About this Research Topic
In the medical field concerning rehabilitation, healthcare, and life support, human-technology interaction fosters health by restoring or maintaining the human ability to adapt and self-manage. Based on the fusion of human, machine, and information/AI systems, Cybernics proposes cyborg-type robots that act as human counterparts, thereby reframing human-technology interaction to the extent that machines are not merely used as tools in medical care but directly contribute to curing people through interaction. Due to the focus on fostering human decision-making and action, Cybernics comes as a capability-oriented approach that follows the idea of the Internet of humans and therefore builds on a value-driven design of human-technology interaction: medical needs guide the technological design that in turn considers the humanistic dimension of interventions into humans.
Medical Cybernics publishes new empirical and theoretical work covering the fusion of human, machine, and information systems in rehabilitation, healthcare, and life support. The research topic provides a forum for researchers, clinicians, and policy-makers interested in understanding how advanced human-machine interaction fosters human agency and quality of life. Medical Cybernics hosts the introduction of new methods for implementing human-machine relations and the discussion of their social, ethical, and legal framing. This transdisciplinary approach to Cybernics requires the simultaneous formation of technological, medical, and humanistic knowledge in the design and implementation process of future cyborg-type medical robots. This research topic provides the necessary platform for merging the commonly separated disciplines into a new coherent field.
Contributions ranging from basic research on human-machine interaction to technical and clinical applications of cyborg-type robots and related business models are invited to clarify how technologies for human-machine interaction create advanced human lifeworlds.
We welcome the submission of manuscripts including, but not limited to, the following topics. Special focus will be given (but is not restricted) to:
• Cyborg-type medical, rehabilitation and assistive robots
• Support of sports and para-sports medicine, nursing, geriatric treatment
• Challenges to AI/IoH (Internet of Human) devices or apps with certified medical-device quality to support activities of daily life
• New challenges of business model development for the future of cyborg-type applications, such as robots, devices, VR/AR and apps in the field of Medical Cybernics
• Robotic-assisted tissue engineering, with emphasis on the development and production of patient-tailored neuronal tissues for the repair of sensory, motoric, and combined deficits
• Value-driven design of human-machine interaction, with emphasis on human empowerment, patient-centered design, and the social embedding of cyborg-type technologies
Submissions can include case series, observational studies, and controlled trials. To foster this research area, we invite submissions of the results of these studies, including those in preparatory stages.
Submissions can include case series, observational studies, and controlled trials. To foster this research area, we invite submissions of the results of these studies, including those in preparatory stages.
Medical Cybernics publishes new empirical and theoretical work covering the fusion of human, machine, and information systems in rehabilitation, healthcare, and life support. The research topic provides a forum for researchers, clinicians, and policy-makers interested in understanding how advanced human-machine interaction fosters human agency and quality of life. Medical Cybernics hosts the introduction of new methods for implementing human-machine relations and the discussion of their social, ethical, and legal framing. This transdisciplinary approach to Cybernics requires the simultaneous formation of technological, medical, and humanistic knowledge in the design and implementation process of future cyborg-type medical robots. This research topic provides the necessary platform for merging the commonly separated disciplines into a new coherent field.
Contributions ranging from basic research on human-machine interaction to technical and clinical applications of cyborg-type robots and related business models are invited to clarify how technologies for human-machine interaction create advanced human lifeworlds.
We welcome the submission of manuscripts including, but not limited to, the following topics. Special focus will be given (but is not restricted) to:
• Cyborg-type medical, rehabilitation and assistive robots
• Support of sports and para-sports medicine, nursing, geriatric treatment
• Challenges to AI/IoH (Internet of Human) devices or apps with certified medical-device quality to support activities of daily life
• New challenges of business model development for the future of cyborg-type applications, such as robots, devices, VR/AR and apps in the field of Medical Cybernics
• Robotic-assisted tissue engineering, with emphasis on the development and production of patient-tailored neuronal tissues for the repair of sensory, motoric, and combined deficits
• Value-driven design of human-machine interaction, with emphasis on human empowerment, patient-centered design, and the social embedding of cyborg-type technologies
Submissions can include case series, observational studies, and controlled trials. To foster this research area, we invite submissions of the results of these studies, including those in preparatory stages.
Submissions can include case series, observational studies, and controlled trials. To foster this research area, we invite submissions of the results of these studies, including those in preparatory stages.
Keywords: Cybernics, Cyborg-type robot, Rehabilitation, Sports, AI/IoH, Business model development, Tissue design, architecture and production, Tissue bioreactors, Value-driven design, Empowerment.
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