AI Medical Compendium Journal:
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Exploring cultural imaginaries of robots with children with brittle bone disease: a participatory design study.

Medical humanities
A symbiotic relationship exists between narrative imaginaries of and real-life advancements in technology. Such cultural imaginings have a powerful influence on our understanding of the potential that technology has to affect our lives; as a result, ...

Deaf futurity: designing and innovating hearing aids.

Medical humanities
One of the tenets of a posthuman vision is the eradication of disability through technology. Within this site of 'no future', as Alison Kafer describes, the disabled body is merged with artificial intelligence technology or transformed into a prosthe...

Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto.

Medical humanities
This manifesto seeks to challenge dominant narratives about the future of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Current predictions are mainly driven by technological developments-technologies usually being developed for different markets...

Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots.

Medical humanities
A growing minority of those with disabilities are people of color (POC), with, for example, autism diagnosis rates now higher for children of color than for white children in the USA. This trend underscores the need for assistive technologies, especi...

(De)troubling transparency: artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical applications.

Medical humanities
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques occupy a prominent role in medical research in terms of the innovation and development of new technologies. However, while many perceive AI as a technology of promise and hope-one that...

Recognition, collaboration and community: science fiction representations of robot carers in , and .

Medical humanities
In the 2010s, a small number of science fiction films and television series exploring the theme of the robot carer and how humans respond to them were released. This paper explores three works in this regard: the films (dir. Jake Schreier, USA 2012)...