Year: 2011
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In the field of Law & Technology, scholars investigate the legal and regulatory consequences of the advent of new technologies, for example with respect to ICTs, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, or neurotechnologies.It is important to investigate whether technological developments in these fields require adjustments in existing legal frameworks, and whether technological developments themselves need to be regulated.Moreover, in Law & Technology scholars also investigate the ways in which technological artefacts can be used to regulate.This is called ʻtechno-regulationʼ.This paper has two goals.First, I will analyse the concept of techno-regulation and propose that it needs to be broadened.Techno-regulation focuses on the intentional influencing of human behaviour through the implementation of values, norms and rules into technological artefacts.However, extensive research in various disciplines has revealed that the design (shape, form, functionality) of technological artefacts greatly affects usersʼ tacit and implicit responses to these artefacts.Since this has direct relevance to the theme of regulation, I propose to widen the reach of techno-regulation by speaking of ʻtechno-elicitationʼ instead.In the second part of this paper, I focus my discussion of techno-regulation and technoelicitation on the design of robots, which is relatively uncharted territory in the field of Law & Technology.
Author: Bibi van den Berg
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2113420493