Responsible Help at Home: Establishing Indicators for a Product Assessment Methodology
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Thorstensen ET: Responsible Help at Home: Establishing Indicators for a Product Assessment Methodology. In: Bowman, Dijkstra A, Fautz C, Guivant J, Konrad K, Shelley-Egan C, Woll S. The Politics and Situatedness of Emerging Technologies, 2017. IOS Press p. 167-182Abstract
Responsible research and innovation (RRI)
seeks to expand the
governance of innovations through including social values and beneficial impacts
throughout the innovation process.
This
chapter
presents an attempt at addressing
how to use insights from RRI in establishing a method for assessment of assisted
living technologies.
In
a current research project, we
aim to compare
assisted living
products developed through an
RRI process with such products developed through
a different approach. I argue that product assessment is a central part of responsible
research and innovation, albeit a less developed part than the procedural dimension
of RRI. Based on the literature of assisted living technologies and
socio-ethical
issues
and on a range of stakeholder engagement activities in the research project, I
document substantive values and themes that should to be included in an
RRI
assessment
of assisted living technologies
. These themes and values are
systematised
with the aim of aiding in selecting a product assessment methodology.