Realizing a video environment: EuroPARC's RAVE system
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Teaching computer ethics
Face recognition: A literature survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Design for privacy in ubiquitous computing environments
ECSCW'93 Proceedings of the third conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
A self-configuring privacy management architecture for pervasive systems
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Mobility management and wireless access
Human-Computer Interaction
Designing spheres of informational justice
Ethics and Information Technology
Designing secure sensor networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
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Information technology is widely used to fulfill societal goals such as safety and security. These application areas put ever changing demands on the functionality of the technology. Designing technological appliances to be reconfigurable, thereby keeping them open to functionalities yet to be determined, will possibly allow the technology to fulfill these changing demands in an efficient way. In this paper we present a first exploration of potential societal and moral issues of reconfigurable sensors developed for application in the safety and security domain, in the context of a large scale R&D-project in the Netherlands. We discuss the subtle distinction between the relevant notions of reconfigurability, function creep, and unrestricted or unforeseen technological affordances. We argue that the feature of reconfigurability makes context of use the central issue in the assessment of the societal and moral impact of the technology. It follows that the design of good policies for new application contexts has to be central in a value sensitive design approach to reconfigurable technology.