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2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report

Empowerment loop: a value-based model of the interactive unity of human and technology

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00035
Research InstitutionKanazawa University

Principal Investigator

Grueneberg P.  金沢大学, GS教育系, 准教授 (00757718)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Keywordshuman-robot interaction / social robotics / empowerment / care
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Phase A "Stakeholder analysis"
- Presentations/events: 1 panel at international conference STS Graz 2019 on "Humans & machines in healthcare contexts: interdisciplinary perspectives"; 1 online workshop "Norms and values of the usage of empowerment technologies"
- Publications: 1 paper accepted on "Empowering patients in the interactive unity with machines. A study on engineers and engineering of the robotic rehabilitation system HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb)" in: Brucksch & Sasaki (eds.): Humans & Machines in Medical Contexts - Case Studies from Japan. Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming); submitted 1 manuscript to international conference Robophilosophy 2020 on "Culturally sustainable social robotics as empowerment technology"; submitted 1 manuscript to a special issue of the International Journal of Social Robotics on "Reconsidering agency in the interactive unity of human and machine"
- Fieldwork: 12 qualitative semi-structured interviews with social stakeholders of medical care (nurses, physicians), rehabilitation, childcare, care for the elderly and disabled about their values and norms regarding the actual, future, or potential usage or non-usage of empowerment technologies; transcription and analysis
- Conceptual work: Definition of empowerment technologies, case studies, cognitive model of empowerment loop ("interactive unity of human and machine"), design principle of interactive unity (asymmetric reciprocity of human and machine)

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

Phase A: analysis of stakeholder interviews; building value-driven model of empowerment technologies
Phase B: building design principles for interactive unity of human and machine (functional model of empowerment technologies)

Strategy for Future Research Activity

Phase A: April~September: stakeholder analysis for value-based model of interactive unity of human and machine
Phase B: June~December: designing functional model of empowerment technologies; November~December: assessing norms and values of R&D; January~March: redifining model of interactive unity

  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Free University Berlin(ドイツ)

    • Country Name
      GERMANY
    • Counterpart Institution
      Free University Berlin
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Lapland University(フィンランド)

    • Country Name
      FINLAND
    • Counterpart Institution
      Lapland University
  • [Presentation] Empowerment, enhancement and cyborgization: ethical implications of heterarchic human-machine relations in the robotic rehabilitation system HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb)2019

    • Author(s)
      Patrick Grueneberg
    • Organizer
      STS Graz 2019
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Funded Workshop] Norms and values of the usage of empowerment technologies2019

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Published: 2021-01-27  

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