ethics
Professor Richard Aldrich (University of Warwick) talks about Privacy in the 21st century.
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Much research at the intersection of technology and ethics focuses on the impact of technological developments and innovation on wider society. This discussion considers the intersection of ethics and technology from the opposite direction; that is, how technology itself can support the ethical participation of people – particularly children and young people – in research.
Some expensive ICT devices, such as iPods and iPads, have been shown to have developmental and educational benefits when used in the right environment and with the right software.
The Hidden Lives Revealed website contains information from The Children's Society about children's homes in the period 1881-1981, together with anonymised case histories of children in care during this time. Some limited user interaction with the site is possible, by two methods: adding comments to a blog, and sending e-cards containing a picture from the site and a message from the user.
Personal Health Monitoring describes a broad group of emerging health ICT developed in response to changing demographics and health needs in the EU. Based upon a review of academic literature, this contribution to the FRRIICT repository defines PHM and identifies ethical implications requiring further consideration by the ICT community. Examples and controversies of the technology are reviewed, which suggest a greater potential user audience and scope of ethical issues requiring consideration than reflected in current discourse. PHM enables pervasive collection of sensitiv
Personal health monitoring (PHM) systems capable of gathering pervasive physiological and behavioural data are currently emerging to supplement existing medical resources. As a technology designed to operate in the private sphere PHM can digitise, record and analyse the behaviours and health of users. Current PHM ethics discourse reflects an overly narrow conceptualisation of privacy, at the cost of ignoring privacy implications related to social categorisation and the disempowerment of users.
In this paper, we present the ethical issues that emerged while designing, developing and testing HeartLink. HeartLink is a system designed for providing remote crowd-support during challenging and sustained physical activities such as long-distance running. Information about the activity (e.g. speed, distance completed) and the athletes’ bio-data (e.g. heart rate) are shared amongst participants and on-line viewers on social networks through smartphones. On-line viewers can also ‘cheer’ the participants by pressing a specifically designed button.
Emerging information and communications technologies enable individuals and communities to collect and share granular, accurate, and sometimes personal data about their lives and environments, raising numerous challenges for socially responsible innovation. To encourage socially responsible data collection, ICT designers must incorporate discussions of ethics, values, and social responsibilities into their design process.
This paper presents a four point guidance to analyse the ethical issues in the development of serious games. We demonstrate its application using an example of recording user data during play of a serious game for healthcare trainees. We recommend further testing of this guidance for wider applicability and relevance.
One aspect of the INDECT project is aimed at creating automated security and anti-terrorism surveillance systems. It aims to do this by creating algorithms that will process video, audio and other inputs in order to detect potential threats. These algorithms are intended eventually to do this processing without human intervention.
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