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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.
Table des matières
- 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
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
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.
Texte suppl.
In this innovative and powerful text, McStay (Bangor Univ., UK) provides both a thorough description and an epistemic and ethical assessment of contemporary technologies designed to emulate, interpret, and express empathy...this text stands out as a pioneering and enlightening piece, meriting reexamination for its profound insights into the intersection of technology, ethics, and human emotion. Essential. All readership levels.
