Imagery of Disabled People within Social Robotics Research

Yumakulov, Sophya; Yergens, Dean; Wolbring, Gregor

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_17

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“…Given how broad the newspapers interpret the term robot many opportunities have existed over time to report on the topic. For example, in the last few years, social robots (robots that are able to engage in social interaction with other robots and humans) have been envisioned to be of use for disabled people [70,[115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124]; however, there was no article in the newspapers that covered the role or application of social robots for disabled people.…”

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Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers?

Wolbring

2016

Societies

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Abstract:The impact of robots on employment is discussed extensively, for example, within the academic literature and the public domain. Disabled people are known to have problems obtaining employment. The purpose of this study was to analyze how robots were engaged with in relation to the employment situation of disabled people within the academic literature present in the academic databases EBSCO All-an umbrella database that consists of over 70 other databases, Scopus, Science Direct and Web of Science and within n = 300 Canadian newspapers present in the Canadian Newsstand Complete ProQuest database. The study focuses in particular on whether the literature covered engaged with the themes of robots impacting (a) disabled people obtaining employment; (b) disabled people losing employment; (c) robots helping so called abled bodied people in their job to help disabled people; or (d) robots as coworkers of disabled people. The study found that robots were rarely mentioned in relation to the employment situation of disabled people. If they were mentioned the focus was on robots enhancing the employability of disabled people or helping so called abled-bodied people working with disabled clients. Not one article could be found that thematized the potential negative impact of robots on the employability situation of disabled people or the relationship of disabled people and robots as co-workers. The finding of the study is problematic given the already negative employability situation disabled people face.

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Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers?

Wolbring

2016

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“…Problems related to the imagery of disabled people is not a new one but is seen for a long time a pervasive issue [35,48,49] whether on the one hand the tragedy imagery the participants of the discussion forum disability and the Post-2015 development goal agenda [12] questioned a lot or the "supercrip" image where disabled people are portrait as heroically overcoming "their limitation" [50][51][52][53][54][55][56]. These imageries are detrimental to disabled people taking part in SD discourses as "normal" citizens indeed these imageries were seen as one cause of the lack of political and societal will to increase the social health of disabled people by the participants of the discussion forum disability and the Post-2015 development goal agenda [12].…”

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Disabled People and the Post-2015 Development Goal Agenda through a Disability Studies Lens

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Abstract:The purpose of this study was to examine the role and visibility of disabled people in the discourses of various global policy processes related to sustainable development and the Post-2015 development agenda. This article makes several recommendations for strengthening the role of disabled people in these discourses. The research addresses the question of how the disability community and sustainable development community relate to each other in these discourses. This study provides quantitative and qualitative data on three aspects of the relationship. One set of data highlights who is seen as a stakeholder in general and the visibility of disabled people in the social sustainability, sustainable consumption, Rio+20 and Post-2015 development agenda proposals discourses and what participants of the online consultation for a disability inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond had to say about the issues of visibility of disabled people in development discourses. A second set of data illuminates the attitudes towards disabled people evident in the SD discourses including through the eyes of the participant of the online consultation for a disability inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond. The final set of data compares the goals and actions seen as desirable for the advancement of SD evident in the SD literature covered and the online consultation for a disability inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond. This study interpreted the data through a disability studies lens. The study found that OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2013, 5 4153 disabled people were barely visible to invisible in the SD literature covered, that the goals and actions proposed in the SD discourses are of high relevance to disabled people but that these discussions have generally not been explicitly linked to disabled people. It found further that disabled people have clear ideas why they are invisible, what the problems with development policies are and what needs to happen to rectify the problems. It found also that there was a lack of visibility of various SD areas and goals within the disability discourse. This paper provides empirical data that can be used to further the goal of mainstreaming of disabled people into the SD and Post-2015 development discourses as asked for in various high-level UN documents. However, we posit that the utility of our paper goes beyond the disability angle. Our quantitative data also highlights other forms of social group visibility unevenness in the literature and as such, we argue that the data we present in this paper is also of use for other stakeholders such as youth, women and indigenous people and also for NGOs and policy makers.

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“…In the field of scientific and technological development, perceptions of disabilities are profoundly influenced by the medical framework [49,54]. That is, people with disabilities become "defined and confined" within this framework [53,54]. Consequently, the beliefs that encompass the medical framework influence the perception of disabilities and people with disabilities among other discourses as well -reducing their identity and scope of social participation [53,54].…”

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Who Needs to Fit in? Who Gets to Stand out? Communication Technologies Including Brain-Machine Interfaces Revealed from the Perspectives of Special Education School Teachers Through an Ableism Lens

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Wolbring

2013

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Some new and envisioned technologies such as brain machine interfaces (BMI) that are being developed initially for people with disabilities, but whose use can also be expanded to the general public have the potential to change body ability expectations of disabled and non-disabled people beyond the species-typical. The ways in which this dynamic will impact students with disabilities in the domain of special education is explored. Data was drawn from six special education school teachers from one school in Calgary, Alberta. Five sub-themes (social acceptance, not adding to the impairment, fear of judgement by society, pursuing “normality” and meeting the demands of society) were identified that fit under the main identified theme of “fitting in by not standing out”. Findings demonstrate a dichotomy in participant views of non- or socially acceptable communication devices. The perception of BMI technology was also explored among special education school teachers, revealing benefits and challenges with the uptake of this technology for students with disabilities. Perceptions of people with disabilities and ableism are presented as conceptual frameworks to interpret the influence and impact of the findings

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Imagery of Disabled People within Social Robotics Research

Cited by 24 publications

References 49 publications

Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers?

Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers?

Disabled People and the Post-2015 Development Goal Agenda through a Disability Studies Lens

Who Needs to Fit in? Who Gets to Stand out? Communication Technologies Including Brain-Machine Interfaces Revealed from the Perspectives of Special Education School Teachers Through an Ableism Lens

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