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A note on ethical aspects of BCI
This paper focuses on ethical aspects of BCI, as a research and a clinical tool, that are challenging for practitioners currently working in the field. Specifically, the difficulties involved in acquiring informed consent from locked-in patients are investigated, in combination with an analysis of the shared moral responsibility in BCI teams, and the complications encountered in establishing effective communication with media.
@article{5959, title = {A note on ethical aspects of BCI}, journal = {Neural Networks}, abstract = {This paper focuses on ethical aspects of BCI, as a research and a clinical tool, that are challenging for practitioners currently working in the field. Specifically, the difficulties involved in acquiring informed consent from locked-in patients are investigated, in combination with an analysis of the shared moral responsibility in BCI teams, and the complications encountered in establishing effective communication with media.}, volume = {22}, number = {9}, pages = {1352-1357}, organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft}, school = {Biologische Kybernetik}, month = nov, year = {2009}, slug = {5959}, author = {Haselager, P. and Vlek, R. and Hill, J. and Nijboer, F.}, month_numeric = {11} }