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The robot intermediary: Mechanical analogies and autism

Kathleen Richardson

Year
2016
Citations
4

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.

Keywords

AutismRobotPsychologyCognitive scienceHuman–computer interactionComputer scienceSociologyArtificial intelligenceDevelopmental psychology

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