Gender is a primary characteristic by which people organize themselves. Previous research has shown that people tend to unknowingly ascribe gender to robots based on features of their embodiment. Yet, robots are not necessarily ascribed the same, or any, gender by different people. Indeed, robots may be ascribed non-human genders or used as "genderless" alternatives. This underlies the notion of gender neutrality in robots: neither masculine nor feminine but somewhere in between or even beyond gender. Responding to calls for gender as a locus of study within robotics, we offer a framework for conducting an open living review to be updated periodically as work emerges. Significantly, we provide an open, formalized submission process and open access dataset of research on gender neutrality in robots. This novel and timely approach to consensus-building is expected to pave the way for similar endeavours on other key topics within human-robot interaction research.
翻译:先前的研究显示,人们往往不知情地根据机器人的外形特征将性别与机器人联系起来。然而,机器人不一定被不同的人赋予相同或任何性别。事实上,机器人可能被定性为非人类的性别,或被用作“无性别”的替代物。这在机器人的性别中立概念中,既不是男性也不是女性,而是介于性别之间,甚至超越性别之间。响应关于将性别作为机器人学习中心的呼吁,我们提供了一个框架,用于进行公开的生活审查,在工作出现时定期更新。重要的是,我们提供了一个开放的、正式的提交程序和关于机器人中性别中立的研究的公开存取数据集。这种新颖和及时的建立共识方法有望为人类机器人互动研究中其他关键议题的类似努力铺平道路。