Challenging Sociality [electronic resource] : An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment

• Tác giả: Kathleen Richardson
• ISBN-13: 978-3319747545
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 303.483 Development of science and technology
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Mô tả vật lý: XVI, 156 p. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 287037
• Chủ đề: 1. Artificial intelligence; 2. Clinical psychology; 3. Control engineering; 4. Robotics; 5. Science-Social aspects

Tóm tắt

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. .