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Project Overview  Purpose: to explore the portrayal of people with disabilities within social robotics literature  Method: Literature review  Databases:

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2 Project Overview  Purpose: to explore the portrayal of people with disabilities within social robotics literature  Method: Literature review  Databases: ScienceDirect, Compendex, IEEE, Communication Abstracts, Scopus, OVID, EBSCO, Academic One File, Web of Science, and JSTOR  Number of articles reviewed: 171

3 Overview of social robotics research

4 Top publishing countries:

5 Social robotics and healthcare KeywordNumber of articles Health60 Healthcare19 Patient40 Elderly47 Disability30 Autism28 Stroke9 Rehabilitation21

6 Imagery of disabled people  Medical perspective and ability-deficit orientation  Ability-charged definitions and terms: Ex. children with autism have “deficits in theory of mind”, or “functional limitations”  Results in “fixing” framework for robotics applications

7 Implications  What about the alternative view? Neurodiversity  Need for inclusion of alternative views of disability and the solutions that social robotics can offer

8 We acknowledge the support of the Wolb-Pack


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