Challenging Sociality

Kathleen Richardson is Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK.

• 1. Challenging Sociality?.- 2. Autism, Social Attachment and Things.- 3. The Experiment: The Effectiveness of a Humanoid Robot for Helping Children.- 4. Reversing Roles with an Other: Echolalia and Pronoun Reversal.- 5. Attachment Theory and Autism.- 6. Psychiatry, Autism and the Machine.- 7. Sex Differences, Machines and Autism.- 8. A Multiple-Whole Approach to Autism.