Naturalness in Human Cognitive Enhancement
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
EEA/Norwegian Financial Mechanism
Call for proposals
Finanční mechanismy EHP/Norsko 1 (SMSM20147F1)
Main participants
Západočeská univerzita v Plzni / Nové technologie - výzkumné centrum
Contest type
VS - Public tender
Contract ID
MSMT-44124/2015-1
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Naturalness in Human Cognitive Enhancement
Annotation in Czech
The goal of the project is to create a fully-fledged philosophically grounded and transparent framework for description, assessment and forecast of acceptability of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) systems. 1) Create an open-access scalable knowledge base of all publicly available HCE systems, including announced future plans, abandoned projects, media coverage and public impact. 2) Analyse and redefine the concepts of natural, unnatural and artificial and create a formal decision-making process for unbiased classification of HCE systems into these categories. 3) Summarize ethical issues of HCE and propose directions for evaluation of ethical aspects of ubiquitous HCE systems with mass-market plans or potential. 4) Scrutinize the reciprocal relationship between HCE and core concepts like health, disease and ageing, and scrutinize how these concepts influence acceptability of HCE. 5) Propose a methodological framework of HCE system assessment based on its naturalness estimation, ethical evaluation andrelation to the health/disease/ageing category. 6) Prepare recommendations for regulation and governance in the HCE field. 7) Empirically test and adjust the HCE assessment framework by experiments with speech synthesis voice conservation of oncologicalpatients after total laryngectomy. 8) Empirically test and adjust the HCE assessment framework by experiments with augmented reality glasses.
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
CEP classification - main branch
AA - Philosophy and religion
CEP - secondary branch
JD - Use of computers, robotics and its application
CEP - another secondary branch
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OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
20204 - Robotics and automatic control<br>20205 - Automation and control systems<br>60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology<br>60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)<br>60303 - Theology<br>60304 - Religious studies
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
V - Vynikající výsledky projektu (s mezinárodním významem atd.)
Project results evaluation
The overall results of HCENAT are persuasive and they contribute – generally speaking – to human development in a significant way. Results are not only of scientific relevance but have also societal impact: new health technology was developed and a new educative instrument (on-line encyclopedia) was produced. The main aim of Norway grants, i.e. to set up a Czech-Norwegian research team who followed a societal relevant research topic and produces relevant results was fulfilled. The overall project rating is outstanding.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Nov 1, 2014
Realization period - end
Apr 30, 2017
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Apr 10, 2017
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP18-MSM-7F-U/05:1
Data delivery date
Nov 21, 2018
Finance
Total approved costs
29,950 thou. CZK
Public financial support
26,547 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
3,403 thou. CZK