GENDERING ROBOTS: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics
"This workshop is held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) and will be held in hybrid form.
Statement of Objectives
The present workshop builds on the GenR 2021 workshop – Gendering Robots: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics, which was held as part of RO-MAN on August 12th, 2021. As per the previous edition of GenR, we aim to bring together researchers interested in the gendering of robots and its resultant impact on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). The gendering of robots seems unavoidable given users’ tendency to anthropomorphize robots; this might have a positive impact on the acceptance of robots, but could also lead to the propagation of harmful gender stereotypes. Alternatively, it has been suggested that intentional gendering and/or queering of robots could be used to tackle such stereotypes by demonstrating and normalising gender norm-breaking behaviours and appearances.
Our spotlight theme for this year’s workshop is Intersectional Feminism..."