@inproceedings{919933ad20d1478baaa0fa9724b2a989,
title = "Using fNIRS To Understand Adults{\textquoteright} Empathy for Children in AI and Cybersecurity Scenarios",
abstract = "Empathy for children is critical for designing AI technologies that may affect children. This paper presents the work in progress of a study on the feasibility of a new method to provide objective understanding of people{\textquoteright}s empathy for children based on functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Adult participants (n=13) were presented with benign or concerning scenarios involving children interacting with AI technologies. Their brain activation patterns were recorded and analyzed. Preliminary data analysis revealed distinctive patterns in the mPFC region, which justifies future work to fully realize the potential of this method.",
keywords = "Children-AI interaction, Empathy for Children, Vignettes, fNIRS",
author = "Mohsena Ashraf and Genevieve Patterson and Zachary Kilhoffer and Xu Han and Nolan Brady and Anna Rahn and Nikhitha Atluri and Violet Oliver and Yun Huang and Yang Wang and Pilyoung Kim and Tom Yeh",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood, IDC 2023 ; Conference date: 19-06-2023 Through 22-06-2023",
year = "2023",
month = jun,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1145/3585088.3593869",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "630--634",
booktitle = "Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference",
address = "United States",
}