TY - JOUR AU - Birchley, Giles AU - Huxtable, Richard AU - Murtagh, Madeleine AU - ter Meulen, Ruud AU - Flach, Peter AU - Gooberman-Hill, Rachael PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/04 TI - Smart homes, private homes? An empirical study of technology researchers’ perceptions of ethical issues in developing smart-home health technologies JO - BMC Medical Ethics SP - 23 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Smart-home technologies, comprising environmental sensors, wearables and video are attracting interest in home healthcare delivery. Development of such technology is usually justified on the basis of the technology’s potential to increase the autonomy of people living with long-term conditions. Studies of the ethics of smart-homes raise concerns about privacy, consent, social isolation and equity of access. Few studies have investigated the ethical perspectives of smart-home engineers themselves. By exploring the views of engineering researchers in a large smart-home project, we sought to contribute to dialogue between ethics and the engineering community. SN - 1472-6939 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-017-0183-z DO - 10.1186/s12910-017-0183-z ID - Birchley2017 ER -