AI Love You: Developments in Human-Robot Intimate Relationships

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Negative and Positive Influences on the Sensations Evoked by Artificial Sex Partners: A Review of Relevant Theories, Recent Findings, and Introduction of the Sexual Interaction Illusion Model  (Jessica M. Szczuka, Tilo Hartmann, Nicole C. Krämer)....Pages 3-19
 Intentionality but Not Consciousness: Reconsidering Robot Love  (Viktor Kewenig)....Pages 21-39
 The Use of Social Robots and the Uncanny Valley Phenomenon  (Melinda A. Mende, Martin H. Fischer, Katharina Kühne)....Pages 41-73
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 Living with Harmony: A Personal Companion System by Realbotix™  (Kino Coursey, Susan Pirzchalski, Matt McMullen, Guile Lindroth, Yuri Furuushi)....Pages 77-95
 Readable as Intimate: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Empirical Interrogation of Software Implementations of Intimacy  (Kit Kuksenok, Stefania Santagati)....Pages 97-110
 From the Mind to the Cloud: Personal Data in the Age of the Internet of Things  (Giuseppe Lugano, Martin Hudák, Matúš Ivančo, Tomáš Loveček)....Pages 111-130
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 Building Better Sex Robots: Lessons from Feminist Pornography  (John Danaher)....Pages 133-147
 Hologram Girl  (Oliver Bendel)....Pages 149-165
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 Preventive Strategies for Pedophilia and the Potential Role of Robots: Open Workshop Discussion  (Yuefang Zhou)....Pages 169-174
Front Matter ....Pages 175-175
 Intimate Relationships with Humanoid Robots: Exploring Human Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century  (Yuefang Zhou, Martin H. Fischer)....Pages 177-184
Back Matter ....Pages 185-189