Young and old alike believe that the human experience could gain something if better informed about up-coming technologies. Learning about them at an early stage helps in making key decisions about one’s personal future. Although the approach is somewhat individual and devoted to those concerned, collectively oriented health and entertainment will gain from observing individual practices in the matter. Government policy incorporating emergent technology progress through monitoring will renew itself in a relevant way.
However, in the name of progress people are increasingly willing to accept risk ; the possible downfall of this movement is its ability to promote taking risks. But then again, could we or would we want to stop it ? If we are to enhance the human experience, the pros and cons of each situation must be considered. Modifying or augmenting humans surely raises a certain number of issues. What are they ? What aspect of life should one proceed to enhance ? Which sectors or issues should become priority elements ? Which academic disciplines are involved and why ? What limits technological change ? Does one have an acceptance threshold ? If so, how would one express it ? What are the long term implications of enhancement ? Establishing a typology of possible applications and their contexts would be desirable for this symposium on enhancing members of our society.
The following non-exhaustive topics
Definitions of enhancement
Robot companions for citizens
Jungling multiple identities
Advanced interfaces for increasing social presence
Augmented health
Epistemology of tech. innovation
Care-giving robots
Psychological analysis of acceptance
Augmented Well-being
Ubiquitous internet or computing
Social roles in emerging tech. contexts
Holistic, pragmatic and systemic approaches to resolving well-being difficulties
Augmented Context-Awareness
Communication enabling and enhancing tech.
Incommunicability
Human factors psychology and needs assessment
Mind/body problem
New worlds and belief revision
Moral and ethical dimensions of enhancement
Hybrid engineering
Progress and technological obsolescence
Co-constructed experiences
Interventionism or Science policy issues
The notions of Self or Identity in human experience
Public information points and communication devices
Technological Singularity success or failure
Roles of otherhood in one’s experiences
Cognitive enhancement
Theoretical controversies
Emergent intentional states
The intersection of the Arts, design and technology
Transhumanistic stances
Augmented emotion, etc.
Contact :
Colin T. SCHMIDT
Le Mans University & Arts et Metiers ParisTech Lab
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