July 11-13, the Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations research group of the University of Twente organized the Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations conference 2018 at the DesignLab Twente. A full conference program including abstracts of all paper presentations can be found here: phtr-2018-program-and-abstracts.pdf. (Photos (c) Patty Reyes Benavides)

Wednesday July 4, 2018 - Saturday July 7, 2018 there will be a four-day workshop on human-robot relations, in Sendai and Tokyo, focusing on human-robot relations. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/dutch-japanese-wpt2018

Just out in the proceedings of the DIS2018 conference, with a 'best paper award': Hauser, S., D. Oogjes, R. Wakkary, P.P. Verbeek (2018) An Annotated Portfolio on Doing Postphenomenology Through Research Products. In: Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2018, New York: ACM, p.p. 459-471, 978-1-4503-5198-0

Lecture at conference 'Tropenkolder' - jubileumcongres verpleegkundig specialisten in de geestelijke gezondheidszorg. "Een app die aan de hand van stemanalyse tot veertien dagen van tevoren een depressie of een psychose ziet aankomen. Voor de patiënt in de gaten heeft dat hij aan het afglijden is, geeft de app een seintje. We staan aan de vooravond … Continue reading (Dutch) Lezing ‘Het algorithme als metgezel: technologie en psychiatrie’

Nanterre, June 20 2018: lecture 'Existentializing Technology: on digital subjectivity and the technologies of the self' at conference 'Theoretical traditions and new technologies'. International Symposium, Université de Paris Nanterre, June 20-21.

June 11, Loughborough University, Institute for Design Innovation. Public lecture on Philosophy of Technology and Design between 11h00 and 12h30.

Recent Dutch column in De Ingenieur: https://www.deingenieur.nl/artikel/is-digitale-protectie-uit-te-breiden-tot-digitale-compassie

Lecture by Stelarc and discussion in DesignLab Thursday 24th of May from 4-7 pm Location: DesignLab Universiteit Twente The Australian performance artist Stelarc has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body and is well known for his pioneering work and ideas about extending the capabilities of the human body with technology. From 17th of May … Continue reading May 24: Lecture and discussion with Stelarc

The preliminary program of our Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations conference (July 11-12-13, DesignLab University of Twente) is now online: https://www.utwente.nl/en/phtr/Program