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1Achieving a Self-Satisfied Intimate Life Through Computer Technologies?In Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa & Richard Stone (eds.), The Realizations of the Self, Springer. pp. 233-247. 2018.This work aims to understand how a subject can be sentimentally and intimately self-realized by having a relationship with other people through computer technologies. We will analyze the relations binding together the subjects when their “presence” and “interactions” are digitally mediated thanks to a phenomenological analysis. In the first part, we will highlight the differences of using digital devices instead of having face-to-face meetings, especially in virtual worlds. In the second part, w…Read more
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42Phenomenology, Pokémon Go, and Other Augmented Reality Games: A Study of a Life Among Digital ObjectsHuman Studies 41 (2): 211-232. 2018.The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects on the everyday world of actual Augmented Reality games which introduce digital objects in our surroundings from a phenomenological point of view. Augmented Reality is a new technology aiming to merge digital and real objects, and it is becoming pervasively used thanks to the application for mobile devices Pokémon Go by Niantic. We will study this game and other similar applications to shed light on their possible effects on our lives and on our ev…Read more
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32Teledildonics and New Ways of “Being in Touch”: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Use of Haptic Devices for Intimate RelationsScience and Engineering Ethics 23 (3): 801-823. 2017.The aim of this paper is to analyse teledildonics from a phenomenological perspective in order to show the possible effects they will have on ourselves and on our society. The new way of using digital technologies is to merge digital activities with our everyday praxes, and there are already devices which enable subjects to be digitally connected in every moment of their lives. Even the most intimate ones are becoming mediated by devices such as teledildonics which digitally provide a tactual st…Read more
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19Teledildonics and Digital IntimacyGlimpse 18 103-110. 2017.Computer technologies are riding a golden trend in terms of innovation. New computer devices are emerging and they directly aim to extend the subject’s living body beyond the natural limits of its mere flesh. Some of these devices can be used to recreate perceptual organs in other places of the world. Of special interest are teledildonic devices, remotely controlled dildos, which provide tactual sensations that simulate part of a subject’s body as being relocated in another place, enabling a sub…Read more
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51Augmented reality and ubiquitous computing: the hidden potentialities of augmented realityAI and Society 31 (1): 17-28. 2016.
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43Technology, Phenomenology and the Everyday World: A Phenomenological Analysis on How Technologies Mould Our WorldHuman Studies 39 (2): 189-216. 2016.Technology always provides a new perception of the world. However, it is not clear when technology produces “mere” new informations and when it provides something more such as a production of new objects in our world which start to “live” around us. The aim of this paper is to study how technology shapes our surrounding world. The questions which we are going to answer are: Is it really adding new objects to our world? If yes, does every technology have this potentiality? We are going to tackle …Read more
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19The AR glasses’ “non-neutrality”: their knock-on effects on the subject and on the giveness of the objectEthics and Information Technology 17 (2): 125-137. 2015.This work focuses on augmented reality glasses and its aim is to analyse the knock-on effects on our everyday world and ourselves yielded by this kind of technology. Augmented reality is going to be the most diffused technology in our everyday life in the near future, especially augmented reality mounted on glasses. This near future is not only possible, but it seems inevitable following the vertiginous development of AR. There are numerous kinds of different prototypes that are going to come ou…Read more
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4Augmented Reality, Phenomenology and the Disclosure of Our "Personal" CreatorGlimpse 15 55-58. 2014.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityAssociate Professor
University of Pisa
PhD, 2014
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Technology |
Perception and Phenomenology |
Areas of Interest
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |