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Ethics in Cyberspace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Ethics in Cyberspace

Over the last few decades information and communication technology has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our dealings with other people. Computers, in particular, have made available a host of new ways of interacting, which we have increasingly made use of. In the wake of this development a number of ethical questions have been raised and debated. Ethics in Cyberspace focuses on the consequences for ethical agency of mediating interaction by means of computers, seeking to clarify how the conditions of certain kinds of interaction in cyberspace (for example, in chat-rooms and virtual worlds) differ from the conditions of interaction face-to-face and how these differences may come to affect the behaviour of interacting agents in terms of ethics.

Persuasive Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Persuasive Technology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-07
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2010, held in Copenhagen Denmark in June 2010. The 25 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. In addition three keynote papers are included in this volume. The topics covered are emotions and user experience, ambient persuasive systems, persuasive design, persuasion profiles, designing for health, psychology of persuasion, embodied and conversational agents, economic incentives, and future directions for persuasive technology.

Health Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 421

Health Law

  • Categories: Law

Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law. Appealing to students and academic scholars alike, the text moves beyond traditional medical law frameworks to provide a broader contextual understanding of the way in which law intersects with health.

Touching the Future Technology for Autism?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Touching the Future Technology for Autism?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-05
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

International interest in the use of assistive and ambient information and communication technologies to support people with a range of cognitive impairments is growing rapidly. Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), which affect social skills, communicative abilities and behavior, are of particular interest. The number of diagnosed cases has continued to grow in recent decades, and the impairments associated with ASDs mean individuals affected are at risk of social isolation and marginalization. Although helping people with autism to overcome their difficulties has always required the joint expertise of various fields, the widely shared view is that innovative ICT may hold the key to more effici...

Innovative Technologies and Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 605

Innovative Technologies and Learning

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2021, held in November/December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 59 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Artificial Intelligence in Education; Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality in Education; Computational Thinking in Education; Design Framework and Model for Innovative learning; Education Practice Issues and Trends; Educational Gamification and Game-based Learning; Innovative Technologies and Pedagogies Enhanced Learning; Multimedia Technology Enhanced Learning; Online Course and Web-Based Environment; and Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Design, and Mathematics.

Ethics of Social Consequences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Ethics of Social Consequences

This edited volume presents new and unconventional views of many traditional moral values, such as humanity, human dignity, moral right (of life), justice and responsibility. The originality of the contributions here is their analysis of these values and approaches from the point of view of non-utilitarian consequentialism and ethics of social consequences as one of its forms. The authors present new ways of solving many contemporary ethical and moral issues, including, for example, in bioethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, teaching ethics, and cyber ethics, based on non-utilitarian consequentialism and ethics of social consequences. They also confront these approaches with other ethical theories and philosophical traditions, which serve as further incentives for the development of non-utilitarian consequentialism and ethics of social consequences in philosophical, applied and professional ethics.

Market, Ethics and Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Market, Ethics and Religion

This book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism. Few concepts are as controversial as religion and the market mechanism. Some consider religion to be in conflict with a modern rational scientific view of life, and thus as a contributory cause of harsh conflicts and a barrier to human happiness. Others consider religious beliefs as the foundation for ethics and decent behaviour. Similar, a number of neoliberal writers acclaimed the market mechanism as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind, and saw it as the main reason why rich countries became rich. Others are extremely skeptical and stress how this mechanism has result in big multinational firms with powerfully rich owners and masses of poor low-paid workers. Researchers from various fields - economists, social scientists, theologians and philosophers - handle these questions very differently, applying different methods and different ideals. This book offers a synthesis of the different viewpoints. It deals with economists’, theologians’ and philosophers’ differing thoughts about the market and its limitations.

Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health

This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major topic of discussion among leading bioethicists and scholars from related disciplines including economics, epidemiology, law, and political theory. Topics covered in this volume include responsible use of antimicrobials; control of multi-resistant hospital-acquired infections; privacy and data collection; antibiotic use in childhood and at the end of life; agricultural and veterinary sources of resistance; resistant HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria; mandatory treatment; and trade-offs between current and future generations. As the first book focused on ethical issues associated with drug resistance, it makes a timely contribution to debates regarding practice and policy that are of crucial importance to global public health in the 21st century.

Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-07-30
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  • Publisher: Springer

th The 18 International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2010) was the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, A- tralia, and North America since 1993. The focus of the conference has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and practical application. ICCS brings together researchers and practitioners in information and computer sciences as well as social science to explore novel ways that c- ceptual structures can be deployed. Arising from the research on knowledge representation and reasoning with conceptual graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include in- vations from a wider range of theories and ...

Geographic Citizen Science Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Geographic Citizen Science Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-02-04
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other ‘gentlemen scientists’ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science. The current growth and availability of citizen science projects and relevant applications to support citizen involvement is massive; every citizen has an opportunity to become a scientist and contribute to a scientific discipline, without having any professional qualifications. With geographic interfaces being the common approach to support collection, analysis and dissemination of data contributed by participants, ‘geographic citizen scie...