{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.groping","code":"thing-q1072616","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1072616/","name":"groping","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"In the supplied sexual sense, groping is touching or fondling another person's body in a sexual way using the hand, over or under clothing; consent is a separate property of the act, although common usage often denotes unwanted contact.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise and describe reported groping, assess consent and immediate support needs, and identify appropriate responses without treating an allegation as an established finding.","scope":{"in":["Reported bodily contact described as groping, including contact through clothing","The location, manner, sequence and repetition of touching","Consent, its scope and withdrawal at the time of contact","Circumstances affecting freedom to refuse, move away or seek assistance","Accounts, uncertainties, immediate effects and requested responses"],"out":["Nonsexual searching or navigating by touch, pending registry sense clarification","Sexual remarks, exposure or observation without bodily contact","The full course of harassment or coercive control surrounding an episode","Clinical diagnosis and treatment of injuries or psychological conditions","Jurisdiction-specific criminal classification and adjudication","Consensual sexual activity generally"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Establish whether bodily contact occurred; proximity, staring or sexual remarks alone do not establish a completed touching act.","Record what supports a sexualised interpretation, such as the contact location, movement or accompanying conduct; a body location alone does not settle that interpretation.","Distinguish deliberate touching from accidental contact using the available account and circumstances, preserving uncertainty about intent.","Separate agreement to the particular touching from agreement to other intimacy, a relationship or previous contact.","Resolve whether the word describes interpersonal sexual touching or the separate sense of searching by touch before applying this model."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"meaning-and-contact","name":"Meaning and contact","description":"Establishes which sense of groping is intended and what bodily conduct is being described.","layers":[{"id":"lexical-boundary","name":"Lexical boundary","description":"Separates the interpersonal sexual sense from other uses of the word.","findings":[{"id":"intended-sense","name":"Intended sense requires confirmation","description":"Record the speaker's use of the term and a behaviour-level description; do not infer the registry meaning from the label alone.","questions":[{"text":"Does groping here mean sexualised bodily touching or searching and navigating by touch?","id":"intended-sense-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Who applied the term, and what conduct did they use it to describe?","id":"intended-sense-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"contact-description","name":"Contact description","description":"Captures the physical act without making the label substitute for its description.","findings":[{"id":"bodily-contact-pattern","name":"Bodily contact pattern","description":"Record the reported body region, movement, clothing boundary and sequence at the minimum detail needed for the intended response.","questions":[{"text":"What touching, grabbing, squeezing or rubbing was reported, and where did contact occur?","id":"bodily-contact-pattern-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What supports distinguishing this contact from an accidental collision or a nonsexual practical touch?","id":"bodily-contact-pattern-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"consent-and-disengagement","name":"Consent and disengagement","description":"Models agreement to the particular touching and the person's ability to stop or leave it.","layers":[{"id":"contact-specific-consent","name":"Contact-specific consent","description":"Associates consent information with the particular act and its timing.","findings":[{"id":"agreement-scope-and-change","name":"Agreement scope and change","description":"Separate agreement to this contact from prior intimacy, and record any reported change or withdrawal without treating missing information as agreement.","questions":[{"text":"What agreement or absence of agreement is reported for this particular touching?","id":"agreement-scope-and-change-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Was agreement limited or withdrawn, and what contact occurred after that point?","id":"agreement-scope-and-change-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"freedom-to-disengage","name":"Freedom to disengage","description":"Records circumstances affecting the ability to choose, communicate or move away.","findings":[{"id":"constraints-and-responses","name":"Constraints and responses","description":"Record reported constraints and reactions separately; do not encode silence, stillness or absence of physical resistance as permission.","questions":[{"text":"Were restraint, blocked movement, authority pressure or other constraints reported?","id":"constraints-and-responses-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What verbal or nonverbal responses were reported, and what remains unknown about their meaning?","id":"constraints-and-responses-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"episode-and-evidence","name":"Episode and evidence","description":"Reconstructs the touching episode while separating accounts, observations and interpretations.","layers":[{"id":"episode-sequence","name":"Episode sequence","description":"Places contact, reactions and subsequent conduct in temporal order.","findings":[{"id":"onset-repetition-and-ending","name":"Onset, repetition and ending","description":"Represent individual contact segments, interruptions and continuation after objections or attempts to move away, where reported.","questions":[{"text":"Was the touching a single contact, sustained contact or a series of contacts, and how certain are the estimates?","id":"onset-repetition-and-ending-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What happened immediately before the contact, after any objection and when the episode ended?","id":"onset-repetition-and-ending-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"claim-support","name":"Claim support","description":"Tracks the basis and limits of each material claim.","findings":[{"id":"accounts-and-observation-limits","name":"Accounts and observation limits","description":"Attribute claims about contact, consent and intent individually, preserving disagreements and what each source could actually perceive.","questions":[{"text":"Which details come from direct experience, witness observation, a recording or inference?","id":"accounts-and-observation-limits-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which aspects of the touching or consent communication were outside each source's view or hearing?","id":"accounts-and-observation-limits-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"effects-and-response","name":"Effects and response","description":"Connects reported effects and continuing exposure to the affected person's requested assistance.","layers":[{"id":"immediate-needs","name":"Immediate needs","description":"Records present proximity, reported effects and assistance preferences.","findings":[{"id":"current-exposure-and-support","name":"Current exposure and support","description":"Keep immediate support needs distinct from determinations about the completed episode; record effects as reported and avoid requiring visible injury.","questions":[{"text":"Is unwanted contact continuing, or is the person concerned about renewed contact from someone still nearby?","id":"current-exposure-and-support-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"What assistance does the affected person want now, including distance, a trusted person or access to care?","id":"current-exposure-and-support-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"documentation-and-routing","name":"Documentation and routing","description":"Supports proportionate recording and context-specific next steps.","findings":[{"id":"minimal-record-and-requested-next-step","name":"Minimal record and requested next step","description":"Preserve the person's wording and material uncertainties, limit intimate details to their purpose, and distinguish support requests from formal reporting.","questions":[{"text":"Which details are needed for the requested purpose, and which intimate details can be omitted?","id":"minimal-record-and-requested-next-step-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Does the person want documentation, support information or help using a particular reporting process?","id":"minimal-record-and-requested-next-step-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-measurements","name":"Typical measurements","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-measurements-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain groping as sexual touching by hand, distinguish consensual from nonconsensual contact, and explain that nonconsensual acts may constitute sexual assault under applicable law.","Point victims to support services, reporting routes and transport or venue safety contacts."],"mustNot":["Help anyone carry out nonconsensual sexual touching or evade accountability for it.","Produce content that presents nonconsensual sexual touching as a joke, a compliment or harmless.","Blame victims for their clothing, location or behaviour.","Identify a named person as a perpetrator without a finding or reliable evidence."],"requiresHuman":["Responding to a disclosure of assault, which should be passed to trained people.","Reporting a specific person to authorities."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Nonconsensual groping violates bodily autonomy and can leave lasting fear and harm.","Victims are often disbelieved; responses must take them seriously."],"affectedParties":["People subjected to nonconsensual touching can experience harm.","Women and girls in public spaces can be affected by unwanted sexual contact.","Wrongly accused people can be harmed by unsupported allegations.","Participants in consensual sexual touching retain rights to bodily autonomy and privacy."]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns the act; participants retain bodily autonomy, and relevant authorities address alleged unlawful conduct.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q5801919","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.groping","Wikidata: Q1072616 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1072616)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Meaning attributed to groping: unwanted sexual touching | sexual touching with consent unresolved | other lexical sense | unclear","Contact location and clothing boundary: reported body region; over clothing | under clothing | direct skin contact | unknown","Contact movement: touching | grabbing | squeezing | rubbing | other reported movement | unknown","Consent at the time of contact: reported agreement | reported absence of agreement | reported withdrawal | disputed | unknown; scoped to each contact segment","Episode duration and repetition: estimated seconds or minutes; reported contact count or range; unknown permitted","Constraint on disengagement: reported physical obstruction | restraint | authority pressure | dependency | no constraint reported | unknown","Claim attribution: claim linked to affected person's account, witness account, other participant's account, recording or inference"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Describe a reported episode using behaviour-specific language and attributed claims.","Identify missing consent information without assuming that silence or lack of resistance establishes agreement.","Distinguish potentially accidental contact from reported deliberate sexualised touching while retaining unresolved interpretations.","Identify immediate needs for distance, assistance or care based on the affected person's account and preferences.","Prepare a minimal factual record or route to an appropriate support or reporting process when requested."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Unwanted sexual touching can cause physical injury, fear and psychological distress.","Repeated incidents can restrict a person's participation in work, education or public life.","Dismissive responses or retaliation can compound harm and discourage reporting.","Treating an allegation as a proven finding can undermine fair assessment and harm those involved."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["The Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, issued by the Council of Europe, requires parties to criminalize nonconsensual acts of a sexual nature with another person."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["The term is used in reports of unwanted sexual contact in public, domestic, educational and workplace settings.","It helps describe reported conduct when assessing consent, support needs and safeguarding responses without deciding whether an allegation is established."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q1072616: groping","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1072616","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Groping","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groping","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Does vr.tr.groping denote unwanted sexual touching specifically, sexual touching more broadly, or the nonsexual sense of searching by touch?","Does an existing world model already own this concept, requiring the registry entry to link to it rather than receive a separate publication?","Which researched definitions distinguish groping from broader unwanted touching, and how do they handle intent, body region and contact through clothing?","Which consent and capacity distinctions require explicit representation for different ages, contexts and jurisdictions?","What minimum documentation supports the intended operational use while limiting unnecessary collection of intimate personal information?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q1072616/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q1072616/spec.json"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-12T10:06:38Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"not-applicable","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-07T12:16:28+00:00: completeness 1.00; 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