?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=On+Becoming+A+Cyborg%3A+A+Reflection+On+Articulation+Work%2C+Embodiment%2C+Agency+and+Abelism&rft.creator=Rode%2C+JA&rft.description=This+article+auto-ethnographically+explores+my+experiences+over+the+course+of+several+years+as+I+transitioned+from+able+bodied%2C+to+frequent+cane+user%2C+who+used+a+scooter+to+attend+academic+conferences%2C+to+a+user+of+robotic+telepresence.+I+discuss+the+different+affordances+that+those+technologies+allow%2C+issues+of+embodiment%2C+articulation+work%2C+agency%2C+and+ableism.+The+telepresence+robot+did+not+%E2%80%9Cfix+me%E2%80%9D+as+is+often+implicated+with+the+medical+model+of+disability+(Thomson%2C+1997)%2C+or+augment+my+experience+to+make+it+more+palatable+to+the+able-bodied+majority.+Instead%2C+it+allowed+me+to+make+conscious+trade-offs+between+the+affordances+of+my+corporeal+body+and+an+emergent+cyborg-self+in+the+context+of+a+degenerative+auto-immune+disease.+Thus%2C+in+writing+this+article+it+is+my+intention+to+improve+the+social+acceptance+of+the+disabled+cyborg-person%2C+and+through+improved+design+to+I+aim+to+afford+disabled+persons+choices.&rft.publisher=Springer&rft.contributor=Langdon%2C+P&rft.contributor=Lazar%2C+J&rft.contributor=Heylighen%2C+A&rft.contributor=Dong%2C+H&rft.date=2018&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A+Langdon%2C+P+and+Lazar%2C+J+and+Heylighen%2C+A+and+Dong%2C+H%2C+(eds.)+Breaking+Down+Barriers%3A+Usability%2C+Accessibility+and+Inclusive+Design.++(pp.+pp.+239-249).++Springer%3A+Cham%2C+Switzerland.+(2018)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10040920%2F1%2FOn-becoming-a-cyborg-UCL-final.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10040920%2F&rft.rights=open