Associate Professor in AI and Society, joint with the Oxford Internet Institute and in association with Wadham College
Ekaterina’s research interests lie at the intersection of digital sociology and family sociology. She leads the ESRC-funded DomesticAI project that scopes new technologies’ potential to free up time now locked into unpaid domestic labour and measures how willing people are to introduce these technologies into their private lives.
First research findings offering predictions about the transformative potential of domestic automation have been published in PLOS ONE as The future(s) of unpaid work: How susceptible do experts from different backgrounds think the domestic sphere is to automation and Technological Forecasting and Social Change as The future of unpaid work: Estimating the effects of automation on time spent on housework and care work in Japan and the UK.
Looking more broadly at how digital technologies integrate into domestic life she also published a paper in Convergence on ‘It’s not her fault': Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users.