Privacy Concerns in Robot Teleoperation - Does Personality Influence What Should Be Hidden?

Advances in robotics technology will bring more teleoperated robots into homes to perform a variety of household tasks. This raises new privacy concerns as the remote operator can control the robot and its camera, and record its sensor data. One way to provide some privacy protection is through on-board processing of the data to filter out sensitive visual information. But what do people want hidden, and how should we hide it? Do the personality traits of a particular user influence that choice? We designed an 85-question survey to help answer these questions and analyzed the data from 81 respondents. We found that people are most concerned about hiding identifiable personal or financial information and valuables from a household robot, and we found that they prefer stronger filters to hide such items. We also found some evidence of the existence of correlations between a person's familiarity with technology, sociability, and trust and their privacy concerns.