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The robot intermediary: Mechanical analogies and autism
Author(s) -
Richardson Kathleen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12298
Subject(s) - autism , robot , psychology , cognitive science , human–computer interaction , computer science , sociology , artificial intelligence , developmental psychology
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.