Monitoring technologies in palliative care: ethical and legal aspects (workshop)
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Abstract
We invite medical professionals and students, formal and informal carers with experience in palliative care, to join us to discuss the use of monitoring AI technologies in this field. We aim to gain insights into the experiences of you, healthcare practitioners and carers involved in palliative care treatment. Our aim is to develop monitoring technologies that account for your values and lived-experiences using these devices.
The event will consist of an initial keynote talk on the topic of monitoring technologies in palliative care, followed by a workshop on Value-Sensitive Design to formulate design requirements for the technology. Finally, there will be two brief talks on the ethical and legal aspects of monitoring technologies for palliative care.
The research workshop will entail working both individually and in groups. All insights will be collected anonymously. We thank you in advance for your time, insights, and participation.
Date & time: 21 April 2026, 14:00 to 18:00
Location: WorkLounge, Panská 2, 110 00 Prague 1
Programme:
14:00 - 15:00: Keynote speaker (tbd)
15:00 - 17:00: Workshop
17:00 - 17:15: Coffee Break
17:15 - 18:00: 2 short talks on ethical and legal aspects
Language: English
Registration: mail to guerrero.quinones@flu.cas.cz
By participating in this workshop, you will contribute to research done through HOLDEN, an international European Innovation Grant with the goal of creating ethical radio frequency wave holography. Essentially, partners in the project are developing technology to use WIFI to monitor those moving through the environment.
HOLDEN team investigates how radio frequency ubiquitous sensing can be used to make ethical, value embedded palliative care systems. Additionally, we are studying how medical care professionals and loved ones of palliative care patients approach the issue of ethical design and what methodologies may empower morality driven science.
Participation involves anonymized contribution through digital surveys and observational notes. Anonymous quotations may be used for our research. Collaborators may stop participating at any time, even after signing the consent form. We offer tea, coffee, and snacks as we discuss the potential of this emerging technology.
What Happens with the Data?
Observational notes and form responses will be organized and further anonymized (if necessary). This dataset will be used for continued research related to RF Monitoring.
Organisers:
• IRLaB (Dr Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Dr Jose Luis Guerrero Quiñones, Dr Atefeh Bagherian)
• University of Twente (Dr Sage Cammers-Goodwin)
Contact persons:
s.i.cammers-goodwin@utwente.nl
guerrero.quinones@flu.cas.cz
dierckxsens@flu.cas.cz
Who Are We?
HOLDEN is an international European Innovation Grant with the goal of creating ethical radio frequency wave holography. Essentially, partners in the project are developing technology to use WIFI to monitor the physical environment.
• More on HOLDEN
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Grant Agreement No: 101099491.
