Working Group 4 – Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects

Working Group Leader

Heike Felzmann

Working Group Leader

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga

Working Group Leader

Ann-Marie Hughes

The Ethical, Legal and Societal (ELS) aspects of Wearable Robotics (WRs) are wide in scope, ranging from individual’s personal experience of using WRs to larger social concerns about human-enhancement or possible economic implications. The working group on ELS engages with these issues in order to help create technologies that have high rates of user-acceptability and help to improve the user’s Quality of Life (QoL). 
 
This working group will work towards the following goals: identify the values that motivate both building and using the technology; consider possible tensions between values; and, recommend ways of multi-stakeholder collaboration. Examples of ELS areas of interest in WRs include: user’s personal experience, public acceptability, driving forces for use and development, potential economic shifts, and consequences of human-enhancement. The working group is interdisciplinary, and draws upon ELS theories to analyze various WR applications at all stages of development. 
 
The working group’s activities include: multidisciplinary workshops, collaborative research projects, STSMs, and joint publications. 

WG meeting was held in Porto. Meeting short text. Click for details

WG meeting was held in Porto. Meeting short text….. Click for details

Members

Adam Poulsen, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Aimee van Wynsberghe, University of Twente, Netherlands
Alexandra Kapeller, Foundation for Responsible Robotics, Netherlands
Amalric Ortlieb, EPFL, Switzerland
András Tóth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Andreas Mueller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Österreich
Annalies Baumeister, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Annick Timmermans, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
Anto Čartolovni, Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia
Cristina, AYESA AIR CONTROL, Spain
Denisa Butnaru, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Eduard Fosch Villaronga, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Freygardur Thorsteinsson, Össur hf, Iceland
Gerdienke Prange, Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
Gurvinder Singh Virk, InnovativeTechnology and Science Limited, United Kingdom
Heike Felzmann, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Ileana Ciobanu, Elias University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Isabel Machado Alexandre, ISCTE – Instituto universitario de Lisboa, Portugal
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jens Clausen, Ethics and Lifesciences and their didactics, Kunzenweg 21, D-79117 Freiburg GERMANY, Germany
Kevin Macnish, University of Twente, Netherlands
Konstantinos Nizamis, University of Twente, Netherlands
Kristin Briem, University of Iceland, Iceland
Laura Marchal Crespo, University of Bern, Switzerland
Lucilla Gatt, Universit? Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli, Italy
Manuel Fernando dos Santos Silva, Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering (ISEP), Portugal
Marco Molinari, Santa Lucia Foundation, Italy
Marija Radmilovic, Institute Mihailo Pupin, Serbia
Mark Coeckelbegh, University of Vienna, Austria
Massimo Di Pardo, CRF, Italy
Michiel de Looze, TNO, Netherlands
Nathanaël Jarrassé, ISIR, CNRS – Sorbonne Université, France
Nearchos Paspallis, UCLan Cyprus, Cyprus
Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petros Stefaneas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Romain Valette, , France
Saskia Nagel, University of Twente, Netherlands
Senka Anastasova, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, Macedonia
Shiqian Wang, Reboocon Bionics B.V., Netherlands
Sofia Almpani, NTUA, Greece
Tobias Mahler, University of Oslo, Norway