Nicola Liberati's research while affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other places

... Moreover, the theory of technological mediation has a very strong practical capacity by being able to highlight the relations connecting people, the world, and technologies. It has already been successfully applied to such domains as medicine (Kudina & de Boer, 2021;Mykhailov, 2022), education (Jubien, 2014;Adams and Turnville, 2018), instrumental design (Verbeek, 2006), AI (Wellner, 2021), intimacy (Liberati, 2019(Liberati, , 2020a(Liberati, , 2020b(Liberati, , 2021b(Liberati, , 2022, and scientific instruments (Ihde, 2009;Rosenberger, 2009). ...

... The various technological elements within NAT encompass a series of processes, e.g., data collection, signal processing, and machine learning, which are concealed from the user. These unseen processes constitute what Husserl would have termed the inner horizon of the NAT system (Mykhailov & Liberati, 2022). This inner horizon can only be experienced by the person indirectly when they interact with the user interface; therefore, feedback from the NAT interface is the primary conduit for any technological mediation of SRP. ...

... In the Design Phase, students focused on a need they discovered in their scenarios after the exploration phase. In our opinion a lot more can be done with addressing the responsibility of Designers regarding their creation (Eggink et al., 2020). A design is at risk of becoming one-sided, especially when real (future) stakeholders do not exist yet (Dorrestijn, Van der Voort & Verbeek, 2014), and tools to understand the influence on people can be quite suitable. ...

... For example, one limitation of this work is that the inquiry relied on participants' subjective perceptions of the organization's InfoSec policy. As a result, participants may hold different views, thoughts, and understandings of the statement items used during the sorting process (Gauttier & Liberati, 2021), thus influencing their ranking of responses and the follow-on data analysis and interpretation. However, unlike R-methodological measurement techniques, the researcher does not define or impose meaning on the statements a priori in Q, and one expects the meaning to be self-referential and interpreted individually (Gauttier & Liberati, 2021;Ramlo, 2021b). ...

... In the case of the educator, I will focus on some approaches from the smart pedagogy and possible ethical issues that might arise within their 4 Except for the issues mentioned above it is important to point out issues that are more closely related to various discussions from the field of today's philosophy of technology. Among such issues it is worth pointing out the problems of technological intentionality of various digital environments (Mykhailov & Liberati, 2022), mediating role of contemporary technologies (Liberati, 2020;Mykhailov, 2020;Wellner, 2020), ethical problems of responsible design and innovations (Bosschaert & Blok, 2022), etc. ...

... LBGs are a special category of games as they are inherently linked to the real world. They augment our surroundings with a virtual layer which is directly tied to real-world locations [41,53]. This results in a two-way connection as the real world becomes an integral part of gameplay, whereas the virtual layer augments the world with imaginary features. ...

... This could easily forge a gap between our true, physical selves and our virtual data selves. After all, the data selves are not real and cannot substitute for the true selves because the data selves are just the representation of subjects (Liberati 2018). ...

... The Alterity relation describes how the person relates to feedback from NAT as a technological actor (Ihde, 1975(Ihde, , 1990. From the perspective of the user, this Alterity relation is characterised by four attributes: (1) selectivity, i.e., one aspect or dimension of lived experience is represented by feedback, (2) reflexivity, i.e., feedback from the system is self-referential, (3) reactivity, i.e., feedback changes in response to changes in user state or intention in real-time, and (4) vulnerability, i.e., neurophysiological sensors can access dimensions of human experience that are concealed from other people (Liberati & Nagataki, 2019). As stated in the previous section, the presentation of feedback at the user interface must be reconciled or consolidated with SRP, a process that bears similarities to the act of double-embodiment described by Buongiorno (2019), where technology mediates the first-person experience of internal states like cognition and emotion (Liberati, 2019). ...

... Achieving performance as near to that of a human is achievable through creating cognitive architectures that take motivation, emotion, and personality into account [3]. It's widely believed that wearing technology equipment connected to one another could produce "Borg-eye and the We-I" creatures [4]. There are a number of routes to explore when it comes to the economic and societal impacts of AI decision-making. ...

... From the interest in the "informational" connotation where the data processed were the most relevant elements in the analysis of digital technologies (Floridi, 2014), now the development focuses on the relation digital technologies have to our emotions. For example, digital technologies become more bodily related by being "always-on," mounted on us, and intimate (Bell et al., 2003;Fredette et al., 2012), and they are so intimate it is possible to think of people having sexual intercourse with and through digital technologies like in the case of sex robots and teledildonics (Behrendt, 2020;Levy, 2009;Liberati, 2018c;Mackenzie, 2018;Sparrow, 2019Sparrow, , 2020Rigotti, 2020;Weiss, 2020;Fosch-Villaronga & Poulsen, 2020;Liberati, 2017Liberati, , 2020Balistreri, 2018). However, even if these technologies are clearly becoming intertwined with our intimate life, their effects on our society are not clear, and it is not clear also the framework we can use to analyze these effects. ...