The robot intermediary: Mechanical analogies and autism |
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| Authors: | Kathleen Richardson |
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| Institution: | Senior Research Fellow in the Ethics of Robotics at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR), De Montfort University. She is author of An anthropology of robots and AI: Annihilation anxiety and machines (2015). |
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| Abstract: | The article explores the use of social robots as therapeutic agents for helping children with autism. I explore the circulation and use of mechanical analogies to describe autism, extended by psychiatrists and autism experts and adopted by robotic scientists interested in developing robots as social agents and in developing robots as therapeutic agents. |
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