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Socio-digital vulnerability refers to the susceptibility of individuals and groups within mediated environments to decisional, social, or constitutive interference. In this work, we bring together a set of existing phenomena on mediated environments to identify how technology that is designed to be social, renders us vulnerable. In collaboration with Professor Ryan Calo.
WeRobot 2023 (preliminary draft) | Legitimacy in an Online World Workshop

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These projects address the ways that socially embodied interfaces might impact traditional advertising practices. In collaboration with Anastasia Ostrowski and Kate Darling.
alt.HRI 2022 | WeRobot 2022 (preliminary draft)

This systematic review looked at the ways that children's fundamental AI rights, as defined by UNICEF, have historically been addressed in child-robot interaction research. In collaboration with Vicky Charisi and Professor Selma Sabanovic.
HRI 2023 Short Paper

Social agents are becoming more popular and are generating new legal and policy issues. The Robot Policy Design Toolkit is a design research tool to allow any generation to design and consider how we can develop policy for social robot technologies around nine ethic topics. It has been tested with children, older adults, and technology developers. In collaboration with Anastasia Ostrowski.
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