Automating Empathy - Decoding Technologies That Gauge Intimate Life

Drawing insights across ethics, philosophy, and policy, Automating Empathy offers a critical exploration of technologies that sense human emotions and argues for a pluralistic reconceptualization of empathic technologies to better reflect the intimate dimensions of human life.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Automating Empathy


• SECTION I: THEORY AND ETHICS




• Chapter 2: Hyperreal Emotion


• Chapter 3: Assessing the Physiognomic Critique


• Chapter 4: Hybrid Ethics


• Chapter 5: The Context Imperative: Extractivism, Japan, and Holism


• SECTION II: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS




• Chapter 6: Positive Education


• Chapter 7: Automating Vulnerability: Sensing Interiors


• Chapter 8: Hybrid Work: Automated for the People?


• Chapter 9: Waveforms of Human Intention: Towards Everyday Neurophenomenology


• Chapter 10: Selling Emotions: Moral Limits of Intimate Data Markets


• Chapter 11: Uncertainty for Good: Inverting Automated Empathy


• References

About the author

Andrew McStay is Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of books, articles, and chapters assessing emergent technologies and their social implications. His work has covered cross-cultural social analysis of emotional AI, extended reality, and personal data stores. Active in the technology standards development community, he also serves as an advisor to policy organisations, NGOs, and as a critical friend to several start-ups.

Summary

Drawing insights across ethics, philosophy, and policy, Automating Empathy offers a critical exploration of technologies that sense human emotions and argues for a pluralistic reconceptualization of empathic technologies to better reflect the intimate dimensions of human life.

Product details

• Authors: McStay, Andrew McStay, Andrew (Bangor University) Mcstay, Andrew (Professor of Technology and Societ Mcstay, Andrew (Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab McStay, McStay Andrew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.11.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9780197615546
• ISBN: 978-0-19-761554-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Cultural Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Technology: general issues, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Natural language & machine translation, Natural language and machine translation