Autonomous Agency, Health Promotion, and Technology Design

Workshop: Autonomous Agency, Health Promotion, and Technology Design
Date/time: 12 September 2014, 13:00-18:00
Location: University of Utrecht
Sponsors: OZSW (Dutch Research School for Philosophy), University of Utrecht, and TU Eindhoven

Speakers:
Søren Holm, University of Manchester, “How I Learned To Love the Internet of Things: Ethical Issues in Pervasive Persuasion”

Anton Vedder & Samantha Adams, University of Tilburg, “Reflections on individual autonomy and the ideology of self-management in the age of eHealth, mHealth and uHealth”

Bart Kamphorst, University of Utrecht, “Exploring How E-Coaching Systems Can Affect the Self-Governance of Planning Agents”

Tamar Schapiro, Stanford University, “Self-government and self-management”

Maartje Schermer, Erasmus Medical Centre, “What is ‘Health’ in E-Health Promotion Technologies?”

Sander Voerman, TU Eindhoven, “Responsible Telecare: Managed Self-Management”

Theme of the workshop:
A whole new vocabulary has sprung up to discuss the ways that technology design can improve health: Persuasive technology, nudging, assistive technology, choice architecture, and self-management are just a few key concepts.  Many health researchers have the ambition of using technologies such as e-coaching, wearable devices, smart buildings, and architecture to influence peoples’ choices and behavior and thereby improve their health.  In this workshop we take a philosophical look at these developments, situating them in relation to important values such as autonomy, agency, self-management, and quality of life, as well as concepts of health and illness.

There is a very limited number of places still available.  Please let us know if you would like to reserve a place, by sending an email to [email protected].

Organized by Joel Anderson (UU) and Philip J. Nickel (TU/e) in connection with the projects “Promoting Effective Intentions: Volitional Scaffolding, Implementation Intentions, and Bedtime Procrastination” and “Medical Trust Beyond Clinical Walls” (NWO Responsible Innovation project).

http://scaffoldingintentions.phil.uu.nl

http://beyondclinicalwalls.nl

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