Can a system be designed to increase user autonomy? This question, which is especially important in the healthcare industry are addressed in this project. Advancements in medical knowledge have resulted in patients living longer with chronic disease, an increased number of treatment options, and more complex decisions for patients. Patients are increasingly relying on information technology to ...

Healthcare decision-making has traditionally focused on individual autonomy, but there is now a change occurring in which the involvement of families is gaining prominence. This appears to stem from an increasing emphasis on relational aspects of autonomy which recognises the individual's connectedness to their family, and also state reliance upon families to share the burdens and costs of cari...

In shared autonomy, user input and robot autonomy are combined to control a robot to achieve a goal. One often used strategy considers the user and autonomous system as independent decision makers, combining the output of these two entities. However, recent work has shown that this can lead to poor performance, suggesting the need to incorporate user models into the autonomous decision maker. A...

Autonomy for autonomous vehicles is achieved at the level of decision making. This paper discusses the lack of autonomous decision making in current unmanned vehicle platforms. Although current unmanned vehicles are often termed as autonomous, they rely on the communications and decisions established with and by the operator. In order to achieve this autonomy during mission without requiring op...

Recently, Juth and Lorentzon proposed to replace the concept of free will, as considered relevant in criminal responsibility, with the concept of autonomy. In addition, they conceived of the assessment of criminal responsibility in terms of a decision-making process. In this article, I suggest that, based on these characterizations, there is an essential similarity between assessments of crimin...