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This book addresses Assistive Augmentation, highlighting the design
and development of assistive technologies, user interfaces, and
interactions that seamlessly integrate with a user's mind, body,
and behavior, providing an enhanced perception. Our senses are the
dominant channel we use to perceive the world around us. Whether
they have impairments or not, people often find themselves at the
limits of their sensorial capabilities. Some seek assistive or
enhancing devices that enable them to carry out specific tasks or
even transform them into a "superhuman" with capabilities well
beyond the ordinary. The overarching topic of this book revolves
around the design and development of technologies and interfaces
that provide enhanced physical, sensorial and cognitive
capabilities: "Assistive Augmentation". The Assistive Augmentation
community convened at an interdisciplinary workshop at the 2014
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(CHI) in Toronto, Canada. The community is comprised of researchers
and practitioners who work at the junction of human-computer
interaction, assistive technology and human augmentation. This
edited volume, which represents the first tangible outcome of the
workshop, presents stimulating discussions on the challenges of
Assistive Augmentation as examined through case studies. These
studies focus on two main areas: (1) Augmented Sensors and Feedback
Modalities, and (2) Design for Assistive Augmentation.
This book addresses Assistive Augmentation, highlighting the design
and development of assistive technologies, user interfaces, and
interactions that seamlessly integrate with a user's mind, body,
and behavior, providing an enhanced perception. Our senses are the
dominant channel we use to perceive the world around us. Whether
they have impairments or not, people often find themselves at the
limits of their sensorial capabilities. Some seek assistive or
enhancing devices that enable them to carry out specific tasks or
even transform them into a "superhuman" with capabilities well
beyond the ordinary. The overarching topic of this book revolves
around the design and development of technologies and interfaces
that provide enhanced physical, sensorial and cognitive
capabilities: "Assistive Augmentation". The Assistive Augmentation
community convened at an interdisciplinary workshop at the 2014
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(CHI) in Toronto, Canada. The community is comprised of researchers
and practitioners who work at the junction of human-computer
interaction, assistive technology and human augmentation. This
edited volume, which represents the first tangible outcome of the
workshop, presents stimulating discussions on the challenges of
Assistive Augmentation as examined through case studies. These
studies focus on two main areas: (1) Augmented Sensors and Feedback
Modalities, and (2) Design for Assistive Augmentation.
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.
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