Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles (The MIT Press)

Physique-centered computing now goes past the “wearable” to embody implants, bionic know-how, and ingestible sensors—applied sciences that time to hybrid our bodies and blurred boundaries between human, pc, and synthetic intelligence platforms. Such applied sciences promise to reconfigure the connection between our bodies and their setting, enabling new sorts of physiological interfacing, embodiment, and productiveness. Utilizing the time period embodied computing to explain these gadgets, this guide affords essays by practitioners and students from quite a lot of disciplines that discover the accompanying moral, social, and conceptual points.

The contributors look at applied sciences that vary from health screens to neural implants to a toe-controlled mouse. They focus on matters that embody the coverage implications of ingestibles; the invasive potential of physique space networks, which transmit information from bodily gadgets to the web; cyborg experiments, linking a human mind on to a pc; the evolution of the ankle monitor and different intrusive digital monitoring gadgets; fashiontech, which affords customers an aura of “cool” in trade for his or her information; and the “closing frontier” of technosupremacism: applied sciences that search to learn our minds. Taken collectively, the essays present the significance of contemplating embodied applied sciences of their social and political contexts slightly than in remoted subjectivity or in purely quantitative phrases.

Contributors

Roba Abbas, Andrew Iliadis, Gary Genosko, Suneel Jethani, Deborah Lupton, Katina Michael, M. G. Michael, Marcel O’Gorman, Maggie Orth, Isabel Pedersen, Christine Perakslis, Kevin Warwick, Elizabeth Wissinger