Cyborg technologies have left science fiction to become an emerging market. Cyborgs are defined as people who integrate technical elements in their bodies to improve their capacities over innate ones. Taking into consideration the human revolution that this technology can provoke, a cultural...

Cyborg technologies have left science fiction to become an emerging market. Cyborgs are defined as people who integrate technical elements in their bodies to improve their capacities over innate ones. Taking into consideration the human revolution that this technology can provoke, a cultural...

The emergence of Covid-19 has affected all aspects of human life across the globe. Lockdowns everywhere are having dramatic social and economic consequences. No therapy has yet been approved, and vaccines are a priority potential tool to control the pandemic and its impacts. Multiple vaccines...

The emergence of Covid-19 has affected all aspects of human life across the globe. Lockdowns everywhere are having dramatic social and economic consequences. No therapy has yet been approved, and vaccines are a priority potential tool to control the pandemic and its impacts. Multiple vaccines...

Literature on the acceptance of surgical robots (SRs) usually adopts the heathcare workers’ perspective but research from patients’ perception is scarcer. This study fills this gap, by analysing patients’ attitudes towards SRs. It considers three variables from technology acceptance...

MIDAS (Meaningful Integration of Data Analytics and Services) project is developing a big data platform to facilitate the utilisation of a wide range of health and social care data to support better policy making. Our aim is to explore the use of Qmethodology as part of the evaluation of the...

MIDAS (Meaningful Integration of Data Analytics and Services) project is developing a big data platform to facilitate the utilisation of a wide range of health and social care data to support better policy making. Our aim is to explore the use of Qmethodology as part of the evaluation of the...

This article examines Japan’s proposed ID card and data matching system, called 'My Number'. Any businesses operating in Japan will be very likely to find themselves dealing with aspects of the ‘My Number’ system if they seek to do any work on behalf of agencies at any level of the...

This article is a report on the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN) 2nd International Conference: Privacy in the Social Networked World, Meiji University, Tokyo on 19-20 November 2012. The Conference involved researchers from ten countries, and was hosted by the Centre for Business Information...