Ethical issues raised by the new orientations in ergonomics and living labs

Ethical issues raised by the new orientations in ergonomics and living labs.

User Experience Theory (UXT) provides us with criteria for designing products and technical systems for everyday activities (playing, learning, working,…) so as to satisfy users. Living Labs (LL), are plateforms used for the design and evaluation of technical systems. As such, they constitute tools that bring to this process some constraints., However these constraints have to be articulated to...

Ethical issues raised by genetically modified microorganisms

Unlike experiments carried out on humans and animals, applications involving microorganisms and their genetic modification do not cause pain and suffering as generally understood. The ethical problems raised by genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs) therefore mainly related to the impact they have on the Earth's biosphere. As microorganisms can be found everywhere, including in the ecologic...

Ethical and legal issues raised by cord blood banking - the challenges of the new bioeconomy.

• Cord blood banking raises ethical and legal issues which highlight the need for careful regulatory approaches to the emerging bioeconomy. • Consent processes for both private and public banking should be inclusive and representative of the different familial interests in the cord blood. • Property law is a potentially useful way of understanding the mechanisms for donation to both public and ...

Issues raised by "incidental findings" and their ethical implications.

Living Labs - An Ethical Challenge for Researchers and Platform Providers

The infamous Facebook emotion contagion experiment (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014) is one of the most prominent and best-known online experiments based on the concept of what we here call “living labs”. In these kinds of experiments, real-world applications such as social web platforms trigger experimental switches inside their system to present experimental changes to their users – most of...