Challenging Sociality - An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Kathleen Richardson
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	156
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-74753-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of those with special educational needs > Teaching of learning disabled persons Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Automatic control engineering > Robotics
LSN:	3-319-74753-3
Barcode:	9783319747538

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