http://hdl.handle.net/10379/3846 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:56:17 GMT 2017-10-29T21:56:17Z http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6918 Dialogue, ethics, and the aesthetic worth of life Cipriani, Gerald The ones who dictate and act for their own survival regardless of the existence of otherness soon realize, often too late, that there cannot be such a survival. To realize this is simply to understand the nature of the dialogue. The principle is at work in all felds and at all levels. The issue at stake is thus to fnd ways of relating to nature and fellow humans that both acknowledge and allow the complementary and reciprocal character of such a relationship – a sort of equilibrium made of differences and sharing in order to handle the inferno, inexorability, and creativity of the spiral of life. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6918 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6256 Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics Innes, Anthea; Meiland, Franka; Mountain, Gail; Robinson, Louise; van der Roest, Henriëtte; García-Casal, J. Antonio; Gove, Dianne; Thyrian, Jochen René; Evans, Shirley; Dröes, Rose-Marie; Kelly, Fiona; Kurz, Alexander; Casey, Dympna; Szcześniak, Dorota; Dening, Tom; Craven, Tom; Span, Marijke; Felzmann, Heike; Tsolaki, Magda; Franco-Martín, Manuel Background: With the expected increase in the numbers of persons with dementia, providing timely, adequate, and affordable care and support is challenging. Assistive and health technologies may be a valuable contribution in dementia care, but new challenges may emerge. Objective: The aim of our study was to review the state of the art of technologies for persons with dementia regarding issues on development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics in 3 fields of application of technologies: (1) support with managing everyday life, (2) support with participating in pleasurable and meaningful activities, and (3) support with dementia health and social care provision. The study also aimed to identify gaps in the evidence and challenges for future research. Methods: Reviews of literature and expert opinions were used in our study. Literature searches were conducted on usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and ethics using PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and PsycINFO databases with no time limit. Selection criteria in our selected technology fields were reviews in English for community-dwelling persons with dementia. Regarding deployment issues, searches were done in Health Technology Assessment databases. Results: According to our results, persons with dementia want to be included in the development of technologies; there is little research on the usability of assistive technologies; various benefits are reported but are mainly based on low-quality studies; barriers to deployment of technologies in dementia care were identified, and ethical issues were raised by researchers but often not studied. Many challenges remain such as including the target group more often in development, performing more high-quality studies on usability and effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, creating and having access to high-quality datasets on existing technologies to enable adequate deployment of technologies in dementia care, and ensuring that ethical issues are considered an important topic for researchers to include in their evaluation of assistive technologies. Conclusions: Based on these findings, various actions are recommended for development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics of assistive and health technologies across Europe. These include avoiding replication of technology development that is unhelpful or ineffective and focusing on how technologies succeed in addressing individual needs of persons with dementia. Furthermore, it is suggested to include these recommendations in national and international calls for funding and assistive technology research programs. Finally, practitioners, policy makers, care insurers, and care providers should work together with technology enterprises and researchers to prepare strategies for the implementation of assistive technologies in different care settings. This may help future generations of persons with dementia to utilize available and affordable technologies and, ultimately, to benefit from them. Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6256 2017-01-16T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6161 Algorithms, social media and mental health Felzmann, Heike; Kennedy, Rónán Algorithmic identification of mental health characteristics is feasible on the basis of easily available information on social media. Such information can be extracted by algorithmic methods from publicly available information. These possibilities raise significant ethical and legal concerns, especially with regard to issues of privacy, consent, transparency and harm and the protections of the DPD and GDPR. Journal article Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6161 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10379/4788 Steven Crowell - Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger O'Rourke, Jonathan Given the ubiquity of Husserl's influence in the twentieth century, it is often vexing to interpret the complicated appropriation of his vocabulary by later writers. In particular, his placement of phenomenology in the transcendental tradition has been a source of contention among his successors. It is not surprising therefore, that as the posthumous publications force us to revaluate the breadth of his work, the now caricatured relationship between Husserl and Heidegger requires some further clarification. It is this relationship in particular which forms the structure of the present volume. Book review Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10379/4788 2013-09-21T00:00:00Z