  Privacy-sensitive robotics is an emerging area of HRI research. Judgments
about privacy would seem to be context-dependent, but none of the promising
work on contextual "frames" has focused on privacy concerns. This work studies
the impact of contextual "frames" on local users' privacy judgments in a home
telepresence setting. Our methodology consists of using an online questionnaire
to collect responses to animated videos of a telepresence robot after framing
people with an introductory paragraph.
  The results of four studies indicate a large effect of manipulating the robot
operator's identity between a stranger and a close confidante. It also appears
that this framing effect persists throughout several videos. These findings
serve to caution HRI researchers that a change in frame could cause their
results to fail to replicate or generalize. We also recommend that robots be
designed to encourage or discourage certain frames.
