Love, Joy, and Autism Robots: A Metareview and Provocatype
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05098v1
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 07:01:12 GMT
- Title: Love, Joy, and Autism Robots: A Metareview and Provocatype
- Authors: Andrew Hundt, Gabrielle Ohlson, Pieter Wolfert, Lux Miranda, Sophia
Zhu, Katie Winkle
- Abstract summary: We conduct a review of autism robot reviews and find the dominant research direction is Autistic people's second to lowest (24 of 25) research priority.
We draw on the principles and findings of the latest Autism research, Feminist HRI, and Robotics to imagine a role reversal.
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- Abstract: Previous work has observed how Neurodivergence is often harmfully
pathologized in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot interaction
(HRI) research. We conduct a review of autism robot reviews and find the
dominant research direction is Autistic people's second to lowest (24 of 25)
research priority: interventions and treatments purporting to 'help'
neurodivergent individuals to conform to neurotypical social norms, become
better behaved, improve social and emotional skills, and otherwise 'fix' us --
rarely prioritizing the internal experiences that might lead to such
differences. Furthermore, a growing body of evidence indicates many of the most
popular current approaches risk inflicting lasting trauma and damage on
Autistic people. We draw on the principles and findings of the latest Autism
research, Feminist HRI, and Robotics to imagine a role reversal, analyze the
implications, then conclude with actionable guidance on Autistic-led scientific
methods and research directions.
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