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Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research.

Science and engineering ethics Dec 24, 2024
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into critical domains such as healthcare holds immense promise. Nevertheless, significant challenges must be addressed to avoid harm, promote the well-being of individuals and societies, and ensure ethically s...
Humans Artificial Intelligence Stakeholder Participation Anthropology, Cultural Bias Delivery of Health Care Social Sciences Ethics, Research Focus Groups
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Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives: Re-theorizing resistance to social robots in healthcare.

Social science & medicine (1982) Dec 2, 2024
Many countries are under pressure because of lack of healthcare staff to provide care to an increasingly aged population. Potential solutions are often sought through technological innovation, including social robots to cater to the patients' emotion...
Austria Health Personnel Humans Caregivers Attitude of Health Personnel Animals Anthropology, Cultural Robotics
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Application of artificial intelligence in medical education: A meta-ethnographic synthesis.

Medical teacher Oct 31, 2024
With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it has had a profound impact on medical education. Understanding the advantages and issues of AI in medical education, providing guidance for educators, and overcoming challenges in the implementa...
Curriculum Education, Medical Humans Anthropology, Cultural Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial lives, analogies and symbolic thought: an anthropological insight on robots and AI.

Studies in history and philosophy of science May 2, 2023
The aim of this article is to explore the conception of artificial life forms and the interactions we have with them by paying a particular attention to the analogies that characterize them and the mental processes they give rise to. The article adop...
Humans Robotics Symbolism Anthropology Mental Processes Anthropology, Cultural
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Implementing artificial intelligence in Canadian primary care: Barriers and strategies identified through a national deliberative dialogue.

PloS one Feb 27, 2023
BACKGROUND: With large volumes of longitudinal data in electronic medical records from diverse patients, primary care is primed for disruption by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. With AI applications in primary care still at an early stage in...
Canada Anthropology, Cultural Humans Big Data Primary Health Care Artificial Intelligence
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Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing.

Social studies of science Apr 7, 2022
Care robots promise to assist older people in an ageing society. This article investigates the socio-material conditions of care with robots by focusing on the usually invisible practices of human-machine interfacing. I define human-machine interfaci...
Anthropology, Cultural Aged Robotics Humans
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The entwinement of policy, design and care scripts: Providing alternative choice-dependency situations with care robots.

Sociology of health & illness Jan 29, 2022
The use of robots to assist feeding has become important for people with an impaired arm function. Yet, despite large-scale dissemination strategies, it has proven difficult to sustain the use of this technology. This ethnographic study draws on the ...
Anthropology, Cultural Humans Policy Robotics Sweden
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Formal caregivers' perceptions and experiences of using pet robots for persons living with dementia in long-term care: A meta-ethnography.

Journal of advanced nursing Oct 5, 2020
AIM: To explore the formal caregivers' perceptions and experiences of using pet robots for persons living with dementia residing in long-term care settings and the factors influencing their perceptions by evaluating, integrating, and synthesizing fin...
Humans Long-Term Care Perception Caregivers Dementia Anthropology, Cultural Robotics
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Of robots and humans: Creating user representations in practice.

Social studies of science Feb 10, 2020
In this study, we explore the constitution of user representations of robots in design practice. Using the results of ethnographic research in two robot laboratories, we show how user representations emerge in and are entangled with design activities...
Robotics Laboratories Anthropology, Cultural Engineering Humans Artificial Intelligence
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Understanding safety-critical interactions with a home medical device through Distributed Cognition.

Journal of biomedical informatics Jun 6, 2015
As healthcare shifts from the hospital to the home, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how patients interact with home medical devices, to inform the safe and patient-friendly design of these devices. Distributed Cognition (DCog) has...
Anthropology, Cultural Hemodialysis, Home Patient Safety United Kingdom Humans Software Residence Characteristics Renal Insufficiency Female Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Decision Making Interior Design and Furnishings Adult Aged Equipment and Supplies Middle Aged Male Artifacts Renal Dialysis Data Collection
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