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Title: Interacció entre robots sexuals i persones: intimitat, tecnologia i representacions
Author: Montserrat Triay, Ismael
Tutor: Martí Pérez, Josep
Abstract: Robophilia is an innovative phenomenon related to people who have sex with robots equipped with artificial intelligence devices. Rather than approaching a dissenting sexual practice, it is analysed whether it reproduces and consolidates, through technological interaction, values and body and gender representations that can be described as traditional, assigning certain roles to men and women, hierarchical and hegemonic. It is also interesting to illustrate how this technological interaction affects the intimate life of people who own sex robots in their intimacy and emotional life, and how it can affect the interaction between people or shape new relational models. To achieve this, the present work will be nourished by three sources of information. First, it will be shown the treatment of the phenomenon by the ordinary press. The following is the result of a random survey to show the cultural imagery built around robophilia. To continue with an approach to the field, from two fronts, on the one hand with a collection of interviews with managers of the company RealDoll, the leading brand in the design, development and marketing of sex robots, and on the other, with an approach/ dive into The Doll Forum sex robot user forum. It will also offer a glimpse of how my concept around the phenomenon has evolved as I have delved deeper into research. The view of robophilia is twofold, on the one hand framed in posthumanist parameters, understanding robophilia as a relational, situated and inseparable fact of the context in which it occurs, and, on the other hand, the potential of sexbots for disrupt hegemonic binaries and offer new possibilities for pleasure if human appearance is transcended as a goal in both design and use.
Keywords: robot-human interaction
body
affect
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
Issue Date: 25-Jun-2022
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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