MuViT
A Research Project on Technologies of Pattern Recognition and Video Tracking: Analyses from Social Psychological, Sociological, Ethical and Legal perspectives
Project Director:
Prof. Dr. Regina Ammicht Quinn
Room 3.01
Tel: ++49 / 7071 / 29 77983
Fax: ++49 / 7071 / 29 5255
E-Mail: regina.ammicht-quinn[at].uni-tuebingen.de
Co-ordination and Contact:
Julia Krumm (Research staff)
Room: 2.05
Tel: ++49 / 7071 / 29 77988
Fax: ++49 / 7071 / 29 5255
E-Mail: julia.krumm[at]izew.uni-tuebingen.de
Project description:
MuViT is a joint research project funded by the German Ministry for Research and Education that forms part of the program for research in civil security and is running for three years. MuViT aims at accompanying various technological projects in the development of technologies of pattern recognition and video tracking. These technologies are meant to augment the effectiveness and efficiency of conventional data evaluation (e.g. in CCTV surveillance). The project integrates research in social psychology, sociology, ethics and law at four different German universities.
MuViT focuses on:
- critically reflecting implementation scenarios
- describing possible conflicts between the need for security and other values, rights and goods
- offering solutions to these conflicts
- and developing criteria on how “smart CCTV” systems could be designed and implemented. We address these questions from a social psychological, sociological, ethical and legal perspective.
Project Partners:
- Sociological perspectives on technologies of pattern recognition and video tracking
Organizational and Administrative Sociology, University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Maja Apelt) - Social Psychological research on the individual reaction on pattern recognition and video tracking
Psychology II, University of Würzburg (Prof. Dr. Fritz Strack) - Legal questions on the implementation of pattern recognition
German, European and International Fiscal Law, University of Würzburg (Prof. Dr. Ralf P. Schenke) - Comparative Law studies
Institute for Public Law, University of Freiburg (Prof. Dr. Thomas Würtenberger)
The ethical project MuViT-E:
The ethical project is located at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW). It aims at analyzing the development and possible implementations of technologies of pattern recognition and video tracking. Here, the research is guided by the basic question of conditions and criteria for morally acceptable implementaion. Specifically, we ask whether there are persons who are especially affected by “smart CCTV”, at what places could/should “smart CCTV” operate and what subjective and objective restraints can result from the implementation. At the level of interdisciplinary collaboration, MuViT-E integrates the empirical results of the sociological and psychological research into the normative debate about “smart CCTV”. At the same time, we address questions of how ethical and law research overlap or differ in their views of surveillance technologies.
Research Staff:
Jaqueline Flack
jaqueline.flack[at]izew.uni-tuebingen.de
Heiner Koch
heiner.koch[at]izew.uni-tuebingen.de
Tobias Matzner
tobias.matzner[at]izew.uni-tuebingen.de
