Christena Nippert‐Eng
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Christena Nippert-Eng is a leading voice in the study of privacy, technology, and social interaction, with a particular focus on how families and adolescents navigate the complexities of emerging technologies. Her research centers on the relational and contextual nature of privacy, exploring how social robots and AI reshape boundaries within the home. In her highly cited 2024 paper, “Our business, not the robot’s: family conversations about privacy with social robots in the home” (13 citations), she reveals the nuanced privacy concerns of both parents and children through co-learning workshops, highlighting the need for stakeholder-sensitive design. Her follow-up work, “Snitches Get Unplugged: Adolescents' Privacy Concerns about Robots in the Home are Relationally Situated” (6 citations), breaks new ground by centering teens’ voices—a population often overlooked in privacy research—and demonstrating that their comfort with robotic data collection is deeply tied to social relationships. Nippert-Eng’s contributions are vital for technologists, policymakers, and families alike, offering a human-centered lens on the ethical deployment of AI in domestic spaces. Her work is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of privacy, adolescence, and human-robot interaction.
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