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View article: The influence of macroscopic pedestrian structures on train boarding efficiency
The influence of macroscopic pedestrian structures on train boarding efficiency Open
A deeper understanding of pedestrian dynamics is essential to improve crowd flows in public spaces such as train stations. It is essential to understand both the physical and the psychological processes present in this context. However, cu…
View article: System-Phenomenology
System-Phenomenology Open
Postphenomenology and mediation theory strongly explain the micro-level interactions between human individuals and objects. Recently, humans as a collective have been added to the theory at the political macro-level, which we argue that is…
View article: Investigating sociophysical attributes underlying train boarding efficiency and their importance for nudging
Investigating sociophysical attributes underlying train boarding efficiency and their importance for nudging Open
Nudging has become a popular method to change the behavior of pedestrians in public spaces. However, nudges often do not work as intended because they are based on an incomplete understanding of the nudging environment, physical (e.g., ped…
View article: A Psychological Approach to Understanding Microscopic and Macroscopic Structures During Train Boarding Processes
A Psychological Approach to Understanding Microscopic and Macroscopic Structures During Train Boarding Processes Open
Current research on the train boarding process focuses predominantly on the physical modelling of pedestrian dynamics and situational characteristics such as platform design. Little psychology is involved in this approach even though indiv…
View article: Which Democratic Way to Go?
Which Democratic Way to Go? Open
There are concerns amongst researchers and the general public that social media platforms threaten democratic values. Social media corporations and their engineers have responded to these concerns with various design solutions. Though the …
View article: The Influence of Macroscopic Pedestrian Structures on Train Boarding Efficiency
The Influence of Macroscopic Pedestrian Structures on Train Boarding Efficiency Open
A deeper understanding of pedestrian dynamics is essential to improve crowd flows in public spaces such as train stations. It is essential to understand both the physical and the psychological processes present in this context. However, cu…
View article: Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies Open
Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to creat…
View article: Pathway towards sustainability or motorization? A comparative study of e-bikes in China and the Netherlands
Pathway towards sustainability or motorization? A comparative study of e-bikes in China and the Netherlands Open
Faced with globally pressing sustainability challenges, the e-bike provides a potentially sustainable mobility alternative. Yet, a growing consensus among researchers is that the environmental and social impacts of e-bikes are context depe…
View article: Structuring values and normative frameworks using Schwartz's value theory to map the three tenets of energy justice
Structuring values and normative frameworks using Schwartz's value theory to map the three tenets of energy justice Open
Recent energy justice studies have explicitly introduced different normative frameworks. However, an elaboration of how these newly introduced normative frameworks relate to each other is missing in the energy justice literature. This coul…
View article: A fairway to fairness: Toward a richer conceptualization of fairness perceptions for just energy transitions
A fairway to fairness: Toward a richer conceptualization of fairness perceptions for just energy transitions Open
Current energy justice literature has developed a strong empirical approach to describe how justice plays a role in energy transitions. We argue that the individual-level perception measures are insufficiently developed within this field, …
View article: Towards a Pragmatic and Pluralist Framework for Energy Justice
Towards a Pragmatic and Pluralist Framework for Energy Justice Open
The three-tenet model, which focuses on ‘distributional justice’, ‘procedural justice’, and ‘justice as recognition’, has emerged as the most influential framework in the field of energy justice. Based on critical reviews of the three-tene…
View article: Attention as Practice
Attention as Practice Open
The “attention economy” refers to the tech industry’s business model that treats human attention as a commodifiable resource. The libertarian critique of this model, dominant within tech and philosophical communities, claims that the persu…
View article: How to Balance Individual and Collective Values After COVID-19? Ethical Reflections on Crowd Management at Dutch Train Stations
How to Balance Individual and Collective Values After COVID-19? Ethical Reflections on Crowd Management at Dutch Train Stations Open
View article: Engineering Students as Co-creators in an Ethics of Technology Course
Engineering Students as Co-creators in an Ethics of Technology Course Open
View article: Can Creativity Be a Collective Virtue? Insights for the Ethics of Innovation
Can Creativity Be a Collective Virtue? Insights for the Ethics of Innovation Open
Virtue accounts of innovation ethics have recognized the virtue of creativity as an admirable trait in innovators. However, such accounts have not paid sufficient attention to the way creativity functions as a collective phenomenon. We pro…
View article: Digital Objects, Digital Subjects and Digital Societies: Deontology in the Age of Digitalization
Digital Objects, Digital Subjects and Digital Societies: Deontology in the Age of Digitalization Open
Digitalization affects the relation between human agents and technological objects. This paper looks at digital behavior change technologies (BCT) from a deontological perspective. It identifies three moral requirements that are relevant f…
View article: Modal shift implications of e-bike use in the Netherlands: Moving towards sustainability?
Modal shift implications of e-bike use in the Netherlands: Moving towards sustainability? Open
View article: Simplify! using self-determination theory to prioritise the redesign of an ethics and history of technology course
Simplify! using self-determination theory to prioritise the redesign of an ethics and history of technology course Open
A course on ethics and history of technology, taught to 1886 first-year engineering students of 14 engineering departments was redesigned using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) by adapting many course elements at the same time. We applied t…
View article: Exploring Marginalization and Exclusion in Renewable Energy Development in Africa: A Perspective from Western Individualism and African Ubuntu Philosophy
Exploring Marginalization and Exclusion in Renewable Energy Development in Africa: A Perspective from Western Individualism and African Ubuntu Philosophy Open
View article: “The First Generation to End Poverty and the Last to Save the Planet?”—Western Individualism, Human Rights and the Value of Nature in the Ethics of Global Sustainable Development
“The First Generation to End Poverty and the Last to Save the Planet?”—Western Individualism, Human Rights and the Value of Nature in the Ethics of Global Sustainable Development Open
The UN Agenda 2030 lends itself to an interpretation in light of the human rights framework and related contractualist ethical theories. These frameworks have been developed in the context of Western individualism. This paper analyses the …
View article: The course structure dilemma. Striving for engineering students' motivation and deep learning in an ethics and history course
The course structure dilemma. Striving for engineering students' motivation and deep learning in an ethics and history course Open
Engineers exert a decisive impact on the societal consequences of innovations when designing and implementing technologies. Engineering education prepares students for their future role by also offering them non-technical courses such as h…
View article: Why and How Should We Represent Future Generations in Policymaking?
Why and How Should We Represent Future Generations in Policymaking? Open
This paper analyses the main challenges (particularly those deriving from the non-identity problem and epistemic uncertainty concerning the preferences of future persons) to the idea that we should and can represent future generations in o…