Challenging sociality : an anthropology of robots, autism, and attachment / Kathleen Richardson.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Richardson, Kathleen (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Series:	Social and cultural studies of robots and AI.
Subjects:	Autism in children > Treatment. Robots > Therapeutic use. Robots > Social aspects. Social skills in children. Socialization. Autistic children > Behavior modification. Artificial intelligence. Automation. Clinical psychology. Developmental psychology. Robotics. Social sciences.