» Veröffentlicht am
4. Oktober 2022
New Publication by Sebastian Sattler on Rehabilitation Professionals’ Views on Brain-Computer Interfaces
Sample, M., Boehlen, W., Sattler, S., Racine, É., Blain-Moraes, S. (2022):
Brain-Computer Interfaces, Inclusive Innovation, and the Promise of
Restoration: A Mixed-Methods Study with Rehabilitation Professionals. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. ►LINK
ABSTRACT
Over
the last two decades, researchers have promised “neuroprosthetics” for
use in physical rehabilitation and to treat patients with paralysis.
Fulfilling this promise is not merely a technical challenge but is
accompanied by consequential practical, ethical, and social implications
that warrant sociological investigation and careful deliberation. In
response, this paper explores how rehabilitation professionals evaluate
the development and application of BCIs. It thereby also asks how the
BCIs come to be seen as desirable or not, and implicitly, what types of
persons, rights, and responsibilities are assumed in this discourse. To
this end, we conducted a web-based survey (N=135) and follow-up interviews (N=15)
with Canadian professionals in physical therapy, occupational therapy,
and speech-language pathology. We find that rehabilitation
professionals, like other publics, express hope and enthusiasm regarding
the use of BCIs for assistive purposes. They envision BCI devices as
powerful means to reintegrate patients and disabled people into social
life but also express practical and ethical reservations about the
technology, positioning themselves as uniquely qualified to inform
responsible BCI design and implementation. These results further
illustrate the nascent “co-production” of neural technologies and social
order. More immediately, they also pose a serious challenge for
implementing frameworks of responsible innovation; merely prescribing
more inclusive technology development may not counteract technocratic
processes and widely held ableist views about the need to augment
certain bodies using technology.
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Forscher*innen-Generationen (von links nach rechts): Prof. Lutz
Leisering, PhD, Prof. Dr. Alexandra Kaasch und Prof. em. Dr.
Franz-Xaver Kaufmann 
