Stephen Kell's research while affiliated with University of Kent and other places

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... He believes that science and technology could be enlisted in the service of more efficacious convivial tools and designs, so that technology serves humans rather than humans being at the service of machines and their societal instrumentations. Some scholars already explored the implications of conviviality for HCI and design (see e.g., [23,39,63,88]), pointing out the importance of tools that guarantee freedom and autonomy, eliminating the need for slaves or masters, but limiting the freedom tools are afforded when the freedom of some comes at the expense of the freedom of others or for the capacities of the environment. Computing technologies certainly expand the freedom (of some), but because of the violence and destruction associated with the mining for technology's building blocks, this freedom comes at the expense of nature and of the freedom of communities impacted in different ways by mining. ...