Topic: Of Humans and Machines Entangled
When: May 27, 2021 13:00–14:00 BST
In this talk, I offer reflections on how humans and digital technologies have become intimately interwoven – entangled – through my own journey in designing computational artefacts for and with people. I use my work with autistic children and the elderly to think about how constructs such as disability, diversity or wellbeing influence what technology we build and in turn help shape these very terms and the people involved. Focusing on this mutual inter-dependency, I look to a range of philosophical theories and concepts that offer relational perspectives on humans and their machines and make some propositions for how these perspectives could shift the field of HCI more generally.
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