I’m a researcher at the University of Milan - IT - and I’m studying how technology affects identity and self perception. In particular I’m collecting qualitative interviews of people with artificial limbs or embedded systems. The aim is to develop more efficient studies about the relationship between humans and machines, considering artificial devices not just in terms of efficiency but as part of the individuals’ identity and subjectivity.
To start collecting data here’s a brief google form complete with information about use of personal data: https://forms.gle/2FdhNkPdmVMTYYNq6
The study is at the beginning and every suggestion will be appreciated.
Hey! I am doing a design project looking into the future of biohacking and what this could mean for the future of our bodies and potentially mental health. Seems as though your project is on a similar trajectory as mine and I would love to collaborate!
@mjones300: I’m not sure why @tangerineaxle linked to the crazy thread here, but it’s best forgotten. It’s a gigantic thread full of crazy posts from mentally incompetent people who - most importantly - DON’T have implants or prostheses of any kind but THINK they do - and seek help here for completely unfathomable reasons.
Please don’t base whatever research you’re undertaking on that thread: it’s kind of this forum’s pit of despair. It truly has nothing to do with us (most of us anyway).
I’d shy away from labeling them all as incompetent. There are enough people in there that I would think there are at least a few who are genuinely ill and seeking some sort of validation in their own way.
They are ALL ill as far as I can tell, which makes them mentally incompetent as a consequence. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. But the fact remains that most of those people don’t make sense and need help to reconnect with reality.
Whatever their circumstances, they are not representative of this community, is my point.
