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  • Digital ethics
  • Health technology research

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  • Digital technologies, particularly behavioral insurance, increasingly involve data tracking and health services.
  • This raises questions about user autonomy and control over personal wellbeing decisions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how individuals define, negotiate, and perform autonomy in the context of digital health technologies and behavioral insurance.
  • To analyze the ethico-political deliberations surrounding algorithmic control in wellbeing management.

Main Methods:

  • Focus group discussions were utilized as a site for ethico-political deliberation.
  • Analysis centered on how participants tested ideas, discussed control boundaries, and envisioned future scenarios.

Main Results:

  • Autonomy is perceived as relational and ambiguous, enacted through collaboration with devices (distributed autonomy).
  • Concerns arise when wellbeing decisions are delegated to algorithmic systems.
  • The traditional liberal view of autonomy as a controllable entity is insufficient.

Conclusions:

  • Autonomy in the digital age is a collaborative and enacted process, not a solely individualistic possession.
  • Research, ethics, and governance must consider the "doing" of values in technologically mediated, affect-laden interactions.