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Human-technology Integration

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Unifying Themes in Complex Systems

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Human-technology integration is the replacement of human parts and extension of human capabilities with engineered devices and substrates. Its result is hybrid biological-artificial systems. We discuss here four categories of products furthering human-technology integration: wearable computers, pervasive computing environments, engineered tissues and organs, and prosthetics, and introduce examples of currently realized systems in each category. We then note that realization of a completely artificial sytem via the path of human-technology integration presents the prospect of empirical confirmation of an aware artificially embodied system.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Boston University, USA

    Katharine M. Mullen

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, Univeristy of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210030, Rhodes Hall 814, Cincinnati, OH, 45221-0030, USA

    Ali A. Minai

  2. New England Complex Systems Institute, 238 Main Street Suite 319, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA

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Mullen, K.M. (2011). Human-technology Integration. In: Minai, A.A., Braha, D., Bar-Yam, Y. (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17635-7_31

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