Value and emotions driven design (Sabine Roeser)

3TU.Centre for
Ethics and Technology
Prof.dr. Jeroen van den Hoven, scientific director
Prof.dr. Sabine Roeser, managing director
Theoretical frameworks
• Philosophy of risk, ethics of risk (Roeser, Peterson (TU/e))
• Risk and emotion (Roeser, VENI-VIDI)
• Distribution of responsibility (Van de Poel, NWO open
competition)
• New technologies as social experiments (Van de Poel,
VICI)
• Posthumanism (Verbeek (Twente), VIDI)
• Dual Nature of Technological Artefacts (Kroes, Vermaas,
Houkes, Franssen)
• Technological Functions (Vermaas, VIDI)
• Value Sensitive Design (Verbeek (Twente), VENI; Van den
Hoven)
Research topics in ethics and
robotics
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Programming ethical principles (Van den Hoven, NWO-MVI)
Human-machine interaction
Reliable systems
Robot emotions (contacts with HUMANE-network)
Care-robots (Van Wijnsberghe, Coeckelbergh (Twente),
NWO-MVI)
Ethical issues concerning technological implants
Ethical issues concerning robot-human hybrids (Verbeek,
VIDI)
The nature of contextual knowledge (Blaauw, VENI)
Modal (Deontic, Epistemic, Action) Logic and Prolog
Implementation (Lokhorst, Dechesne), Moral Reasoning,
Moral Constraints