Challenging Sociality: An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment

by Kathleen Richardson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319747533
• ISBN13: 9783319747538
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"