Four Ironies of Self-quantification: Wearable Technologies and the Quantified Self.
Bainbridge's well known "Ironies of Automation" (in: Johannsen, Rijnsdorp (eds) Analysis, design and evaluation of man–machine systems. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 129–135, 1983. 10.1016/B978-0-08-029348-6.50026-9) laid out a set of fundamental criticisms surrounding the promises of automation that, eve...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 1477 - 1499 |
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