Duration: 01-06-2022 → 30-11-2022
RED-AID: REspectful and capability-centreD AI Device for Preventing Call Fraud
Aim The RED-AID project has developed a conceptual home edge IoT device called WatchDog with the aim of addressing the issue of voice-based social engineering attacks. By applying a novel theoretical framework based on respectful design principles of interactive AI systems (work that resulted partially from the PETRAS project RETCON), RED-AID aims to develop an actionable ethical framework focusing on capabilities-centred...
Duration: 01-01-2018 → 31-12-2022
BRIdging Technology in the Built Environment (BRIDE)
The aim of the BRIDE project is to explore the role of smart public infrastructure in making and re-making of public space. Utilizing research through design and mobilizing an empirical-philosophical theory of technology, the research team will engage in the design and construction of data interaction systems for an Internet of Things-enabled 3D printed...
Duration: 22-05-2018 → 31-12-2022
Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities
As the Amersfoort Municipality is building a new Internet of Things infrastructure, this consortium of public-private partners wants to develop a government-citizen-academic-industry collaboration platform that allows a wide range of stakeholders in a series of co-design sessions to discuss ethical, juridical, and social controversies, and foster broader support. Consortiumpartners: Gemeente Amersfoort, Marxman Advocaten, Aerovision,...
Theorizing Technological Mediation
Despite its explosive growth over the past decades, the philosophy of technology is in great need of an empirical-philosophical theory of technology. The objective of this project is to develop such a theory: a theory of technological mediation. Building such a theory is a radical new step in the development of the ‘postphenomenological’ approach...
Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility
International terrorism, e.g. Al Qaeda, IS, is a major global security threat. Counter-terrorism is a morally complex enterprise involving police, military, intelligence agencies and non-security agencies. Counter-terrorism should be framed as a collective moral responsibility of governments, security institutions and citizens. (1) How is international terrorism to be defined? (2) What is the required...
SIENNA
The SIENNA project is a European Commission-funded project in the Horizon 2020 programme with a budget of € 4.0 million and a running time of 3 ½ years (October 1, 2017 – April 1, 2021). It is carried by a consortium of thirteen organizations from the European Union and other parts of the world,...
NEWEL Project: The New Science of Existential Well-being
Many large organizations collect and generate massive amounts of data about their employees. Could these organizations leverage these data to improve the lives of their employees? This is the main question driving the New Science of Existential Well-Being (NEWEL) project. The project is a collaboration of academic researchers in philosophy (from the University of...
Fearful Technologies. Historical and ethical perspectives on the role of fear in pro-technology discourses
The project combines a historical with an ethical perspective on the the role that fear plays in the debates about emerging technologies. Research shows that technology discourses build up over a long time. Taking an historical perspective and using the methodology of discourse analysis therefore enables us to study the shaping of longterm consequences....
Developing and Implementing Smart Grids in India
India faces two major challenges in the field of electricity generation and use. Its electricity demand is growing while its central grid suffers from severe performance deficits. Meanwhile, a significant part of India’s population does not even have access to the central grid. The Indian government aims to address these challenges in part by...
Responsible Industry
Responsible-Industry is an EU-funded project that explores how private corporations can conduct their research and innovation activities responsibly. The Responsible-Industry project will design an Exemplar Implementation Plan of RRI in Industry to demonstrate how industry can work productively together with societal actors and integrate principles and methodologies of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)...