Victor Vadmand Jensen , Jeppe Lange , Marianne Johansson Jørgensen , Jan Wolff , Rikke Hagensby Jensen & Mette Terp Høybye
With the increasing introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into clinical medicine, ethical issues have been highlighted. For example; how do we navigate wanting both accurate, but complicated, AI models with wanting to explain their inner workings? When clinicians and patients encounter ethical issues, they may reject using AI models, meaning that possible benefits like faster diagnostics or personalized treatments may be lost.
This PhD project aims to investigate the ethical issues that arise with the introduction of AI into healthcare and clinical medicine. Specifically, it will unfold the possible ethical issues that might arise in the future given the current state of AI in this field. By understanding how clinicians and patients understand and engage with the future ethical issues of healthcare AI in practice today, we will understand how to develop and implement AI in healthcare that can be deemed ethically acceptable both now and in the future.Description
01/08-2024 → 31/07-2027
Anders Albrechtslund , Astrid Meyer , Polina Velyka , Virginie Behar , Toke Jøns Mulvad & Andrea Sehested Thomsen
The aim is to foreground the “who” of surveillance - we are not just observed objects, but also subjects who experience and practice surveillance - thus opening new scientific territory. Three qualitative case studies focusing on healthcare and daily life investigate the experience of surveillance, technological affordances, and diverse forms of agency individuals use in response to surveillance.Description
01/07-2024 → 30/06-2029
Christian Dindler , Peter Gall Krogh & Gizem Öz
About the project
As digital technology permeates most aspects of our lives, there is a growing awareness that ethics is a central concern for designers. In design research, design ethics has a long history. However, most research efforts have dealt with ethics as a philosophical issue, as normative standards or as accounts from researchers’ own design processes. Very little is known about how design practitioners and technology developers, working in commercial settings, understand ethics as part of their practice. The central research question guiding the DEEP project is how design practitioners understand and deal with ethics in their work. To address this question, the project will engage with designers working in commercial settings to explore design ethics in practice.
Project contribution
The purpose of this project is to investigate how the people who design the technology that surrounds us understand and deal with ethical dilemmas. The project sheds light on this issue through two cases in Danish companies that design and develop digital technology. Based on these cases, the project will develop a conceptual framework that summarizes the key factors and dynamics for capturing how design ethics unfold in practice.
This project will contribute with much needed knowledge about design ethics in practice in terms of current practices and how we might envision a framework for addressing design ethics in practice. The main outcomes of the project will be (1) two case studies that show how ethics is understood and dealt with in practice and (2) a framework for understanding the main factors and dynamics at play regarding design ethics.Description
01/09-2023 → 31/08-2026
Darius-Aurel Frank , Jason Dipalma , Ken Pfeuffer , Germán Leiva & Juan Sánchez Esquivel
01/09-2023 → 14/06-2026
