Interactive Technologies for Autism

Kientz, Julie A.; Goodwin, Matthew S.; Hayes, Gillian R.; Abowd, Gregory D.

doi:10.2200/s00533ed1v01y201309arh004

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“…For example, there is robust evidence in support of robot interventions for promoting social skills among children with autism [51,52]. A potential pitfall of technology-led morality, in this specific instance, would be a naïve belief that providing non-autistic children with robot companions can enhance their social skills, a belief resting on a simplistic 'engineering logic':…”

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Engineering Cheerful Robots: An Ethical Consideration

Jones

2018

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Socially interactive robots in a variety of forms and function are quickly becoming part of everyday life and bring with them a host of applied ethical issues. This paper concerns meta-ethical implications at the interface among robotics, ethics, psychology, and the social sciences. While guidelines for the ethical design and use of robots are necessary and urgent, meeting this exigency opens up the issue of whose values and vision of the ideal society inform public policies. The paper is organized as a sequence of questions: Can robots be agents of cultural transmission? Is a cultural shift an issue for roboethics? Should roboethics be an instrument of (political) social engineering? How could biases of the technological imagination be avoided? Does technological determinism compromise the possibility of moral action? The answers to these questions are not straightforwardly affirmative or negative, but their contemplation leads to heeding C. Wright Mills' metaphor of the cheerful robot.

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Engineering Cheerful Robots: An Ethical Consideration

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2018

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“…Most technologies for autistic children are grounded in an interventionist perspective (see [28] for an overview). As a consequence, their evaluation has generally been framed around the researchers' goals of functionally understanding their effectiveness with respect to behavioural outcomes.…”

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Participatory Evaluation with Autistic Children

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Malinverni

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et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Participatory Design (PD) has become a standard methodology in HCI, however, the evaluation of the outcomes of participatory processes is often exclusively driven by researcher defined measures of success. Through our work with autistic children, who have radically different life worlds from our own, it became evident that their criteria for the success of a project are most likely also very different. In order to address the limitations of researcher defined and led evaluations in this context, we developed an approach for participatory evaluation called PEACE (Participatory Evaluation with Autistic ChildrEn). Using this approach, we were able to include autistic children in dedicated evaluation phases through the co-definition of goals and methods, joint processes of data gathering and the co-interpretation of results. We discuss three case studies in which we successfully applied our approach and conclude with a reflection on the novel insights created through participatory evaluation and researchers' roles in such a process.

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“…Actualmente el uso de la tecnología digital se ha extendido exponencialmente llegando a campos tan versátiles como la robótica y la realidad virtual (Kientz, Goodwin, Hayes & Abowd, 2013).…”

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La tecnología móvil. Una herramienta para la mejora de la inclusión digital de las personas con TEA

Sanromà-Giménez¹

2017

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Interactive Technologies for Autism

Cited by 107 publications

References 257 publications

Engineering Cheerful Robots: An Ethical Consideration

Engineering Cheerful Robots: An Ethical Consideration

Participatory Evaluation with Autistic Children

La tecnología móvil. Una herramienta para la mejora de la inclusión digital de las personas con TEA

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