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Arto Laitinen, Otto Sahlgren
This study concerns the sociotechnical bases of human autonomy. Drawing on recent literature on AI ethics, philosophical literature on dimensions of autonomy, and on independent philosophical scrutiny, we first propose a multi-dimensional model of human autonomy and then discuss how AI systems can support or hinder…
Elli Zey, Sabine Windmann
In the age of artificial intelligence, the common interest in human autonomy is experiencing a revival. Autonomy has formerly and mostly been investigated from a theoretical scientific perspective, in which scholars from various disciplines have linked autonomy with the concepts of dignity, independence from others…
Kerianne L. Hobbs, Joseph B. Lyons, Martin S. Feather, Benjamen P Bycroft + 6 more
'Benjamen P Bycroft' 'Sean Phillips' 'Michelle Simon' 'Mark Harter' 'Kenneth A. Costello' 'Yuri Gawdiak' 'Stephen Paine'] Abstract—Technology Readiness Levels are a mainstay for organizations that fund, develop, test, acquire, or use technologies. Technology Readiness Levels provide a standardized assessment of a…
Jason M. Pittman
Contemporary artificial intelligence systems are pivotal in enhancing human efficiency and safety across various domains. One such domain is autonomous systems, especially in automotive and defense use cases. Artificial intelligence brings learning and enhanced decision-making to autonomy systems' goal-oriented…
Elisabeth M. A. Späth, Karin R. Jongsma
Autonomy of people on the autism-spectrum has only been very rarely conceptually explored. Autism spectrum is commonly considered a hetereogenous disorder, and typically described as a behaviorally-defined neurodevelopmental disorder associated with the presence of social-communication deficits and restricted and…
Leah Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann DeVito
Participant Knowledge Authors: ['Leah Ajmani' 'Talia Bhatt' 'Michael Ann DeVito'] Justice, epistemology, and marginalization are rich areas of study in HCI. And yet, we repeatedly find platforms and algorithms that push communities further into the margins. In this paper, we propose epistemic autonomy–—one's ability to…
Joseph T. F. Roberts
In light of the variety of uses of the term autonomy in recent bioethics literature, in this paper, I suggest that competence, not being as contested, is better placed to play the anti-paternalistic role currently assigned to autonomy. The demonstration of competence, I will argue, can provide individuals with robust…
Dan Bennett, Oussama Metatla, Anne Roudaut, Elisa D. Mekler
Human agency and autonomy have always been fundamental concepts in HCI. New developments, including ubiquitous AI and the growing integration of technologies into our lives, make these issues ever pressing, as technologies increase their ability to influence our behaviours and values. However, in HCI understandings of…
Keiji Ota, Lucie Charles, Patrick Haggard
The capacity for autonomous behaviour is key to human intelligence, and fundamental to modern social life. However, experimental investigations of the cognitive bases of human autonomy are challenging, because experimental paradigms typically constrain behaviour using controlled contexts, and elicit behaviour by…
Aleksander Lodwich
he quantification of system autonomy is deemed desirable as measure of performance of products. The term autonomous proposes to customers the idea that they will spend less time and effort on monitoring a system or fixing problems observed during its operation. Additional benefits of autonomy are considered the ability…
Nasser Gyagenda, Hubert Roth
—Although autonomous functioning facilitates deployment of robotic systems in domains that admit limited human oversight on our planet and beyond, finding correspondence between task requirements and autonomous capability is still an open challenge. Consequently, a number of methods for quantifying autonomy have been…
Adriana Salatino, Arthur Prével, Émilie Caspar, Salvatore Lo Bue
Autonomous systems have pervaded many aspects of human activities. However, research suggest that the interaction with those machines may influence human decision-making processes. These effects raise ethical concerns in moral situations. We created an ad hoc setup to investigate the effects of system autonomy on moral…
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This comprehensive review examines the evolution of autonomous materials synthesis laboratories that integrate artificial intelligence with advanced robotics to accelerate discovery. Traditional materials development pipelines typically require 10-20 years, but self-driving laboratories (SDLs) and Materials…
Sandy Thompson-Hodgetts, Jacalyn Ryan, Emily Coombs, Heather M. Brown + 5 more
4.## Discussion Self-determination is a basic human right that is associated with many positive outcomes that can improve one’s quality of life. Unfortunately, research consistently shows that Autistic people experience less self-determination than non-autistic people, attributed to both decreased opportunity and…
Saptarshi Sinha, Alex Farfel, Kathryn E. Luker, Debashis Sahoo + 4 more
Self-sufficiency (autonomy) in growth signaling, the earliest recognized hallmark of cancer, is fuelled by the tumor cell’s ability to ‘secrete-and-sense’ growth factors; this translates into cell survival and proliferation that is self-sustained by auto-/paracrine secretion. Using breast cancer cells that are either…
Simona Chiodo
We continuously talk about autonomous technologies. But how can words qualifying technologies be the very same words chosen by Kant to define what is essentially human, i.e. being autonomous? The article focuses on a possible answer by reflecting upon both etymological and philosophical issues, as well as upon the case…
Xiaoli Chen, Miaoxiao Wang, Laipeng Luo, Xiaonan Liu + 3 more
From microbes to humans, all organisms perform numerous tasks for their survival, including food acquisition, migration, and reproduction. A complex biological task can be performed by either an autonomous organism or cooperation among several specialized organisms. However, it remains unclear how Autonomy and…
Hubert Makaruk, Jared M. Porter, Jerzy Sadowski, Anna Bodasińska + 3 more
The penalty kick is of great importance in the sport of soccer. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test predictions of the OPTIMAL theory and identify key attentional and motivational factors that impact the accuracy of the penalty kick. The following six groups of skilled participants performed penalty kicks…
Rafael A. Paiva, António G. G. Sousa, Camila V. Ramos, Mariana Ávila + 3 more
T lymphocyte differentiation in the thymus relies on high cellular turnover, which is enforced by cell competition. If deprived of competent progenitors, the thymus can maintain thymopoiesis autonomously for several weeks but this bears a high risk of leukemia. Here we show that double negative 3 early (DN3e)…
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In experimental chemistry, actions are adjusted based on what we see—such as dosing until dissolution, heating until melting, or stirring until mixing is complete. However, current self-driving labs (SDLs) do not monitor these visual cues. HeinSight 4.0 fills this gap by integrating computer vision into SDLs to enable…
Jonathan Zaslavsky, Pauric Bannigan, Christine Allen
Introduction Interest in nanomedicines has surged in recent years due to the critical role they have played in the COVID-19 pandemic. Nanoformulations can turn promising therapeutic cargo into viable products through improvements in drug safety and efficacy profiles. However, the developmental pathway for such…
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Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise accelerated scientific discovery and product development by closing the loop between robotic execution and AI/ML-driven decision making. In practice, however, SDL orchestration remains fragmented; workflows are typically encoded as laboratory-specific scripts or bespoke…
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Since their discovery in 2004, there has been remarkable progress in research on nanomotors starting with the elucidation of different propulsion mechanisms to the study of their collective behavior, culminating in investigations into their applications in biomedicine and environmental remediation. This perspective…
Alejandro A. Franco, Emilie Loup-Escande, Goran Loiseaux, Jean-Noël Chotard + 5 more
We present two digital-based serious games aiming to engage students and the general public with battery sciences. The first one is a multiscale simulator in Mixed Reality of a battery-powered Electric Vehicle (EV) interacting with an Electrical Grid. One of the players drives the EV in a Virtual Reality (VR)…