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Niki Chatzipanagiotou. Foto

Niki Chatzipanagiotou

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Ethical and Legal Challenges of Holographic Communication Technologies

Author

  • Natalia Giogiou
  • Niki Chatzipanagiotou
  • Alvin Jude

Editor

  • Teresa Guarda
  • Filipe Portela
  • Jose Maria Diaz-Nafria

Summary, in English

The paper presents ethical and legal challenges of holographic communication technologies and suggests a framework to address them. Holographic communications enable the capturing of a user’s 3D depiction via special equipment, and its high-quality transmission to another user located elsewhere, introducing a distinctive data communication experience. Their wrongful use could compromise basic human rights. Qualitative research was conducted through interviews with ethics and legal experts in Sweden and Greece, and document analysis. The collected data were analyzed thematically and discussed within the framework of Ethical Technology Assessment (eTA). The findings show that the main challenges are privacy and data protection. The design phase and users’ participation in the process of the development of holographic communication technologies were found to have a vital role in the ethical and respectful of the law use of them. Similar challenges and frameworks of existing technologies can serve as the basis to develop a new framework. Challenges in formulating a common framework, though, due to contextual, societal and geographical differences were also found. Thus, the research contributes to the informatics field by providing insights and extending the knowledge about the use of holographic communication technologies. It contributes practically to designers, developers, technology companies, and other interested stakeholders as it shortens the knowledge gap concerning the prospective ethical and legal issues posed by this technology and provides suggestions of an ethical-legal framework to address them.

Department/s

  • Department of Informatics

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

275-289

Publication/Series

Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)

Volume

1936

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Keywords

  • Informatics
  • Information Systems
  • Digital Ethics

Conference name

Third International Conference, ARTIIS 2023

Conference date

2023-10-18 - 2023-10-20

Conference place

Madrid, Spain

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1865-0937
  • ISSN: 1865-0929
  • ISBN: 978-3-031-48854-2
  • ISBN: 978-3-031-48855-9