Measuring your health and fitness by apps, genetic testing or other tools is very common nowadays. More and more gadgets are being produced, the data is analyzed, but what consequences does all of this actually have on the individual? What ethical and legal challenges for societies arise from these developments?
We - the Collegium Helveticum, the Paulus-Akademie Zürich and the foundation Science et Cité - wanted to find out. And we were not doing this by first consulting the so-called experts, but we started wit a public poll (online and direct interviews) to find out what people think of these developments: Are they scared of what happens with their data? Do they know at all? What for would they do genetic testing? Would they build a chip in his/her partners brain in order to know when he/she is unfaithful?
This poll has been running until the end of June 2015 on menschnachmass.ch/fragebogen.
At our Workshop at Lift Basel we will:
1.) Poll with participants to introduce the topic (10’)
2.) Present our project and poll results (15’)
3.) Workshop in smaller teams: What do the poll results imply for health research and providers of fitness Apps, tracking tools, genetic tests etc.? (30’)
4.) Presentation and discussion of the workshop outputs (35’)
