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HUMAN AUGMENTATION [1 record]

Record 1 2015-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Technology (Informatics)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Ethics and Morals
OBS

[Human augmentation] relies on the coupling of a human or nonhuman actor with a computational device that participates in the processing of information. Rather than building self-contained machines, machines and humans are coupled together into a new hybrid actor. Rather than leaving the body behind, real world information and computer generated information are brought together, allowing the individual to simultaneously affect and be affected by both realities ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Technologie de l'information (Informatique)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Éthique et Morale
CONT

Un cas particulier d’augmentation humaine : l’hybridation technologique, le couplage entre l’homme et la machine.

Spanish

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