Isabel García Velázquez
PhD student
I have a keen interest in autism and artificial intelligence-based technologies in care settings. Specifically, how autism is understood today by roboticists and how those ideas are presented in social robots.
Social Robots and Autism
Robotic research and imaginaries of autism often centre around the potential of robot therapies for transforming or healing the person with autism or the preference of those “on the spectrum” for mechanical and predictable things over other persons. This approach, as it is used in the design of assistive technologies and artificial intelligence systems in Euro-American research, reinscribes Enlightenment structures that lead to classify certain behaviours as autistic or social deficits while other similar expressions enjoy rational status as socially accepted.
Publications
García Velázquez, Isabel. (2021). "Artificial Identity Cataracts Who defines the current AI discourse?" on A New AI Lexicon. AI Now Institute.
García Velázquez, Isabel. (2021). "When Sustainability Met AI". WASP-HS
García Velázquez, Isabel. (2021). "Multidisciplinarity is at the core". WASP-HS
García Velázquez, Isabel. (2021) "If bodies could talk, what would they say?" p. 16 on Anthropology of Technology Conference Program
García Velázquez, Isabel. (2022) "The Invisible Sojourner: A Journey of Gender Recollections and Reflections" on Book of Abstracts 11th European Feminist Research Conference