ABSTRACT
For Kenyon and Leigh, Human Augmentics was centered on the principles of understanding human sensory, cognitive, and physical limits, and adopting advanced technology to develop technologies that may exceed those limits. Various Human Augmentics projects have emerged from the seminar, such as SpiderSense and Audio Dilation. In addition to exploring the history and ethics of transhumanism, cyborgs, posthumanism, and other related topics, students form interdisciplinary teams to work on projects of their own invention that employ the principles of Human Augmentics. Human Augmentics is focused on the intersections between human and machine, about the information that is generated between agents, and the affordances that information provides to potentially increase agency. The challenge for Human Augmentics, whatever technologies it may involve, is in iteratively assessing consequences for human agency in the design phase as well as during testing and implementation. Human Augmentics portends an even closer relation to the machine, a cyborg manifestation, to riff on Haraway's seminal essay.
