articleACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionNov 19, 2019Closed access

Entanglement HCI The Next Wave?

CFChristopher Frauenberger

TU Wien

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Abstract

This article argues that our intimate entanglement with digital technologies is challenging the foundations of current HCI research and practice. Our relationships to virtual realities, artificial intelligence, neuro-implants or pervasive, cyberphysical systems generate ontological uncertainties, epistemological diffusion and ethical conundrums that require us to consider evolving the current research paradigm. I look to post-humanism and relational ontologies to sketch what I call Entanglement HCI in response. I review selected theories—Actor-Network Theory, Post-Phenomenology, Object-Oriented Ontology, Agential Realism—and their existing influences on HCI literature. Against this background, I develop…

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  • Quantum entanglement
  • Epistemology
  • Framing (construction)
  • Posthumanism
  • Ontology
  • Performative utterance
  • Sketch
  • Actor–network theory
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