Walking Away from the Robot: Negotiating Privacy with a Robot

Privacy is often applied as an abstract concept in law and regulations. In everyday life, negotiating what information to share with whom, where, and at what times, and in what situations may be a challenge at home and in public space. We apply Palen and Dourish’s framework for understanding and discussing privacy to a setting of living with moving robots at home. We compare different ways sensors might be placed in a home environment, and what role proxemics, or motion technologies might have for the negotiation of privacy. By highlighting the role of the place and movement of the sensors, we discuss concrete privacy issues that are emerging with networked robot technologies at home. We hope to contribute new ways of thinking to users, designers, and analysts for creating and using mobile, networked technologies in domestic places.

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Trenton Schulz

Jo Herstad

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[1] Irwin Altman 1975 “The Environment and Social Behavior: Privacy, Personal Space, Territory, and Crowding” https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED131515

[2] Victoria BellottiSara Bly 1996 “Walking Away from the Desktop Computer: Distributed Collaboration and Mobility in a Product Design Team.” Proceedings of the 1996 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 209 218 CSCW '96 New York, NY, USA ACM doi:10.1145/240080.240256

[3] Victoria BellottiAbigail Sellen 1993 “Design for Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing Environments.” Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 13-17 September 1993 Milan, Italy ECSCW ’93 Giorgio de MichelisCarla SimoneKjeld Schmidt 77 92 Springer Netherlands doi:10.1007/978-94-011-2094-4_6

[4] Daniel J. ButlerJustin HuangFranziska RoesnerMaya Cakmak 2015 “The Privacy-Utility Tradeoff for Remotely Teleoperated Robots.” Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 27 34 HRI '15 New York, NY, USA ACM doi:10.1145/2696454.2696484

[5] K. CaineS. SabanovicM. Carter 2012 “The Effect of Monitoring by Cameras and Robots on the Privacy Enhancing Behaviors of Older Adults.” 2012 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 343 50 doi:10.1145/2157689.2157807

[6] Ryan Calo 2010 “Robots and Privacy.” SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 1599189 Rochester, NY Social Science Research Network https://pa-pers.ssrn.com/abstract=1599189

[7] Ryan Calo 2011 “The Drone as Privacy Catalyst.” SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 2340753 Rochester, NY Social Science Research Network https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2340753

[8] David Feil-SeiferKristine SkinnerMaja J. Mataric 2007 “Benchmarks for Evaluating Socially Assistive Robotics.” Interaction Studies 8 3 423 39 doi:10.1075/is.8.3.07fei

[9] Lothar FritschArne-Kristian GrovenTrenton Schulz 2012 “On the Internet of Things, Trust Is Relative.” Constructing Ambient Intelligence Reiner WichertKristof LaerhovenJean Gelissen 277 267 273 Communications in Computer and Information Science Berlin Springer Berlin Heidelberg

[10] Harald HoloneJo Herstad 2010 “Negotiating Privacy Boundaries in Social Applications for Accessibility Mapping.” Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries 217 225 NordiCHI '10 New York, NY, USA ACM doi:10.1145/1868914.1868942

[11] Alexander HubersEmily AndrulisLevi ScottTanner StirratRuonan ZhangRoss SowellMatthew RuebenCindy M. GrimmWilliam D. Smart 2015 “Using Video Manipulation to Protect Privacy in Remote Presence Systems.” Social Robotics Adriana TapusElisabeth AndréJean-Claude MartinFrançois FerlandMehdi Ammi 245 54 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9388 Springer International Publishing doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_25

[12] Alexander HubersEmily AndrulisWilliam D. SmartLevi ScottTanner StirratDuc TranRuonan ZhangRoss SowellCindy Grimm 2015 “Video Manipulation Techniques for the Protection of Privacy in Remote Presence Systems.” Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts 59 60 HRI'15 Extended Abstracts New York, NY, USA ACM doi:10.1145/2701973.2702048

[13] Jr. KahnH. PeterHiroshi IshiguroBatya FriedmanTakayuki KandaNathan G. FreierRachel L. SeversonJessica Miller 2007 “What Is a Human?: Toward Psychological Benchmarks in the Field of Human-robot Interaction.” Interaction Studies 8 3 363 90 doi:10.1075/is.8.3.04kah

[14] Takayuki KandaHiroshi Ishiguro 2012 Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics CRC Press

[15] S. KidoT. MiyasakaT. TanakaT. ShimizuT. Saga 2009 “Fall Detection in Toilet Rooms Using Thermal Imaging Sensors.” 2009 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) 83 88 doi: 10.1109/SI.2009.5384550

[16] Stanley Kubrick 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey

[17] Marc Langheinrich 2001 “Privacy by Design — Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems.” Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing Gregory AbowdBarry BrumittSteven Shafer 2201 273 291 Springer Berlin/Heidelberg http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45427-6_23

[18] Jinhan LeeJeffrey F. KiserAaron F. BobickAndrea L. Thomaz 2011 “Vision-Based Contingency Detection.” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 297 304 HRI ’11 New York, NY, USA ACM doi:10.1145/1957656.1957780

[19] Leysia PalenPaul Dourish 2003 “Unpacking ‘Privacy’ for a Networked World.” Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 129 136 CHI ’03 New York, NY, USA ACM doi:10.1145/642611.642635

[20] M. RuebenF. J. BernieriC. M. GrimmW. D. Smart 2016 “Evaluation of Physical Marker Interfaces for Protecting Visual Privacy from Mobile Robots.” 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 787 94 doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745209

[21] Matthew RuebenFrank J. BernieriCindy M. GrimmWilliam D. Smart 2017 “Framing Effects on Privacy Concerns About a Home Telepresence Robot.” Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 435 444 HRI ’17 New York, NY, USA ACM doi:10.1145/2909824.3020218

[22] Trenton SchulzKristin Skeide FuglerudHenrik ArfwedsonMarc Busch 2014 “A Case Study for Universal Design in the Internet of Things.” Universal Design 2014: Three Days of Creativity and Diversity Héctor CaltencoPer-Olof HedvallAndreas LarssonKirsten Rassmus-GröhnBitte Ryde-man 45 54 IOS Press http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/universal-de-sign-2014-three-davs-of-creativitv-and-diversity

[23] Dag Sverre SyrdalMichael L. WaltersNuno OteroKheng Lee KoayKerstin Dauten-hahn 2007 “He Knows When You Are Sleeping-Privacy and the Personal Robot Companion.” Proc. Workshop Human Implications of Human-robot Interaction, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’07) 28 33 http://www.aaai.org/Pa-pers/Workshops/2007/WS-07-07/WS07-07-006.pdf

[24] M. TømmerK. G. KjelgårdT. S. Lande 2016 “Body Coupled Wideband Monopole Antenna.” 2016 Loughborough Antennas Propagation Conference (LAPC) 1 5 doi: 10.1109/LAPC.2016.7807483

[25] Samuel D. WarrenLouis D. Brandeis 1890 “The Right to Privacy.” Harvard Law Review 4 5 193 220 doi:10.2307/1321160

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