1. Evaluate how technologies and design may positively or negatively affect user behaviour and quality of life utilizing key concepts in applied ethics and philosophy of technology;
2. Utilize design ethics to analyze and refine aspects of design/prototype of a technological product within the context of the pillars of sustainability: social, environmental, and economic well-being
3. Engage in unbiased and critical discussion of the ethical implications of technological innovation and entrepreneurship within personal and professional contexts
4. Discuss considerations surrounding technological innovation in a global society.
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The Acting Responsibly Component for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will provide students an opportunity to critical assess and reflect upon the role of ethics in innovation, design, professional conduct, and successful entrepreneurship. Issues addressed are: ethical theory (the foundations for reasoning about ethical issues), key issues relevant for developing new technologies and innovations including privacy, paternalism, the ontology of design, and factors relevant for user well-being. Throughout the module we will consider case studies and theory in ethics and technology to explore and critically assess the relationship of innovation and entrepreneurship to the larger well-being of society as a whole.
Manual enrollment via Osiris is only for Creative Technology students. If you want to enroll, please contact Tamara Oukes (t.oukes@utwente.nl).
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