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“ALWAYS ON” — DEALING WITH A CONSTANT AVAILABILITY setting. By this supervision loses partly its function as a shelter and space for trial action or rehearsal. So it is important to regulate CMC around supervision settings. c. Clients ask for computer mediated methods (e.g. telecoaching, online counselling or apps). That influences not only the medium of counselling but also its framework: Counselling might function in brief episodes or as instant counselling and might lose its distance and function as retrospective. d. Counselling becomes even more a space for social learning in an “encounter group”: As computer mediated social learning is a curtailed learning environment it becomes growingly important to offer space for social learning beside the so called social web. And beside that supervisors and coaches are also affected by blurring of boundaries and permanent availability as users and freelancers themselves. QUESTIONS OF FURTHER RESEARCH Further research and discussion should take place as smart devices wouldn’t vanish as fast as they spread. On the contrary, worldwide network coverage is growing, and by every new series devices offer a greater convergence of functions. Therefore three aspects should be named, where further work is necessary. a) Which impacts will deliver ubiquitous computing together with digitalization and artificial intelligence to the profession as a supervisor or coach? The development of speech recognition software is fast, and it’s already very tricky to detect voice response of computers (there are apps available for this purpose!) in telecommunication. Will there be automated coaching sessions answered by digital voice response? Back in 1966 Weizenbaum developed a software (“ELIZA”) simulating a psychotherapist using the technique of non-directive counselling by Carl Rogers. He was very surprised to learn how eager psychotherapists were to automate psychotherapy by this way. Even if this is still impossible, there may be use cases for simple applications like instant coachings adapting highly structured tools. b) If we accept with Rosa”? that the world is accelerating and that ubiquitous computing is a big accelerator quickly the question appears how counselling ” Hartmut Rosa, Weltbeziehungen im Zeitalter der Beschleunigung: Umrisse einer neuen Gesellschaftskritik, Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp, 2012. e 133"
