Freedom and Privacy in Ambient Intelligence

By Philip Brey. 2005

115 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This paper analyzes ethical aspects of the new paradigm of Ambient Intelligence, which is a combination of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’s). After an introduction to the approach, two key ethical dimensions will be analyzed: freedom and privacy. It is argued that Ambient Intelligence, though often designed to enhance freedom and control, has the potential to limit freedom and autonomy as well. Ambient Intelligence also harbors great privacy risks, and these are explored as well.

Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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In Information Systems

1. Bernease Herman
2. O. Gandy

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Bernease Herman
2. O. Gandy
3. Matthias Leese

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. Bernease Herman
2. O. Gandy

Citations in the corpus

• The Promise and Peril of Human Evaluation for Model Interpretability (2017, background): “) Brey [2] describes the conflict between a user trusting one’s own judgments and intuitions with trusting that of a potentially more intelligent technology.”
• Smart wearable systems: Current status and future challenges (2012, background): “France was second among the OECD countries, behind the USA (17.4%), Germany (11.6%), Canada (11.4%), Switzerland (11.4”
• Engaging rational discrimination: exploring reasons for placing regulatory constraints on decision support systems (2010, background): “Initially, at least, regulations based on prospective and retrospective technology assessments may establish limits 7 Brey (2005).”