Human-centered computing: thinking in and out of the box

The motion picture "AI" lets the AI profession squirm in the glory of misrepresentation. It\´s not fun, especially when one\´s field suffers from waves of innovation/hype/backlash. The problem is that the film "AI" reinforces the dream of the android just when many who work toward "truly" intelligent technologies are cutting loose from the dream\´s more surrealistic aspects. People are asking new questions: Is the Turing test really the right kind of standard? If not, what is better? Must we define intelligence in reference to humans? Must intelligent technology be boxes chock-full of this thing we call intelligence, or should it operate as a "cognitive prosthesis" to amplify or extend human perceptual, cognitive and collaborative capabilities? Must intelligence always be in some individual thing - either a headbone or a box - or is intelligence a system property that is definable only in terms of the triple of humans-machines-contexts?.