Defining ethical guidelines for ambient intelligence applications on a mobile phone.

Date
2009Abstract
Ambient Intelligence applications based on information and
communication technology embedded in our environment and everyday objects
raise several ethical issues. Even if ethical principles tend to be easily
acceptable they are not so easy to concretize for design guidance. In this paper
we describe how we have defined ethical guidelines for ambient intelligence
applications on a mobile phone parallel to the development of the mobile phone
platform architecture. Our aim has been to define guidelines that are concrete
enough to be easy to understand and easy to follow by service and application
designers as well as by platform developers. Our work highlights that it is
possible and beneficial to study ethical issues when developing platforms and
architectures for future applications. In that way we can identify ethical
concerns well before the actual commercial application development takes
place and we can find solutions to the concerns together with technology
developers.
Description
Citation : Veikko, I., Eija, K. and Marketta, N. (2009) Defining Ethical Guidelines for Ambient Intelligence Applications on a Mobile Phone. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE09), 20-21 July 2009, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Research Group : Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility