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Background: This preparatory study accelerates an implementation of individualized monitoring and feedback of physical motion using conventional motion trackers in the rehabilitation process of geriatric trauma patients. Regaining mobility is accompanied with improved quality of life in persons of very advanced age recovering from fragility fractures.
Objectives: Quantitative survey of regaining physical mobility provides recommendations for action on how to use motion trackers effectively in a clinical geriatric setting.
Methods: Method mix of quantitative and qualitative interdisciplinary and mutual complementary research approaches (sociology, health research, philosophy/ethics, medical informatics, nursing science, gerontology and physical therapy). While validating motion tracker use in geriatric traumatology preliminary data are used to develop a target group oriented motion feedback. In addition measurement accuracy of a questionnaire about quality of life of multimorbid geriatric patients (FLQM) is tested.
Conclusion: Implementing a new technology in a complex clinical setting needs to be based on a strong theoretical background but will not succeed without careful field testing.
This article highlights methodological and ethical challenges in research with adults of older and oldest age, by presenting field experiences of the current research project “Motion Monitoring of Geriatric Trauma Patients - Explorative Study on the Rehabilitation Process after Hip Fracture Using Sensor-based Data”. Depiction of the survey situation, with regard to the subjects in particular, can serve as practical examples for designing future research projects.
The group of older adults is a rather large and growing group for which research is required, especially concerning their heterogeneity, their individual autonomy and quality of life. It is assumed, that research designs of studies on the target group must be specifically adjusted, in particular when considering the attribution of vulnerability of the group members. At the same time, it is not clear yet what exact specifics of the subjects and target group must be considered in research designs, as surprisingly little is known about the target group as subjects and corresponding theories have been insufficiently tested.
The exploratory long-term design of the research project presented in the second section of this chapter has a positive evaluation of an ethics committee. Still ethical challenges occurred in the field situation, that are illustrated in the third section of this chapter, by providing information on the patients, their role as research subjects, how they were recruited, how an informed consensus was reached, and in some cases how participation was rejected or abandoned. After a summary, the end of the paper is marked by recommendations on how to design future research projects.
Cumulatively it must always be expected that interaction between researchers and research subjects of this target group can become very intensive, what requires to follow clearly defined procedures and at the same time to be prepared to act flexibly.
The growing complexity of the digital ecosystem in combination with increasing global risks has created the following dilemma. Overemphasizing cybersecurity may violate fundamental values
like equality, fairness, freedom, or privacy but neglecting cybersecurity could undermine citizens’ trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure as well as in policy makers and state authorities. In order to increase our understanding of this dilemma, this contribution aims to provide an overview on value conflicts in cybersecurity based on a systematic review on the ethical, legal and
technological literature on cybersecurity. It shall be emphasized that a focus on the opposition of cybersecurity vs. privacy is insufficient for understanding the ethical complexity of cybersecurity.
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Hat die Coronapandemie samt ihren veränderten gesellschaftlichen Freiheitsbedingungen Einfluss auf die Autonomie von Frauen genommen? Und wie reflektieren Frauen, denen allgemein eine größere Belastung durch z. B. durch gesundheitliche Folgen der Pandemie und sorge- sowie lohnarbeitsbezogenen Aufgaben zugerechnet wird, ihre Autonomiechancen während der Krise? Die Analyse orientiert sich an vier theoretischen Komplexen, die mit dem Pandemieerleben verbunden werden: (1) neue Bedingungen für Freiheit und Autonomie, (2) Belastungen für Frauen, (3) persönliche Neuausrichtung und Selbstbestimmung sowie (4) die Rolle digitaler Technologien und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Der Beitrag, der auf qualitativen Interviewdaten basiert, zeigt, dass die befragten Frauen sich nicht in singulären Lebenspraktiken verorten, sondern während und jenseits pandemischer Zeiten Gemeinschaft als zentralen Wert erachten, der Sinn stiftet. Die Pandemie hat, wenn sie auch Situationen der Fremdbestimmung evoziert hat, für die Frauen daher keinen tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf ihr eigenes Autonomieerleben. Vergeschlechtlichte Prinzipien der Organisation von Sorgearbeit (Care) wurden überraschenderweise kaum problematisiert, auch die Rolle von Digitalität und künstlicher Intelligenz scheint die Autonomiepraxis in der Praxis nur peripher zu berühren; die Suche nach Autonomie ist vielmehr eine andauernde persönliche Aufgabe und Herausforderung im Leben der Frauen.