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(2015) Ubiquitous computing in the workplace, Dordrecht, Springer.
Fundamental ethical issues regarding ambient intelligence concern the conditions of an ethical discourse, the identity of the acting individual, the awareness of the sphere in which the individual should act, and finally the individual's choice, which is necessary for his or her responsibility. Augmented reality exacerbates the problem of the loss of resistance and horizon which characterize what the German term "Wirklichkeit" means. Only the hyletic, social, or ideal resistance against our will to shape the world and the horizon of connected systems guarantees "Wirklichkeit," but not the real, concrete given thing, because there is always a possibility of misjudging it in perception. We are confronted with a loss of the horizon, in which we have to act. The old paradigm of an embedded technology is coming to a critical point now, if smart systems shape the world for us without a possibility to control and guide this shaping. Autonomous systems have a capacity to incapacitate the user.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13452-9_3
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Wiegerling, K. (2015)., The question of ethics in ambient intelligence, in , Ubiquitous computing in the workplace, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 37-44.
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