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26/09/2025

https://avaliacaotecnologia.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/1o-encontro-nacional-de-avaliacao-de-tecnologia-em-preparacao/

No âmbito da comemoração dos 10 anos do Observatório de Avaliação de Tecnologia (OAT/CICS.NOVA), fundado em 2015, a sua Direção vai organizar o 1º Encontro Nacional de Avaliação de Tecnologia (ENAT…

25/09/2025

Die Ziele des Buchprojektes sind folgende: konzeptionelle Prämissen der (deutschsprachigen) TA sichtbar machen; Dokumentation der spezifisch historischen Entwicklung der TA in Deutschland auf der Basis von ausgewählten Texten nachvollziehen; Autor:innen u

14/02/2025

France's Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (OPECST) - Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Technology Assessment - is taking over EPTA presidency from Norway. It will be the fourth time since the creation of EPTA in 1990 (previous presidencies in 1993, 2...

18/10/2024

Finally, it is published the Handbook of Technology Assessment, organized by A. Grunwald at Elgar publishing house. And there is our chapter (written with Bettina Krings, from Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) on technology assessment (TA) and human work in production activities. We conclude that the increase of TA studies in the last three decades on industrial production indicates the societal problem orientation of these technological innovations and its impact on employment and job qualification.
In other words, most technology innovation does not consider the social dimension. This topic has been object of TA research since the decade of 80s of last century. We have tried to bring this debate roots into new perspectives and relate it with new challenges and problems.

11/10/2024

A new article where we propose a conceptual model for enhancing a human-centered production environment, and a literature review. It characterizes the different dimensions of relations between cognitive and organizational factors. Developed together with colleagues from ENSAM Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (Nancy, France) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Based on the several tasks from the PhD student, Vincent Sahyoun (ENSAM).

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07/10/2024

17 de Outubro 2024 (quinta-feira), 21 Horas videoconferência. o link de acesso será fornecido em vésperas da videoconferência

11/09/2024

Bryn Jones (University of Bath) will present our paper on "Platform Capitalism as a Trojan Horse: Combating Big Tech Threats to European Civil Society", to the EuroMemo Group international conference. The paper is produced together Bettina-Johanna Krings (ITAS Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), and myself (Nova University Lisbon).
The conference takes place at the University of Applied Sciences, BFI Vienna (Austria) from 12th to 14th September 2024.
The workshop will be on Challenges of sustainable development/Towards sustainable development (Workshop 4)

https://euromemo.eu/annual-conference-2024/ #

Europe and the world beyond the polycrisis: Possible futures 12 - 14 September 2024, Vienna/Austria

13/08/2024

Here is a new article published together with Jérémy Lefint, from ITAS-KIT (Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). I am his co-advisor for the PhD thesis on the topic of Technology Assessment on the applications of exoskeletons for work activities.
It will be a cumulative thesis, and this is his first peer-reviewed Scopus publication.
Congratulations, Jérémy!

The introduction of exoskeletons by many companies has often resulted in potential users not wanting to wear them. Evaluations of the exoskeleton reveal benefits of use, including ergonomic advantages and a reduction of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. How can this contradiction be explained?...

03/08/2024

Um recente artigo de opinião no esquerda.net sobre a necessidade de decidir com informação disponível acerca de temas relacionados com tecnologia. A decisão parlamentar sobre estes temas é feita (e legislação é produzida...) sem o devido conhecimento sobre o impacto possível das diferentes opções possíveis... Aceitam-se comentários!

https://www.esquerda.net/opiniao/o-parlamento-e-tecnologias-emergentes-um-tema-em-que-esquerda-deve-poder-intervir/91381

Os partidos políticos deveriam ter a capacidade e a vontade de intervir neste tipo de decisão, trazendo para o debate parlamentar os temas relacionados com tecnologias emergentes. Para isso, há que ter uma posição própria sobre os riscos e as vantagens que essas tecnologias podem trazer.

27/07/2024

https://avaliacaotecnologia.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/a-proposito-de-um-artigo-no-publico/

Em novembro passado, quatro membros do Observatório de Avaliação de Tecnologia publicaram um artigo no jornal “Público” sobre um tema muito atual que decorria da recente crise política.…