Ubiquitous computing in the workplace : what ethical issues? an interdisciplinary perspective /: what ethical issues? an interdisciplinary perspective. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Céline Ehrwein Nihan, editors.
• Editors: Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina; Ehrwein Nihan, Céline
• Contents: ""Preface""; ""Organizing Committee""; ""Contents""; ""Part IPresent Ubiquitous ComputingDevelopments in the Workplace""; ""1 An Integrated System for Helping Disabled and Dependent People: AGALZ, AZTECA, and MOVI-MAS Projects""; ""Abstract""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Multi-agent Architecture Approach""; ""2.1 PANGEA Platform""; ""3 The AZTECA Project""; ""3.1 Motivation""; ""3.2 System Overview""; ""3.2.1 Proximity Activation System""; ""3.2.2 Translation Tool""; ""3.2.3 Learning and Monitoring TV""; ""4 The AGALZ Project""; ""4.1 Motivation""; ""4.2 System Overview"" ""5 The MOVI-MAS Project""""5.1 Motivation""; ""5.2 System Overview""; ""6 Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""2 Working Garment Integrating Sensor Applications Developed Within the PROeTEX Project for Firefighters""; ""Abstract""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 General Concept of the PROeTEX Project""; ""2.1 Background""; ""2.2 Concept""; ""3 The Smart Garments Developed in the PROeTEX Project""; ""4 The Tests of the Firefighter Garments""; ""5 Outlook and Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""Part IICross-disciplinary Perspectiveon Ethical Issues"" ""3 The Question of Ethics in Ambient Intelligence""""Abstract""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Basic Questions of the Ethical Discourse""; ""3 The Vision of Ambient Intelligence""; ""4 The Basic Problem of Smart Systems: The Loss of Obtrusiveness""; ""5 The Anthropological Dimension of the Loss of Resistance""; ""6 Exemplification: The Dialectic of Relief and Incapacitation by the Application of AAL Systems""; ""7 R00E9sum00E9""; ""References""; ""4 Ethical Issues in Ubiquitous Computing -- Three Technology Assessment Studies Revisited""; ""Abstract""; ""1 Introduction"" ""2 Materials and Method""""3 Results""; ""3.1 Autonomy and Self-determination""; ""3.2 Responsibility""; ""3.3 Distributive Justice""; ""4 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""5 Socio-ethical Issues of Ubicomp: Societal Trends, Transparency, and Information Control""; ""Abstract""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Intelligent Workplace Environments Enabled by Ubicomp""; ""2.1 Case 1: UK Road Construction""; ""2.1.1 Transparency""; ""2.1.2 Liability""; ""2.2 Case 2: Tracing Luxury Goods""; ""2.2.1 Responsibility and Accountability""; ""3 The Bigger Picture: What Societal Trends?"" ""4 Ethical Challenges in Introducing Ubicomp""""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""6 Ubiquitous Computing in the Workplace: Ethical Issues Identified by the Interdisciplinary IWE and HRM Research Group""; ""Abstract""; ""1 Conceptual and Epistemological Framework""; ""1.1 IWEs: Reality or Utopia?""; ""1.2 What Comes First? IWE and Moral Values: A Reciprocal and Dynamical Relation""; ""1.3 Who Is (Primarily) Concerned? Identification of the Stakeholders and Clarification of Their Status""; ""1.4 Assumptions Regarding the Attitude of the Stakeholders Toward IWE""
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 004.6; Engineering; Ubiquitous computing; Work environment; Computer networks -- Moral and ethical aspects; COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy; COMPUTERS -- Computer Science; COMPUTERS -- Data Processing; COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General; COMPUTERS -- Information Technology; COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory; COMPUTERS -- Reference; Computer networks -- Moral and ethical aspects; Ubiquitous computing; Work environment; Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Philosophy -- Reference; Artificial intelligence; Philosophy; Artificial intelligence; Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319134529; 3319134523; 3319134515; 9783319134512
• Related ISBNs: 9783319134512
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