Challenging sociality an anthropology of robots, autism, and attachment /
This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA. Robotic scientists propose that robots can therapeutically help children with autism because there is a "special" affinity between them and...
| Main Author: | Richardson, Kathleen, |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 152 pages). |
| Series: |
Social and cultural studies of robots and AI.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Challenging Sociality?
- 2. Autism, Social Attachment and Things
- 3. The Experiment: The Effectiveness of a Humanoid Robot for Helping Children
- 4. Reversing Roles with an Other: Echolalia and Pronoun Reversal
- 5. Attachment Theory and Autism
- 6. Psychiatry, Autism and the Machine
- 7. Sex Differences, Machines and Autism
- 8. A Multiple-Whole Approach to Autism.