Volume 24, Issue 1
(2024)
Social Robotics in Health and Social Care
‘Technology’ and ‘care’ are often seen as inhabiting two different spheres of human endeavour. But, increasingly technologies including ‘smart homes’, monitoring devices, algorithmic decision-making and social robotics are being incorporated into contemporary care activities. This special issue focuses on social robots, and presents a number of European perspectives on what they might mean for care, today and into the future. The use (or not) of social robots and related technologies raises many issues, not least what we mean by ‘care’ itself.
Articles
1. Introduction to Special Edition
John Pender and Perry Share
2. PRoSPEro Overview
John Pender and Perry Share
3.Ethical complexities within the appearance and usage of social robots: A scoping review
Mads Lund Anderson and Heike Felzmann
4. Robotic babies - Data, didactics and ethics in social work
Mads Lund Andersen, Vivi Friis Søgaard, Karin Christiansen, Heike Felzmann, Almundena Navas, and Miriam Abietar
5.Meeting the attachment needs of nursing home residents with dementia
Lucia Carragher, Gemma Jones, Ann Marron, and Laura Ballantine
6.Can social robot teaching assistants innovate the Irish primary education system
John Pender and Debbie Woodward
7. Practice report: Social robots help social clients become more independent and creates new ‘client-professional’ relations
Hans Jørgen Niewald, Maria Bisgaard Fabricius, and Mette Toft
8. Facilitating reflection on social robots in care: ethics and pedagogy
Heike Felzmann, Almudena Nava, Miriam Abietar, Esperanza Meri, Karin Christiansen, Mads Lund Andersen, and Vivi Søgaard