Stakeholders’ Views on Responsible Assessments of Assistive Technologies through an Ethical HTA Matrix

Thorstensen, Erik

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“…For more information about the design of the project and results, see also Zouganeli et al2017 [ 34 ]. Holthe et al [ 16 , 35 , 36 ], Casagrande [ 7 ], Holthe [ 12 ] and Thorstensen [ 37 ].…”

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Involving older adults in technology research and development discussions through dialogue cafés

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Background Citizen involvement is important for ensuring the relevance and quality of many research and innovation efforts. Literature shows that inadequate citizen involvement poses an obstacle during the research, development, and implementation of assistive technology. Previous studies have addressed the advantages and disadvantages of citizen engagement in health research and technology development, and there is concern about how to ensure valuable engagement to avoid situations where they don’t have influence. Frail older adults are often excluded from being active partners in research projects. The overall objective of this commentary is to describe a case where dialogue cafés was used as a method for involving assisted living residents in technology discussions, elaborating on the following research question: In what ways are dialogue cafés useful for directing research and development and for engaging residents in assisted living facilities in assistive technology discussions? Method Six dialogue cafés with assisted living residents as participants were carried out over a period of 3 years (2016–19). Reports that were written after each café by the group leaders and rapporteurs provide the material for the analyses in this paper. Results This study demonstrates an example of facilitating user involvement where the participants felt useful by contributing to research and discussions on assistive technology and where this contribution in fact directed the research and development in the overall Assisted Living Project. Conclusion This study demonstrated that dialogue cafés enable older residents at an assisted living facility to contribute with opinions about their needs and perspectives on assistive technologies. This negates the view of older adults as too frail to participate and demonstrates the importance of including and collaborating with older adults in research.

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“…Much attention has been payed to question as to what are the most useful and promising solutions [1,2]; how to successfully deploy novel technologies [3]; and different perspectives on the ideals of active ageing and ageing at home [4]. However, the underlying values for the selection of useful and promising technologies and their relations to the ideals of the good life seems still to be an area where a tacit consensus reigns [5]. Dimensions of the good life is central to assessing the value of assistive technologies [6].…”

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Thorstensen¹,

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Halvorsrud

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging

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This article is a contribution to the reflection upon what forms of assistive technologies societies should provide to users of home-based services. The material is collected from five focus group interviews conducted in Oslo in 2016 as part of a research project into assistive technologies with the purpose to gain knowledge of how such technologies were used in the home-based services. The interviews are analyzed on the basis of Martha Nussbaum's capability approach in order to see what forms of technologies influenced the users' capabilities. Thereafter, the technologies are classified as either public or private technologies in order to see what forms of capabilities the public care for and which technologies that are in the domain of private initiative. Based on the focus groups, it seems that public technologies are targeted at bodily health and integrity, while private technologies on communication and infrastructure, with some notable exceptions. The paper ends with discussions on the seemingly paradoxical situation that publicly supported technologies aim at the private sphere while the privately acquired technologies focus on public activities.

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Technische und menschliche Unterstützung von Menschen mit Behinderungen – Anforderungen an eine gelingende Inklusion

Bratan

Nierling²,

Maia³

2022

Gesundheit. Politik - Gesellschaft - Wirtschaft

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Stakeholders’ Views on Responsible Assessments of Assistive Technologies through an Ethical HTA Matrix

Cited by 8 publications

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Involving older adults in technology research and development discussions through dialogue cafés

Involving older adults in technology research and development discussions through dialogue cafés

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Technische und menschliche Unterstützung von Menschen mit Behinderungen – Anforderungen an eine gelingende Inklusion

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