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PhDIT'99
Second
International Workshop on Philosophy of Design and
Information Technology
Ethics
in Information Technology Design
16-17
December, 1999
Saint-Ferréol,
Toulouse - France
"Smart"
houses, "smart" software agents, "smart" cars,
"smart" clothes: from the buildings we inhabit, to the
software we use, an increasingly wide range of objects are being
endowed with "intelligent" capabilities.
This
workshop will bring together practitioners from the fields of
IT, design, and ethics, in order to identify and articulate the
ethical issues associated with the design, development, and deployment
of "smart" consumer products. The central question
this workshop will address is whether "smart" or "intelligent"
objects raise new, or highlight existing, ethical issues in terms
of their design, development, and deployment.
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How
do such technologies reshape notions of individual responsibility
and social trust?
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Who
will be liable for the actions of "autonomous" software
agents?
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Do
such artefacts require the use of sensitive information to
function appropriately?
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How
might this knowledge be applied in the manifestation of "smart"
or "intelligent" objects/systems/products?
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What
issues do wearable computers raise, given the sensitive information
that such devices might glean from privileged position on
the body of the user?
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....
Through
exploration of these and other questions, participants will attempt
to engage both the promise and the perils of ubiqutous "intelligent"
machines.
Topics
Topics
pertinent to the workshop include, but are not restricted to the
following:
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Design
Ethics
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Knowledge/Information
acquisition;
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Knowledge/Information
application;
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Intelligent
Systems/Products;
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Managerial
control of Information Technology
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Privacy
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Relationship
between the designer and the user;
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...
PHDIT'99
Program
Wednesday,
December 15, 1999
18h
00 - 19h 30: Opening Session
Event
driven Tele-Design society
Animated by Jacques Madelaine Jean Pierre Goulette, Khaldoun
Zreik
20h00:
Dinner
Thursday,
December 16, 1999
9h
00 - 10h30 : Session 1
The
Person and the Information Society
Louis Chamming's
The
Human aspects of technological change
Call Centers: A Case Study
Robert Scott
10h30
- 11h 00: Coffee Break
11h
00 - 12h30 : Session 2
Education
for Ethical Competence in Information Technology Design
Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos
Inter-organisational
design
P.P. Van Loon
12h30
- 14h 00: Lunch
14h
00 - 15h30 : Session 3
Technical
Deceit
Richard Coyne and Dorian Wiszniewski
Communications
by e-mail of View Strategies
Jean Charles Lebahar
15h30
- 16h 00: Coffee Break
16h
00 - 17h30 : Working Group Session 1
White
Book Project : Ethics in Information Technology Design
Animated by Richard Coyne Khaldoun Zreik
18h
00 - 19h30 : Working Group Session 2
Design,
Informatics and Ethics
Animated by Tufan Orel and Cherif Branki
20h00:
Dinner
Friday,
December 17, 1999
9h
00 - 10h30 : Session 4
Technology
and Science: The new model of "basic technology research"
based on design.
Artur Serra
Knowledge
acquisition or manifestation of the thought?
Cathedral builders and knowledge acquisition method designers
Francis Rousseaux StephaneLoiseau
10h30
- 11h 00: Coffee Break
11h
00 - 12h30 : Session 5
Enhancing
Trust Online
Kristiina Karvonen
Technology
Requiring Teleology
Gerard Lynch
12h30
- 14h 00: Lunch
14h
00 - 14h30 : Ending Session
PhDIT'99
International Advisory Board
Raymond
Bélanger, Department of Philosophy, Collège
Montmorency, Laval, Canada
Jean-Francois Blanchette,
Science and Technology Studies Departement, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, USA
Pierre Beust,
GREYC, University of Caen, France
Alan Bridges,
Department of Architecture, StraU.K
Louis Chamming's,
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France
Richard Coyne,
Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, U.K
John Lee,
Cognitive Sciences Department, University of Edinburgh, U.K
Tufan Orel,
Europia, Paris, France
Michael Smyth,
Department of Computing, Napier University, U.K
Vladimir Srdanovic,
Center of Multidisciplinary studies, University of Belgrad, Yougoslavia
Andree Woodcock, Colour
and Imaging Institute, University of Derby, U.K
Khaldoun Zreik,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Caen, France (Workshop
Chairman)
PhDIT'99
International Program Committee
Artur
Serra, Centre for Internet Applications (cANet), Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Reza
Beheshti, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, T.U.Delft,
N.L
Mario
Borillo, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Cherif
Branki, Department of Information System,, University of Paisley,
U.K
Malcolm
Crowe, Department of Information System, University of Paisley,
U.K
Yves
Dupont, Department of Sociology, University of Caen, France
Didier
Le GAll, Department of Sociology, University of Caen, France
Eric
Guichard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Farnce
Herve
LeCrosnier, GREYC, University of Caen, France
Jean-Pierre
Goulette, Li2A, Toulouse School of Architecture, France
Leglise
Michel, Li2A, Toulouse School of Architecture, France
Sid
Newton, School of Design, University of Western Sydney, Nepean,
Australia
Dominique
Scapin, INRIA, France
Bob
Scott, Department of Computer Sciences, Caledonian University,
U.K
Peter
Szalapaj, Department of Architecture, University of Sheffield,
U.K.
Christopher
Tweed, School of Architecture, Belfast, U.K.
Guillermo
Vasquez de Velasco, Department of Architecture, Texas AUniversity,
U.S.A.
Jean
Viver, Department of Psychology, University of CaenFrance
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