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Technology is not just a useful tool to achieve certain goals, it is also a medium to relate to the world. The aim of this article is to examine the specific transformational power of comprehensive technical assistance systems in terms of our world relation. It applies Don Ihde’s early concepts of embodiment, hermeneutic, and background relations to today’s highly automated assistance systems and examines the interplay of human actors and the technosphere in a post-phenomenological perspective. In a lifeworld context assistance is automatically seen as a relief. Hence this article raises the question of what the burden of assistance might be.
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Ihde, D. (1979). Technics and praxis. 1. publ. Dordrecht: Reidel (Synthese library, 130).
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Gransche, B. (2018). The Burden of Assistance. A Post-phenomenological Perspective on Technically Assisted World Relations. In: Karafillidis, A., Weidner, R. (eds) Developing Support Technologies. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01836-8_7
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