Week 5: Love, Autism and Emotional Robots (Šlesingerová)
Obligatory reading:
RICHARDSON, Kathleen (2018) Challenging Sociality/An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment. Palgrave MacMillan, Introduction:Challenging Sociality (p. 1-15), Chapter 6: Autism and the Machine
(p 103-113).
Watch the TED video and read the Introduction from Kathleen Richardson´s book. Submit your questions connecting what you have seen and what you have read in the following discussion:
Recommended reading:
ALAČ, M (2016) Social robots: Things or agents? In AI & Society, 31(4): 519-53.
BREAZEAL, Cynthia (2002) Designing Sociable
Robots. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
JONES, R (2017) What makes a robot ´social´? In Social Studies of Science,
47(4): 556-79.
PICARD, RW (2000) Synthetic Emotion.
In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 20 (1):52-53.
PICARD RW (2003) Affective Computing:
Challenges. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 59
(1-2):55-64.
RICHARDSON, Kathleen (2015) An Anthropology
of Robots and AI. Annihilation Anxiety and Machines. Routledge Taylor &
Francis Group.