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August 14, 2020

Ethics in design: Social care robots

Social care robots carry the promise of constant accompaniment of the daily needs of people, while reducing the costs of human supervision. Potential areas of application include care of the vulnerable populations, such as the elderly and people with special needs, in hospital care or in education. However, some are concerned that replacing human caregivers with robots runs the risk of oversimplifying human relationships and reducing the altruism and empathy. This exercise deals with the question of to how to design robots that promote the values of care and sociality.

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Olya Kudina

February 15, 2022

Changing Roles in Medical Care: Haptic Surgical Robots

Training with haptic robots may reduce mistakes by allowing doctors to have more practice before they work on human beings. However, they do not provide training in interaction, patient care or familiarity with living and embodied subjects, though perhaps it is unclear how important this is in current medical training. Haptic robots are also more expensive for more highly sensitive technology, and this may or may not deliver on investment. This case allows students to consider how much virtual training will alter the experience of a surgical education and what the pros and cons of these new technologies may include

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Miranda Nell

October 7, 2019

Responsible Innovation: Ethics, Safety and Technology - 2nd edition

This textbook is based on the MOOC Responsible Innovation offered by the TU Delft. It provides a framework to reflect on the ethics and risks of new technologies. How can we make sure that innovations do justice to social and ethical values? How can we minimize (unknown)risks? The book explains: •The concept and importance of responsible innovation for society •Key ethical concepts and considerations to analyse the risks of new technologies •Different types of innovation (e.g. radical, niche, incremental, frugal) •Roadmap for Responsible Innovation by Industry •The concept of Value Sensitive Design (VSD) It includes a link to all the web lectures as well as case studies ranging from care robots and nuclear energy to Artificial Intelligence and self-driving vehicles.

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Joost Groot Kormelink

2017

Responsible innovation: From MOOC to book

This textbook is based on the MOOC Responsible Innovation offered by the TU Delft. It provides a framework to reflect on the ethics and risks of new technologies. How can we make sure that innovations do justice to social and ethical values? How can we minimize (unknown)risks? The book explains: • The concept and importance of responsible innovation for society • Key ethical concepts and considerations to analyse the risks of new technologies • Different types of innovation (e.g. radical, niche, incremental, frugal) • Roadmap for Responsible Innovation by Industry • The concept of Value Sensitive Design (VSD) It includes a link to all the web lectures as well as case studies ranging from care robots and nuclear energy to Artificial Intelligence and self-driving vehicles.

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Joost Groot Kormelink

October 18, 2022

Samenwerkingsopdrachten Kennislijn - gezond ouder worden deel 4

Samenwerkingsopdrachten voor studenten die doorstromen van mbo-v naar hbo-v, leerjaar 1. Dit document bevat opdrachten en extra informatie die de student per kennislijnweek nodig heeft om de leerstof van de kennislijn eigen te maken. De student gebruikt dit tijdens de werkgroepen en in zelfstudietijd.

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C.A. van Winden