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Designing Systems in the Digital Immortality Era

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DIS '18 Companion: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

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Society is undergoing a relentless digital transformation process. This process is creating a digital copy of every entity present in the physical world and these digital goods will be inherited through centuries establishing a direct link between distant generations. Advances in artificial intelligence make the promise for future whole brain emulation enabling the possibility of uploading the human mind on a digital system. This would enable the possibility of interacting with immortal digital clones of deceased people. This paper wants to start investigating the consequences of the emergence of the concept of digital immortality.

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Albers RSadeghian SLaschke MHassenzahl M(2023)Dying, Death, and the Afterlife in Human-Computer Interaction. A Scoping Review.Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581199(1-16)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581199
Caon M(2019)Designing Systems for the Digital Immortality of Intangible Cultural HeritageHuman Interaction and Emerging Technologies10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_122(783-789)Online publication date: 25-Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_122

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Designing Systems in the Digital Immortality Era
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May 2018

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ISBN:9781450356312

DOI:10.1145/3197391

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Albers RSadeghian SLaschke MHassenzahl M(2023)Dying, Death, and the Afterlife in Human-Computer Interaction. A Scoping Review.Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581199(1-16)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581199
Caon M(2019)Designing Systems for the Digital Immortality of Intangible Cultural HeritageHuman Interaction and Emerging Technologies10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_122(783-789)Online publication date: 25-Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_122

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