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Position: Human-Robot Interaction in Embodied Intelligence Demands a Shift From Static Privacy Controls to Dynamic Learning

Published: September 23, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2509.19041v1

By: Shuning Zhang , Hong Jia , Simin Li and more

Potential Business Impact:

Keeps your private information safe from smart robots.

Business Areas:
Human Computer Interaction Design, Science and Engineering

The reasoning capabilities of embodied agents introduce a critical, under-explored inferential privacy challenge, where the risk of an agent generate sensitive conclusions from ambient data. This capability creates a fundamental tension between an agent's utility and user privacy, rendering traditional static controls ineffective. To address this, this position paper proposes a framework that reframes privacy as a dynamic learning problem grounded in theory of Contextual Integrity (CI). Our approach enables agents to proactively learn and adapt to individual privacy norms through interaction, outlining a research agenda to develop embodied agents that are both capable and function as trustworthy safeguards of user privacy.

Country of Origin
🇦🇺 🇨🇳 🇳🇿 New Zealand, Australia, China

Page Count
7 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Human-Computer Interaction