title: Smart-Glasses: Exposing and Elucidating the Ethical Issues.
abstract: The objective of this study is to provide an overview over the ethical issues relevant to the assessment, implementation, and use of smart-glasses. The purpose of the overview is to facilitate deliberation, decision making, and the formation of knowledge and norms for this emerging technology. An axiological question-based method for human cognitive enhancement including an extensive literature search on smart-glasses is used to identify relevant ethical issues. The search is supplemented with relevant ethical issues identified in the literature on human cognitive enhancement (in general) and in the study of the technical aspects of smart-glasses. Identified papers were subject to traditional content analysis: 739 references were identified of which 247 were regarded as relevant for full text examinations, and 155 were included in the study. A wide variety of ethical issues with smart-glasses have been identified, such as issues related to privacy, safety, justice, change in human agency, accountability, responsibility, social interaction, power and ideology. Smart-glasses are envisioned to change individual human identity and behavior as well as social interaction. Taking these issues into account appears to be relevant when developing, deliberating, deciding on, implementing, and using smart-glasses.
authors.affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway. b.m.hofmann@medisin.uio.no.|Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, PO Box 1130, 0318, Blindern, Oslo, Norway. b.m.hofmann@medisin.uio.no.
authors.forename: Bjørn
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6709-4265
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.affiliation: Man-Machine Interaction, New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Dušan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Haustein
authors.affiliation: Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA), Oslo, Norway.|Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Laurens
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Landeweerd
mesh_terms: D005139:Eyeglasses / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends
keywords: Agency; Authenticity; Autonomy; Privacy; Safety; Smart-glasses