Digital Ethics and Wellbeing

The conference explores the ethics and wellbeing impact of digital technology use (online activity, gaming, smartphone use, AI, VR etc.) from philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives. We welcome contributions on a wide range of topics within this field, for example  gaming and mental health, use of AI and VR to support wellbeing in different groups (e.g. young people and older adults), use of AI and VR to foster new understandings and ideas for wellbeing and individual and collective ways of living, social media use and personal development, existential aspects of AI companionship, and how normative consideration and knowledge of the wellbeing impact can inform design of technology, interventions and policy making, and comparative studies o Chinese and Western approaches to ethical assessment and to integrating ethical concerns in innovation and implementation processes.