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SUMMARY:Autonomy\, Surveillance and Consumer Social Support Technologies for Older People: A New Take on Privacy Paradoxes and Trade-offs at the Intersection of Law\, Ethics\, Design\, and Experience
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Slane and Isabel Pedersen will present at the Law and Society Annual conference at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan\, Puerto Rico. \nA growing number of consumer technology companies are trying to convince older adults that having a humanoid AI powered device with interactive voice features is a helpful tool to support aging-in-place. The array of functions such devices are marketed to perform include many already featured in common voice assistants like Amazon Alexa\, while other functions are more specific to older people\, including health and safety monitoring and serving to mitigate loneliness. These devices\, such as Intuition Robotics’ ElliQ\, are not exactly medical devices\, not exactly security systems\, and not mere digital assistants: instead\, they are multi-function\, network coordinating devices with a robotic persona. As such\, they implicate older people’s autonomy and privacy in complex ways. \nIn this paper\, we examine one particularly sticky problem arising from use of such devices for health and mental wellness support: namely\, how can these devices ensure informed consent – a mainstay of both bioethics and data protection – when they are not clearly governed by a comprehensive set of rules\, neither from the perspective of elder care nor as a digital consumer product? To approach this central question\, the paper maps how informed consent is problematized and which solutions are proposed across several domains: human-computer interaction (HCI); healthcare ethics; privacy law; and empirical studies of potential device users’ attitudes toward such devices\, including our own study with 200 older adults in Canada. The paper unpacks two prominent conceptual figures frequently employed to talk about the complexity of autonomy and independence in this context: the trade-off and the paradox. In doing so\, the paper advances law and society scholarship on informed consent as contextualized in the datasphere\, particularly\, the consent of older adults subject to various types of monitoring through one AI powered humanoid device.
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/autonomy-surveillance-and-consumer-social-support-technologies-for-older-people-a-new-take-on-privacy-paradoxes-and-trade-offs-at-the-intersection-of-law-ethics-design-and-experience/
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SUMMARY:At the Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence: Considering the Implications of AI for Teaching and Learning
DESCRIPTION:Isabel Pedersen will discuss the social and ethical implications of recent AI developments such as ChatGPT for higher education. Following Dr. Pedersen’s talk\, discussants\, including Dr. Karleen Pendleton Jiménez\, Acting Associate Dean\, Trent Durham\, Mitch Huguenin\, Education Developer\, Indigenous Pedagogy\, and Dana Capell\, Senior Education Developer\, will offer remarks; time will also be reserved for open discussion.
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/at-the-crossroads-of-artificial-intelligence-considering-the-implications-of-ai-for-teaching-and-learning/
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SUMMARY:Visualizing the Datasphere: Representations of Old Bodies and Their Data in Promotional Images of Smart Sensor Technologies for Ageing at Home
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Martin\, Kirsten L. Ellison\, Barbara L. Marshall and Isabel Pedersen present this conference paper at the The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology\, Melbourne\, Australia\, June 25-July 1\, 2023. The conference theme is Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions\, Politics\, and Economies. The paper discusses how technologies for people ageing at home are increasingly prevalent and include ambient monitoring devices that work together with wearables to remotely track and monitor older adults’ biometric data and activities of daily living. There is however little research into the promotional and speculative images of technology-in-use. Our paper examines the ways in which the datafication of ageing is offered up visually by technology companies to promote their products. Specifically\, we ask: how is data visualized in promotional images of smart sensor technologies for ageing at home? And in these visualizations\, what happens to the ageing body and relations of care? We include in our definition of smart sensor technologies both wearable and ambient monitoring devices\, so long as they are used for the in-home passive monitoring of the inhabitant by a caregiver\, excluding those devices targeted for institutional settings or those used for self-monitoring purposes. Our sample consists of 221 images collected between January and July of 2021 from the websites of 14 English-language companies that offer smart sensor technology for ageing at home. Following a thematic and semiotic analysis we present 3 themes on the visual representation of old bodies and their data: (1) Captured Data\, (2) Spatialized Data\, and (3) Networked Data. Each\, we argue\, contribute to a broader visualization of the ‘datasphere’. We conclude by highlighting the underlying assumptions of ageing bodies in the co-constitution of ageing and technologies in which the materiality of bodies is more often lost\, reduced to data points and automated care scenarios\, and further disentangled from other bodies\, contexts and things.
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/visualizing-the-datasphere-representations-of-old-bodies-and-their-data-in-promotional-images-of-smart-sensor-technologies-for-ageing-at-home/
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SUMMARY:Augmentation tech\, AI\, and the future of an AI-enhanced self
DESCRIPTION:At Civic Tech Toronto\, Isabel Pedersen speaks about ChatGPT and more advanced AI systems increasingly becoming embedded in augmentation technologies that enhance human capability or productivity. These technologies can add cognitive\, physical\, sensory\, and emotional enhancements to the body or environment. How can we work toward more ethical designs for future tech through civic engagement and collaboration? This lecture was part of a Civic Tech Toronto Meetup at University of Toronto.
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/augmentation-tech-ai-and-the-future-of-an-ai-enhanced-self/
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