Challenging Sociality

An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment

Kathleen Richardson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVI, 156 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-74753-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Kathleen Richardson, Senior Research Fellow in the Ethics of Robotics, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 156 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Artificial Intelligence • Attachment-based therapy • Attachment Theory • Autism • Emotional development • human bonding • humanoid robots • interpersonal relationships • Psychological Anthropology • Psychological Development • Robot Ethics • Robotics • Science and Technology Studies • Social interactions • social robotics
ISBN-10	3-319-74753-3 / 3319747533
ISBN-13	978-3-319-74753-8 / 9783319747538
Zustand	Neuware