[Athena] {Disarmed} 1st International Workshop on Ethical Design of Ambient Intelligence (EDAmI), 19.7.2009

[Philippe Goujon <pgo AT info.fundp.ac.be>]

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Subject: Cfp: 1st International Workshop on Ethical Design of
Ambient
    Intelligence (EDAmI), 19.7.2009

You are invited to submit papers to the

1st International Workshop on Ethical Design of Ambient
Intelligence
(EDAmI), 19.7.2009

Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
In conjunction with IE09, 5th International Conference on
Intelligent
Environments, July 20-21, 2009
http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie09

Theme
The purpose of the workshop is to present research and studies that
have
tackled with issues related to new technologies, ethics and user
experience
of ambient intelligence. Another goal of the workshop is to focus on
ethical
guidelines that have been produced especially for the design of new
technologies. The whole-day workshop is organised in conjunction with
IE
2009 conference.

List of workshop themes include, but are not limited to:
* Ethical issues of Ambient Intelligence
* Ethical guidelines for design of Intelligent Environments
* User and/or usability/user experience studies related to the design
of
Intelligent Environments
* Privacy, Security and safety in the design of Intelligent
Environments
* Scenario-Based Design of Ambient Intelligence
* Design for All, Inclusive Design
* Sustainable design (ecological, social and economical)
* Activity Centered Design
* Human Driven Design of  Space and Architecture
* Art and Design
* Ethical Theories
* Value Based Design
* Value Centered Design
* Special Groups (e.g. elderly, disabled)
* Social Aspects
* Legal Aspects

ETICA  project
(www.etica-project.eu
)
The ETICA project will identify emerging Information and
Communication
Technologies (ICTs) and their potential application areas in order
to
analyse and evaluate ethical issues arising from these. By including
a
variety of stakeholders and disciplinary perspectives, it will grade
and
rank foreseeable ethical risks. Based on the study governance
arrangements
currently used to address ICT ethics in Europe, ETICA will 
recommend
concrete governance structures to address the most salient ethical
issues
identified. These recommendations will form the basis of more general
policy
recommendations aimed at addressing ethical issues in emerging ICTs
before
or as they arise.

Minami project
(http://www.fp6-minami.org/
)
MINAmI (Micro-Nano integrated platform for transverse Ambient
Intelligence
applications) is an European Commission FP6 supported IP project
developing
an open technology platform for mobile phone based ambient
intelligence
(mobile AmI). The platform extends the users' personal mobile phone
with
wireless connections to tags and sensors, thus enabling access to
ambient
applications and services. The platform concept enables a wide variety
of
usages for mobile AmI - but what do the users want and accept and what
are
the social and ethical issues raising from these concepts? Ethical
concerns
regarding the vision and products of the project are handled in special
task
dedicated to this.
Call for participation


You are cordially invited to participate to the workshop. We are looking
for
research and studies that have tackled with issues related to new
technologies, ethics and user experience of ambient intelligence. 
You are
invited to present your experiences or studies related to the theme. We
ask
you to give short description of your presentation in the form of
position
paper, abstract or full paper due 15th of May. The form of the
position
paper is quite free and informal at this stage but basically we are
waiting
for 2-8 pages descriptions of the theme.
Submissions

Submit your presentation to the workshop organisers as an attached file
by
15th May at latest.

Important dates:

Submission deadline for position papers/abstracts/full
papers:..............May 15, 2009
Notification of
acceptance:.................................................May 28,
2009
Final/full
papers...........................................................June 15,
2009
Workshop
Day................................................................July 
19, 2009

Workshop chairs:
Veikko Ikonen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Catherine Flick, University of Namur 
Philippe Goujon, University of Namur
Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Bernd Stahl, De Montfort University
Kutoma Wakunuma, De Montfort University

Contact and submissions:
edami.submissions AT vtt.fi
Workshop is organised by Etica and Minami projects in collaboration with
IE
2009.

Workshop blog:
http://ethicaldesignofambientintelligence.blogspot.com/

Philippe Goujon
Professeur
Faculté d'Informatique - Computer Science Department
FUNDP
Rue Grandgagnage, 21- B 5000 NAMUR
32+81 72 5258 - FAX 32+ 81 72 49 67
mail.pgo AT info.fundp.ac.be
 
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Projets en cours:
Projet IG3T :
http ://www.info.fundp.ac.be/IG3T

projets européens:
projet ETICA (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications) : MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk80" claiming to be http://moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk:8080/

projet EGAIS (The Etical GovernAnce of emerging technologieS
- New Governance perspective for integrating ethics into Technical development Projects and Applications)