Human Machine Epistemology Survey
This addresses the challenge of designing couplings between biological and artificial systems for practitioners in fields like medicine and engineering, but it is incremental as it builds on existing traditions.
The paper tackled the problem of multidisciplinary convergence in Human-Artefact Systems by investigating how specialists conceive these systems, revealing that some align with integrativist views through a questionnaire and statistical analysis.
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.