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Ethical Challenges with Welfare Technology: A Review of the Literature

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2012
Demographical changes in high income counties will increase the need of health care services but reduce the number of people to provide them. Welfare technology is launched as an important measure to meet this challenge. As with all types of technologies we must explore its ethical challenges.
Bjørn Hofmann, Hofmann Bjørn
exaly   +3 more sources

Approaches to welfare technology in municipal eldercare

Journal of Technology in Human Services, 2020
Welfare technologies have been proposed in Scandinavian countries as way to ensure accessible and efficient care to those who need it. Significant investments have been made to develop and deploy these technologies.
Susanne Frennert
exaly   +2 more sources

Implementation of welfare technology: a systematic review of barriers and facilitators

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2023
Purpose Although studies addressing barriers to and facilitators of implementation of welfare technology have been published, no systematic review synthesising evidence on such factors has been found.
Viktoria Zander, Christine Gustafsson, Sara Landerdahl Stridsberg   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Implementation of welfare technology: a state-of-the-art review of knowledge gaps and research needs

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2023
PURPOSE: To offer guidance for future welfare technology research, this review provides an overview of current knowledge gaps and research needs as reported in primary scientific studies addressing the implementation of welfare technology for older ...
Johan Borg, Christine Gustafsson, Sara Landerdahl Stridsberg   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The Welfare Impact of Targeted Advertising Technologies

Information Systems Research, 2022
We analyze the welfare implications of consumer data sharing, and restrictions to that sharing, in the context of online targeted advertising. Targeting technologies offer firms the ability to reach desired audiences through intermediary platforms. The platforms run auctions in real time to display ads on internet sites, leveraging consumers’ personal
Veronica Marotta, Yue Wu 0015, Kaifu Zhang, Alessandro Acquisti   +3 more
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Reproductive technologies and animal welfare

2020
In general, animal welfare and reproduction are strictly related. Numerous studies have reported that both chronic and acute stress and the associated reduced level of animal welfare may impair the reproductive functions in both males and females. For instance, stress can reduce the secretion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) by the hypothalamus
NAPOLITANO F., ARNEY D., MOTA-ROJAS D., DE ROSA G.   +3 more
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Information Technology (IT) and Welfare in India

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2020
The use of information technology (IT) in public administration is seen as a significant tool for improving efficiency, transparency and accountability and in popular rhetoric, and is often heralded as a necessary and sufficient condition for this. We study the use of various forms of IT such as computerization, public management information systems ...
Reetika Khera, Vineeth Patibandla
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