Séminaire ayant lieu dans le cadre du Doctorat en informatique cognitive, en alliance avec le centre de recherche CRIA et l'ISC  

Peter HANCOCK

Jeudi le 20 avril 2023 à 10h30

PK-5115 (possible d'y assister à distance, pour ce faire, vous devez vous inscrire ici) 

Titre : The Machine That Will Soon Need No Minding

Résumé

Ergonomics is the discipline focused on the “laws of work’. Any future research endeavor will have to keep re-examining what is meant by ‘work’. The future of work may prove to be a bleak one. The driving economic forces embrace the greater utility of automated and increasingly autonomous systems. Human-centered endeavors like Ergonomics often find themselves in opposition to efficiency/profit imperatives. More optimistic approaches seek to harmonize these conflicting forces, envisaging harmonious cooperation between humans and machines of increasing ‘intelligence’ and capability. I will describe why that positive narrative is unlikely, at least within the foreseeable future.

Biographie 

Peter A. HANCOCK, Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida (UCF). He directs the MIT2 Research Laboratories. The author of more than 1,000 refereed scientific articles, chapters and reports as well more than twenty books, including Transports of Delight: How Technology Materializes Human Imagination (Springer 2018).

References  

Hancock, P. A. (2022). Machining the mind to mind the machine. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 1-18.

Hancock, P. A. (2019). The humane use of human beings? Applied ergonomics, 79, 91-97.