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Unlocking the black box of wearable intelligence: ethical considerations and social impact

Tuovinen, Lauri orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7916-0255 and Smeaton, Alan F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1028-8389 (2019) Unlocking the black box of wearable intelligence: ethical considerations and social impact. In: 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 10-13 Jun 2019, Wellington, New Zealand.

Abstract
Computational intelligence is making its way into a variety of popular consumer products, including wearable physiological monitors such as activity trackers and sleep trackers. Such products are very convenient for the user, but this convenience is the result of a trade-off that has ethical implications, since in almost all cases it denies the user access to their own raw data underlying the easy-to-understand analyses that the products generate for them. One problem with this is that the user is not made aware of the uncertainty of the conclusions or analyses drawn from the data; another is that it is difficult for the user to reuse his or her data in other contexts, such as to combine data from multiple sources. Even if the user did have full control of the data, this would only solve part of the problem, because most people do not have the special skills required to analyze such data. This overall problem could be solved through collaboration between the data owner and a data analysis expert, though this again introduces further problems, notably that of preserving the data owner’s privacy. In this paper we analyze the aforementioned issues pertaining to the ethics of wearable intelligence, propose possible approaches to handling them, and discuss the potential social impact of the technology if the issues can be successfully overcome.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:self-tracking; wearable devices; personal data; ethics
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial intelligence
Computer Science > Lifelog
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Institutes and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Published in: Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. . IEEE.
Publisher:IEEE
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2019.8790173
Copyright Information:©2019 The Authors
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:EU Horizon 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie, grant No. 746837, Science Foundation Ireland, Research Centres Programme. Grant No. 12/RC/2289
ID Code:23508
Deposited On:01 Jul 2019 08:38 by Lauri Tuovinen . Last Modified 11 Nov 2019 14:24
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