An Enactivist Approach to Human-Computer Interaction: Bridging the Gap Between Human Agency and Affordances
HCI International 2025 – Late Breaking Papers 2026 Angjelin Hila
Emerging paradigms in XR, AI, and BCI contexts necessitate novel theoretical frameworks for understanding human autonomy and agency in HCI. Drawing from enactivist theories of cognition, we conceptualize human agents as self-organizing, operationally closed systems that actively enact their cognitive domains through dynamic interaction with their environments. To develop measurable variables...