Frontiers in Human Robot Interaction Research, as imagined by me, a disabled researcher who's tired of your shit. 🧵
1) A socially assistive robot for autistic people but instead of "correcting" autistic "social deficits" it absolutely roasts other people about their own ableism.
2) A reconfigured amazon alexa that mounts to a power chair that yells at people when they do something rude. "Do not touch!", "Talk to me, not my PCA.", "Bark Bark!", "*cicada noises*"
3) I have had this idea for an #altCHI piece where I bring a robot with me and it "corrects" my autistic traits while I present and I had this whole delusion that people would see how dystopic it was but then I realized they would think it was "working" so... that's horrifying.
4) a "classroom behavior management" intervention delivered on the audience of a #HCI conference. They get to see their nametags go to the "red zone" for tapping their legs or clicking their pens or scrolling their phones.
5) A robot that follows doctors around and any time they complain about anything in the privacy of their own homes it just goes "have you tried getting more exercise?"
6) a robotic goose that chases people while honking for telling inspirational stories about that time they offered unsolicited assistance to a disabled person
7) the goose again but it drops out if the sky screeching anytime you ask an amputee what happened to them
8) just the goose. All disabled people want is a robotic goose assistant that honks at assholes.
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