Kärki Anne, Sävel Jaana, Sallinen Merja, Kuusinen Jere
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Pori, Finland.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;189:50-5.
ICT innovations are constantly developed, and there is no lack of elderly customers, as the number of the elderly is dramatically increasing. Elderly are willing to use ICT to increase their own safety and social activity, but they need trust on the reliability, accessibility and other ethical aspects of ICT including the maintenance of privacy and self-determination. Ethical standards for ICT are usually not considered. "Ethicted" characterizes an ICT service or product as ethically evaluated. As a standardized procedure, it will not only increase the acceptability of ICT, but also provide services for ICT developers. In the future scenario, ICT under development should be evaluated by using a process model that is specifically built to find the lacks in ethical aspects. The model would then be tested by end-users, the formal and informal care givers, to receive direct feedback for redeveloping solutions. As final outcomes, there should be standards for ICT in elderly care and a service for ICT developers to utilize the evaluation model. This future scenario work included partners from 6 EU member countries. The combination of academic research and industrial/commercial interest of ICT developers should and can bring new value to assistive ICT for elderly care.
信息通信技术（ICT）创新不断发展，而且老年客户并不匮乏，因为老年人数量正在急剧增加。老年人愿意使用ICT来提高自身安全性和社交活动能力，但他们需要对ICT在可靠性、可及性以及包括隐私保护和自主决定权维护等其他伦理方面予以信任。ICT的伦理标准通常未被考虑。“经过伦理考量”将一项ICT服务或产品描述为经过伦理评估。作为一种标准化程序，它不仅会提高ICT的可接受性，还将为ICT开发者提供服务。在未来设想中，正在开发的ICT应通过一种专门构建的流程模型进行评估，该模型旨在找出伦理方面的不足。然后，该模型将由终端用户、正式和非正式护理人员进行测试，以获取用于重新开发解决方案的直接反馈。作为最终成果，应该有针对老年护理中ICT的标准以及一项供ICT开发者使用评估模型的服务。这个未来设想工作包括来自6个欧盟成员国的合作伙伴。学术研究与ICT开发者的产业/商业利益的结合应该而且能够为老年护理辅助ICT带来新价值。
