Challenging Sociality (eBook)

An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment

Kathleen Richardson (Autor)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
XVI, 156 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-74754-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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 is Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK.

Inhalt

1. Challenging Sociality?2. Autism, Social Attachment and Things3. The Experiment: The Effectiveness of a Humanoid Robot for Helping Children4. Reversing Roles with an Other: Echolalia and Pronoun Reversal5. Attachment Theory and Autism6. Psychiatry, Autism and the Machine7. Sex Differences, Machines and Autism8. A Multiple-Whole Approach to Autism

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
• Reihe/Serie: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 156 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• 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: 3-319-74754-1 / 3319747541
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-74754-5 / 9783319747545