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Abstract

In this article, Daniela Wentz examines digital tools dedicated to the therapy of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The focus is on wearables based on Google's smart glasses, which aim at teaching social interaction skills to autistic children. The paper critically analyses the role of images, their operational logics and datafication for this heterogeneous human-machine constellation and shows that these technologies are hardly innocent. On the contrary, the glasses are a prime example of what Shoshana Zuboff terms »rendition«, and of the commercialisation of dis/ability in surveillance capitalism.