Design Fictions: A Tool for Debating Societal, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Personal and Pervasive Health Systems
Date
2016-12-01Acceptance date
2016
Type
Conference proceedings
Publisher
Springer
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The potential benefits offered by health-related technologies are counterpoised by the societal, legal and ethical challenges concomitant with the pervasive monitoring of people necessitated by such technological interventions. Through the ProtoPolicy research project we explored the production and use of design fictions as a tool for debating the societal, legal and ethical dimensions of personal health systems. Two design fictions were co-created and tested in a series of design workshops with community groups based in Lancashire and Cornwall, UK. A thematic analysis of a debate among older people from the Lancaster group on the Smart Object Therapist design fiction highlighted societal and ethical issues relevant to personal health system design. We conclude that ethics like ‘usability’ may be usefully based on engagement with directly or indirectly implicated publics and should not be designed into innovation by experts alone.
Journal/conference proceeding
International Summit on eHealth Budapest, Hungary, June 14–16, 2016;
Citation
Tsekleves, E., Darby, A., Whicher, A. and Swiatek, P. (2017) 'Design Fictions: A Tool for Debating Societal, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Personal and Pervasive Health Systems'. In: Giokas, K., Bokor, L. and Hopfgartner F. (eds) eHealth 360°. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 181. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_48.
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Conference paper presented at International Summit on eHealth Budapest, Hungary, June 14–16, 2016, available online on 01 December 2016, available open access at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_48.
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Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
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