Citation

Martín-Ruíz ML, Fernández-Aller C, Portillo E, Malagón J, del Barrio C. Sci. Eng. Ethics 2018; 24(4): 1057-1076.

Affiliation

Research Group INEXE: Inclusión y exclusión educativa [Inclusion and Exclusion in Education], Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco. C/ Iván Pavlov 6, 28049, Madrid, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Opragen Publications)

DOI

10.1007/s11948-017-9951-x

PMID

28815460

Abstract

EDUCERE (Ubiquitous Detection Ecosystem to Care and Early Stimulation for Children with Developmental Disorders) is a government funded research and development project. EDUCERE objectives are to investigate, develop, and evaluate innovative solutions for society to detect changes in psychomotor development through the natural interaction of children with toys and everyday objects, and perform stimulation and early attention activities in real environments such as home and school. In the EDUCERE project, an ethical impact assessment is carried out linked to a minors' data protection rights. Using a specific methodology, the project has achieved some promising results. These include use of a prototype of smart toys to detect development difficulties in children. In addition, privacy protection measures which take into account the security concerns of health data, have been proposed and applied. This latter security framework could be useful in other Internet of Things related projects. It consists of legal and technical measures. Special attention has been placed in the transformation of bulk data such as acceleration and jitter of toys into health data when patterns of atypical development are found. The article describes the different security profiles in which users are classified.

Language: en

Keywords

Big data; Internet of things; Motor development; Privacy; Security