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Distributed Human-Machine Systems: Progress
and Prospects
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
jbradshaw@ihmc.us
Advances in neurophysiological and cognitive science research have fueled a surge
of research aimed at more effectively combining human and machine capabilities.
In this talk we will give and overview of progress and prospects for four current
thrusts of technology development resulting from this research: brain-machine
interfaces, robotic prostheses and orthotics, cognitive and sensory prostheses,
and software and robotic assistants. Following the overview, we will highlight
the unprecedented social ethics issues that arise in the design and deployment of
such technologies, and how they might be responsibly considered and addressed.
