Ubiquitous computing has been continuously thinning the line between passive or end-user and active front and back-users (designers, programmers and professionals developing interfaces) through open source and server-based applications, app…Merleau-Ponty, M. (2015). Phenomenology of perception. London: Forgotten Books.
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Humberto Maturana
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Maturana, alongside Francisco Varela, developed autopoiesis theory—the idea that living systems are self-producing and self-organizing through circular, recursive processes—which fundamentally reframes how we understand cognition and perception beyond traditional input-output models. His work appears in the course bibliography in direct conversation with Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, suggesting that embodied, enactive approaches to perception are crucial for thinking through how AI systems and human users co-constitute each other in ubiquitous computing environments. This theoretical pairing enables the course to move beyond treating human-machine interaction as a simple designer-user hierarchy and instead examine it as a mutually generative, autopoietic process.
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