Where is Vincent?: Expanding our emotional selves with AI

Minha Lee; Lily Frank; Yvonne de Kort; Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn

doi:10.1145/3543829.3543835

Where is Vincent? Expanding our emotional selves with AI

Minha Lee, Lily Frank, Yvonne de Kort, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn

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Abstract

In what ways could the future of emotional bonds between humans and conversational AI change us? To explore this question in a multi-faceted manner, designers, engineers, philosophers as separate focus groups were given a design fiction probe— a story of a chatbot’s disappearance from a person’s life. Though articulated in discipline-specific ways, participants expressed similar concerns and hopes: 1) caring for a machine could teach people to emotionally care for themselves and others, 2) the boundary between human and non-human emotions may become blurred when people project their own emotions onto AI, e.g., a bot’s ”breakdown” as one’s own, and 3) people may then intertwine their identities with AI through emotions. We consider ethical ramifications of socially constructed emotions between humans and conversational agents.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2022
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	19:1-19:11
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9739-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3543829.3543835
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2022
Event	4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2022 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Jul 2022 → 28 Jul 2022 Conference number: 4

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2022
Abbreviated title	CUI 2022
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	26/07/22 → 28/07/22

Keywords

Affective computing
Conversational AI
Design fiction
Focus groups

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Lee, M., Frank, L., de Kort, Y., & IJsselsteijn, W. A. (2022). Where is Vincent? Expanding our emotional selves with AI. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2022 (pp. 19:1-19:11). Article 19 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543829.3543835

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Lee, M , Frank, L , de Kort, Y & IJsselsteijn, WA 2022, Where is Vincent? Expanding our emotional selves with AI. in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2022., 19, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, pp. 19:1-19:11, 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2022, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 26/07/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543829.3543835

Where is Vincent? Expanding our emotional selves with AI. / Lee, Minha ; Frank, Lily ; de Kort, Yvonne et al.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2022. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2022. p. 19:1-19:11 19 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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