosophy, Sexual Behavior, Sociology of Culture, Psychotherapy and Counseling