Journal
Digital Society
Digital Society publishes articles on topics related to governance, transformations, environments, and developments of digital technology and their implications for society.
Our daily interactions with the environment are mediated through technologies that collect, process, and store personal data. Living in a ‘digital society’ means thus sharing intimate information and moments with automated systems and relying on such technology in mundane as well as critical moments. The design of such systems has important consequences, not only with respect to how private information is handled and shared but also with respect to how much trust is (sometimes misguidedly) placed on automated systems. Interdisciplinary research on how to design technology that is privacy-friendly, trustworthy, and benefits society is thus required. In this topical collection, we seek interdisciplinary contributions that critically examine how automated systems change the way we live, work, care, and interact with each other. We are interested in contributions that focus on how privacy and trust are challenged and conceptualized through the increased reliance on automated systems and its implications on design. We particularly encourage submissions on emerging automated systems applied to vulnerable groups such as seniors and children, with ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies as the key technology of interest (i.e., audio-based and video-based applications to monitor elderly or frail people). The topical collection will seek to cover but is not limited to the following aspects: Research on system trust (i.e., trust between humans and automation) and link to privacy and data protection Ethical, legal, and societal aspects of trustworthy and privacy-friendly automation Empirical studies of privacy and trust of interactive systems Design approaches to support system trust and trustworthiness Personalization of privacy and transparency requirements and its impact on system trust Design for privacy and transparency Usable privacy and security and their implications for systems trust Overtrust in automation and its implications Issues of unequal access to and benefits from privacy-friendly and trustworthy automation among different population groups
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Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux
Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. She has a background in law and economics and has specialized in research at the intersection of law and digital technologies with a particular focus on privacy, data protection, design approaches for privacy-friendly technologies, transparency of automated decision-making, automatically processable regulation, and trust in automation. Aurelia’s scientific publications on those subjects are open access and she has presented her research at numerous international conferences.
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Anton Fedosov
Anton Fedosov is a postdoctoral interaction design researcher at the People and Computing Lab at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His research interests lie at the intersection of social aspects of ubiquitous computing, design-oriented human-computer interaction, and privacy-focused user experience design of interactive systems and services. He actively publishes in top-tier computing venues such as ACM CHI, CSCW, DIS, GROUP, MobileHCI, and Ubicomp.
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga
Eduard Fosch-Villarongais an Assistant Professor at the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University (NL), where he investigates legal and regulatory aspects of robot and AI technologies, with a special focus on healthcare. Eduard is interested in human-robot interaction, responsible innovation, and the future of law, and his work is widely in top-tier journals like Nature Machine Intelligence, Technological Forecasting & Social Change
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Christoph Lutz
Christoph Lutz is an associate professor at the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society within the Department of Communication & Culture, BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo). His research interests include digital inequality, online participation, privacy, the sharing economy, and social robots. Christoph has published widely in top-tier journals in this area such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Big Data & Society, Science and Engineering Ethics, and the Journal of Management Information Systems.
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Anto Čartolovni
Anto Čartolovni is research group and Digit-HeaL lab. leader. Assistant professor at the School of Medicine at the Catholic University of Croatia. He received his PhD in Bioethics in 2016 from the Institute for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University Sacred Heart in Rome. His main research areas are Ethics of emerging technologies, Philosophy of technology, Bioethics, Neuroethics and Philosophy of medicine. He has published extensively on various topics in bioethics, philosophy and ethics of emerging technologies etc
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