Global Challenges in Social Anthropology

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.