Human Machine Epistemology Survey

TL;DR

This survey explores how experts from various disciplines perceive Human-Artifact Systems, highlighting differences and commonalities in their conceptualizations and the influence of traditional views.

Contribution

It introduces a novel questionnaire and analysis to understand disciplinary perspectives on Human-Artifact Systems and their relation to integrativist approaches.

Findings

Some specialists adopt integrativist views.

Disciplinary differences influence system conception.

The survey reveals diverse conceptual frameworks.

Abstract

Pluridisciplinar convergence is a major problem that had emerged with Human-Artefact Systems and so-called " Augmented Humanity " as academical fields and even more as technical fields. Problems come mainly from the juxtaposition of two very different types of system, a biological one and an artificial one. Thus, conceiving and designing the multiple couplings between them has become a major difficulty. Some came with reductionnist solutions to answer these problems but since we know that a biological system and a technical system are different, this approach is limited from its beginning. Using a specifically designed questionnaire and statistical analysis we determined how specialists (medical practitioners, ergonomists and engineers) in the domain conceive themselves what is a Human-Artifact System and how they relate to existent traditions and showed that some of them relate to the integrativist views.