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The Burden of Assistance. A Post-phenomenological Perspective on Technically Assisted World Relations

Gransche, B.: The Burden of Assistance. A Post-phenomenological Perspective on Technically Assisted World Relations, in: Karafillidis, A., Weidner, R. (Hg.): Developing Support Technologies. Integrating Multiple Perspectives to Create Assistance that People Really Want (Biosystems & Biorobotics Series), Cham: Springer (2018), S. 75-82.

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Abstract

Technology is not just a useful tool to achieve certain goals, it is also a medium to relate to the world. The aim of this article is to examine the specific transformational power of comprehensive technical assistance systems in terms of our world relation. It applies Don Ihde’s early concepts of embodiment, hermeneutic, and background relations to today’s highly automated assistance systems and examines the interplay of human actors and the technosphere in a post-phenomenological perspective. In a lifeworld context assistance is automatically seen as a relief. Hence this article raises the question of what the burden of assistance might be.

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In the wake of increasingly personalised systems that feature more and more sensors and that are capable of machine learning using more and more data, also known as big data, the users’ interpreting capacity is decreasing while the systems’ interpreting capacity keeps increasing. 

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