@article{da9a8a7fc02e41fdbc7d9ceb8066eb0b,
title = "Of dolls and men: Anticipating sexual intimacy with robots",
abstract = "Sex and intimate technologies are important in people's everyday lives. A class of technologies that is becoming increasingly more prominent in discussions of the future are sex robots. In this article, we present a qualitative analysis of posts from a forum where people describe their interactions with sex dolls and their motivations for using them through text and photographs. Forum users use dolls as a content authoring interface, imbue them with agency, and construct meaningful sexual relationships with them. Implications for the design of future robots and autonomous agents in humans' everyday lives are discussed. We highlight that sex dolls are used for more than just sex; they provide fertile ground for embodied fictions and care of the self. Future, customizable technologies for sexual intimacy and wellness should account for this use.",
author = "Su, {Norman Makoto} and Amanda Lazar and Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award 1513604. Authors{\textquoteright} addresses: N. M. Su, J. Bardzell, and S. Bardzell, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, 919 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA; emails: {normsu, jbardzel, selu}@indiana.edu; A. Lazar, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, 4130 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20740, USA; email: lazar@umd.edu. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. {\textcopyright} 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. 1073-0516/2019/05-ART13 $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/3301422 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).",
year = "2019",
month = may,
doi = "10.1145/3301422",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "26",
journal = "ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction",
issn = "1073-0516",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
number = "3",
}