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dc.contributor.authorThorstensen, Erik
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-12T06:09:40Z
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-13T08:31:03Z
dc.date.available2019-06-12T06:09:40Z
dc.date.available2019-06-13T08:31:03Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-10
dc.identifier.citationThorstensen ET. Responsibility for Assistive Technologies: Product Assessment Frameworks and Responsible Research and Innovation. Etikk i praksis. 2019;13(1):55-80en
dc.identifier.issn1890-3991
dc.identifier.issn1890-3991
dc.identifier.issn1890-4009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/7209
dc.description.abstractThe approach to innovations known as Responsible research and innovation (RRI) aims to move the innovation system towards creating products that strive to realize social values along with economic benefits. This paper discusses the systematic assessment of assistive technologies in order for them to meet the aims expressed in RRI. A central issue in the discussion is how to facilitate an integration of insights from the discourse on RRI with more established assessment approaches such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Based on the literature on existing socio-ethical assessment tools, I investigate how these tools can be combined with HTA and how they can add perspectives from RRI that might increase the socio-ethical value of assistive technologies. Through a discussion on how to understand RRI, HTA, assessment and integration, I suggest a list of four possible approaches that have the potential to be applied as assessment approaches that integrate insights from RRI and HTA. These are then evaluated on their ability to address issues that have emerged from a literature review on RRI and assistive technologies, on empirical studies in this technology field and on their product focus. In conclusion, I argue that the Ethical Impact Assessment, the Socratic approach, the Ethical Matrix, and the HTA Core Model seem to be the most promising methodologies, but that these need adjustments to cover substantive themes from RRI.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe project, ‘The Assisted Living Project: Responsible innovations for dignified lives at home for persons with mild cognitive impairment or dementia’, is financed by the Research Council of Norway under the SAMANSVAR strand (247620/O70).en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherNTNU Open Access Journalsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEtikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics;Årgang 13 No 1
dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEnergy scenariosen
dc.subjectJusticeen
dc.subjectFuture generationsen
dc.subjectResponsible researchen
dc.subjectAssistive technologyen
dc.subjectProduct assessmentsen
dc.titleResponsibility for Assistive Technologies: Product Assessment Frameworks and Responsible Research and Innovationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2019-06-12T06:09:40Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.5324/eip.v13i1.2525
dc.identifier.cristin1704179
dc.source.journalEtikk i praksis
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 247620


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