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Extended Model for Ethical Evaluation

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Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 23))

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Failure to pay attention to ethical, legal, and social aspects or impacts (ELSA/ELSI) of technology can have considerable negative repercussions like lack of acceptance of a new technology, product, or service among prospective users and thus economic failure. Furthermore, funding institutions expect researchers and developers taking ELSA into account; in the EU, this is called Responsible Research & Innovation. In order to implement this concept in R&D, tools are needed; in what follows MEESTAR and its successor MEESTAR2 shall be presented. Initially developed for the ethical evaluation of ambient assisted living systems, MEESTAR2 can also be used to evaluate other technologies.

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  1. Institute for Social Research and Technology Assessment (IST), Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH), Regensburg, Germany

    Karsten Weber

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  1. Laboratory of Manufacturing Technology, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Athanasios Karafillidis

  2. Laboratory of Manufacturing Technology, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Robert Weidner

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Weber, K. (2018). Extended Model for Ethical Evaluation. In: Karafillidis, A., Weidner, R. (eds) Developing Support Technologies. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01836-8_25

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