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Abstract

Intelligent Environments bring technology closer to daily life and aim to provide context-sensitive services to humans in the physical spaces in which they work and live. Some developments have considered the ethical dimension of these systems; however this is an aspect, which requires further analysis. A literature review shows that these approaches are rather disconnected from each other, and that they are not making an impact on real systems being built. This paper summarises the ethical concerns addressed by previous work, highlights other important concerns, which have been overlooked so far, and proposes a more holistic approach. It explains how these concerns can be used to guide part of the development process in such a way that Intelligent Environments being engineered in the future will consider the ethical dimension in practice, not just in theory.

Development and Validation of a Basic Psychological Needs Scale for Technology Use

“…Moreover, several ethical guidelines and frameworks were formed over the recent years (see e.g., Chatila et al, 2017; Ikonen et al, 2009; Jones et al, 2014) to establish principles for the development of autonomous systems, highlighting the importance of human autonomy and user well-being. For example, the Association for Computing Machinery has established the following point as their first principle of ethical conduct: “Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in computing”, pointing toward the importance of considering user well-being in the processes of computing (Gotterbarn et al, 2018).…”