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Can a Robot Provide the Answer? Ethical Considerations in Using Social Robots for Assessment and Monitoring in Healthcare

Social robots in healthcareAcademicdocument

Assessment outcome

total 3/4 (actionability 1 + authority 2); currency unscored, so pro-rated to 4.5/6

Total3/6
Actionability1/2
Authority2/2
Currency—

Authorship & scope

Attribution (G4 evidence)

The text clearly identifies Heike Felzmann as the author of the chapter.

Issuer authority (evidence)

Level 2: Published as a peer-reviewed book chapter by Springer from an academic author at NUI Galway.

Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

HTTP 200, 2199 words of full text extracted

G2 · AI nexuspass

The source is explicitly about social robots used for healthcare assessment and monitoring.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

The source addresses ethical challenges, values, privacy, and value-sensitive design regarding social robots.

G4 · Attributablepass

The text clearly identifies Heike Felzmann as the author of the chapter.

G5 · In forcepass

There is no indication on the page that this version has been superseded or withdrawn.

Scored criteria

Actionability

1/2

Score 1: Provides general principles and directional recommendations (value-sensitive design, tailored training) without setting binding, actionable obligations.

It will be argued that in order to address the ethical concerns effectively, value-sensitive design and deployment planning as well as tailored training of professionals to use those robots are essential requirements.

Authority

2/2

Level 2: Published as a peer-reviewed book chapter by Springer from an academic author at NUI Galway.

School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland Heike Felzmann

Currency

—

computed: no publish/modified date found on the page (never guessed)

Classification

Coverage topicSocial robots in healthcare
PerspectiveAcademic
Lifecycle stage7 Use & impact
Layermodel
Granularitydocument