Publications related to Ethics of technology

The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases

Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compass ...

2024

Teaching Not To

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

Two design studios were successively taught in two schools of architecture: one at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the other at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, based on "A Global Morato ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2024

DRONE GAME THAT HIGHLIGHTS ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS OF DESIGN DECISIONS

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Gianni Lodetti, Barbara Bruno

This paper reports on the development of a brief scenario-based challenge to prompt engineering students’ reflection about the broader impacts of their design decisions, and thereby increase their ethical sensitivity and motivation. The game scenario asks ...

CDIO conference proceedings2023

Spinning Out Greentech Start-ups

Adam Swetloff

The Paris Agreement has made combating climate change a priority and has incentivised innovation for the greentech industry. Higher education institution[s] (HEI[s]) play an important role in fueling this innovation by developing disruptive technologies an ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2023

Writing and Drawing Inventions: Patents and Technology in France and the United States (18th-19th centuries)

Jérôme Baudry

Description (through texts, images, models or samples) played a central role in the patent regimes that emerged in the eighteenth century, first in England, later in the United States and in France. Description ensured that the contract—protection in excha ...

2023

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Denis Gillet, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Pascal Felber

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022

IRGC (2022) Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technologies - 1. Workshop report

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This report assumes that something can be done to guide technology developers and others towards producing technology that does not cause indirect and delayed damage to the environment. It explores the extent to which environmental sustainability concerns ...

EPFL2022

Biological nanopores for single-molecule sensing

Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Simon Finn Mayer

Evolution has found countless ways to transport material across cells and cellular compartments separated by membranes. Protein assemblies are the cornerstone for the formation of channels and pores that enable this regulated passage of molecules in and ou ...

2022

Leibniz en Créateur. Un regard matériel sur sa machine à calculer

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Between 1671 and 1716, the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz attempted to design a reckoning machine. Working closely with the Parisian clockmaker Monsieur Ollivier, Leibniz eventually failed at producing a working prototype. After the redisco ...

2022

Persistence of the isotopic signature of pentavalent uranium in magnetite

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Barbora Bártová, Zezhen Pan

Original data pertaining to the manuscript 'Persistence of the isotopic signature of pentavalent uranium in magnetite' published in Environmental Science and Technology by Zezhen Pan, Yvonne Roebbert, Aaron Beck, Barbora Bartova, Tonya Vitova, Stefan Weyer ...

Zenodo2022

Bio-Hybrid Systems for Ecosystem Level Effects

Francesco Mondada, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Robert Matthew Mills, Rafael Botner Barmak, Matthieu Jean-Michel Philippe Broisin, Martina Szopek, Jean-Louis Deneubourg

In a time marked by ecological decay and by the perspective of a severe backlash of this ecosystem decay and climate devastation onto human society, bold moves that employ novel technology to counteract this decline are required. We present a novel concept ...

MIT Press2021

EHR: a Sensing Technology Readiness Model for Lifestyle Changes

Pearl Pu Faltings, Yu Chen, Danni Le, Zerrin Yumak

Interest in developing user-centered sensing technologies for personalized behavior change has gained significant momentum. However, very little research work has been done to understand issues relative to user readiness and adoption of the sensing technol ...

Springer2017

From closed testaments to books: Virtual X-ray Reading as an alternate digitization technology for fragile documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Demetri Psaltis, Fauzia Albertin

In recent years, research and technology made considerable progress in increasing the speed and the safety of the entire digitization process of ancient collections. Despite this, imaging ancient, fragile or un-opened documents remains a formidable challen ...

Soc Imaging Science & Technology2017

Learning analytics in small-scale teacher-led innovations: Ethical and data privacy issues

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

As a further step towards maturity, the field of learning analytics (LA) is working on the definition of frameworks that structure the legal and ethical issues that scholars and practitioners have to take into account when planning and applying LA solution ...

2016

Current status and future directions for in situ transmission electron microscopy

Thomas La Grange

This review article discusses the current and future possibilities for the application of in situ transmission electron microscopy to reveal synthesis pathways and functional mechanisms in complex and nanoscale materials. The findings of a group of scienti ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems

Andras Kis, Zhe Sun

We present the science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems, targeting an evolution in technology, that might lead to impacts and benefits reaching into most areas of society. This roadmap was developed ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Stepped Spillways: Technical Advance from 1900

Michael Pfister

Stepped spillways are currently a standard design in hydraulic engineering. Whereas these spillways were hardly employed until the advent to the Roller-Compacted Concrete (RCC) Technology in the 1980s, they were of particular interest from the 1990s for sp ...

Tsinghua University Press (wqbook)2013

The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

Aude Billard, Pawel Lichocki

This paper surveys some of the main ethical issues pertaining to robotics that have been discussed in the literature. We start with the idea of responsibility ascription that arises when an autonomous system malfunctions or harms people. Next, we discuss v ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Technology In-Sourcing and the Creation of Pioneering Technologies

Vareska van de Vrande

This study analyzes the effect of different external technology sourcing modes on the creation of radical innovation in companies. Moreover, since prior research has indicated that exploration consists of looking beyond both organizational and technologica ...

2011

Integrated SMD pressure/flow/temperature multisensor for compressed air in LTCC technology: Thermal flow and temperature sensing

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Yannick Sébastien Fournier, Nicolas Craquelin, Jean-Bastien Coma

In this work, we present and analyse the flow-sensing part of a recently-developed multisensor in LTCC (low- temperature co-fired ceramic) technology; this device integrates flow / pressure / temperature sensing and is designed for diagnostics monitoring o ...

Elsevier2011