Challenging Sociality : an Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment / by Kathleen Richardson.

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Challenging Sociality : an Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment / by Kathleen Richardson.

3319747541 (electronic book)
9783319747545 (electronic book)
3319747533
9783319747538

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

©2018

English

1 online resource (xviii, 152 pages)

10.1007/978-3-319-74754-5 doi

HM846-851RC466.8Q334

303.32087

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 mechanical things. This idea is supported by autism experts that claim those with autism have a preference for things over other persons. Autism is also seen as a gendered condition, with men considered less social and therefore more likely to have the condition. The author explores how these experiments in cultivating social skills in children with autism using robots, while focused on a unique subsection, is the model for a new kind of human-thing relationship for wider society across the capitalist world where machines can take on the role of the "you" in the relational encounter. Moreover, underscoring this is a form of consciousness that arises out of specific forms of attachment styles.

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Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI, 2523-8523

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