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User Centric Systems: Ethical Consideration

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User-centric systems call for novel methods and tools for a tight and implicit man machine interaction. Often highly personalized system are sensitive and reactive to user psychological, social and physical situation. However providing such a support may cross the barriers of our privacy or may have impacts on us that we do not necessarily agree upon.

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Serbedzija, N. (2012). User Centric Systems: Ethical Consideration. In: Sénac, P., Ott, M., Seneviratne, A. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_53

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