By Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Monash University, Australia, [email protected] | Nathan Semertzidis, Monash University, Australia, [email protected] | Josh Andres, The Australian National University, Australia, [email protected] | Martin Weigel, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany, [email protected] | Suranga Nanayakkara, National University of Singapore, Singapore, [email protected] | Rakesh Patibanda, Monash University, Australia, [email protected] | Zhuying Li, Southeast University, China, [email protected] | Paul Strohmeier, Max Plank Institute fuer Informatik, Germany, [email protected] | Jarrod Knibbe, University of Melbourne, Australia, [email protected] | Stefan Greuter, Deakin University, Australia, [email protected] | Marianna Obrist, University College London, UK, [email protected] | Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab, USA, [email protected] | Dakuo Wang, IBM/Northeastern University, USA, [email protected] | Katrin Wolf, Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology, Germany, [email protected] | Liz Gerber, Northwestern University, USA, [email protected] | Joe Marshall, University of Nottingham, UK, [email protected] | Kai Kunze, Keio University, Japan, [email protected] | Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research, USA, [email protected] | Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany, [email protected] | Richard Byrne, Monash University, Australia, [email protected]
Human-Computer Integration (HInt) is an emerging new paradigm in the human-computer interaction (HCI) field. Its goal is to integrate the human body and the computational machine. This monograph presents two key dimensions of Human-Computer Integration (bodily agency and bodily ownership) and proposes a set of challenges that we believe need to be resolved in order to bring the paradigm forward. Ultimately, our work aims to facilitate a more structured investigation into human body and computational machine integration.
Human-Computer Integration (HInt) is an emerging paradigm in the human-computer interaction (HCI) field. Its goal is to integrate the human body and the computational machine. Because HInt is not an isolated area of research, the authors draw upon discussions from related perspectives, including cybernetics, augmentation, cyborgs, and wearables. While these prior works provide a basis for HInt, and some of their associated challenges also apply to HInt, the authors focus on articulating the HInt challenges that are of particular relevance to HCI.
The monograph makes three contributions: First, the authors apply two key dimensions from psychology – bodily agency and bodily ownership – to enhance our understanding of HInt systems. Second, they use these two dimensions to provide new perspectives on user integration experiences and to develop an integration systems design space. Third, they use the design space and its two dimensions to articulate HInt’s key challenges and group these challenges into four areas: design, society, identity, and technology. Ultimately, the work aims to facilitate a more structured investigation into human body and computational machine integration.