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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298356903321

Autore

Richardson Kathleen

Titolo

Challenging Sociality [[electronic resource] ] : An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment / / by Kathleen Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

3-319-74754-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 152 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

618.9285882

Soggetti

Technology—Sociological aspects

Clinical psychology

Artificial intelligence

Robotics

Automation

Developmental psychology

Science and Technology Studies

Clinical Psychology

Artificial Intelligence

Robotics and Automation

Developmental Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .