The FIDIS consortium is organising an interdisciplinary doctoral consortium event on the topic of "Identity of the Mind, Body and Spirit". The meeting will focus on the technical, ethical and legal implications of new and emerging technologies in the medical and health sector, biometrics, bio-databases, processing of medical and health data, human implants, profiling etc. This event is held in co-operation with the ACGT (Advancing Clinico Genomic Trials on Cancer) project (www.eu-acgt.org/) to encourage exchange of information, dissemination and cross fertilisation.

The event will consist of sessions in which invited Professors and Senior Researchers, active in various fields of medical research and IT, will give presentations and tutorials. PhD students from different disciplines (computer science, law, sociology etc.) will also present their research work and discuss it with each other and with senior researchers.

Tuesday, June 17th

09:45 – 10:15 Welcome and administrative matters (Eleni Kosta)
Introduction of the participants

10:15 – 11:00 Keynote Speech: FROM PERVASIVE TO INVASIVE – HOW TO BUILD BETTER HUMANS (Mark Gasson, University of Reading)
In recent years scientists have pointed to a new way in which humans might capitalise on the advances in technology. Proposed is a human/machine symbiosis – a physical linking of the two entities such that humans can seamlessly harness the power of machine intelligence and technological capability. With medical technology already blurring this transition, will our next evolutionary step as humans mean that we all become part machine?

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:00 Keynote Speech PART II: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES ATE MY PRIVACY (Mark Gasson, University of Reading) Here we investigate the ebbing of our privacy through emerging technologies for detecting biosignatures, and how wearable technology is turning surveillance into sousveillance.

Dr. Mark Gasson is a senior research fellow at the University of Reading, UK, and an associate editor of the new Springer published FIDIS journal IDIS.

PARTICIPANT’S PRESENTATIONS PART I (CHAIR: MARK GASSON)

12:00 – 12.20 Privacy Awareness -A Means to Solve the Privacy Paradox? Stefanie Pötzsch (T.U.Dresden)

12:20 – 12.30 Discussant: Hans Hedbom

12:30 – 12:50 A Survey on Transparency Tools for Enhancing Privacy Hans Hedbom (KAU)

12:50 – 13:00 Discussant: Stefanie Pötzsch 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH      

14:00 – 15:30 Keynote Speech: BIG RESEARCH QUESTIONS FOR A

SMALL TECHNOLOGY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND REGULATORY RISKS POSED BY NANOTECHNOLOGIES (Diana Bowman, Monash University)

Dr. Bowman will examine how some nanotechnologies are currently being regulated, and the adequacy of these regimes for managing the potential risks posed by the technology. The focus of her presentation will be on the use of nanotechnologies within the industrial chemicals and cosmetics sectors, and the use of nanotechnologies in human therapeutic implants.
Benefits, risks and regulatory challenges will be explored in relation to these three areas.
Dr. Diana Bowman is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies, Faculty of Law, Monash University, AUSTRALIA

15:30 – 15:50 COFFEE BREAK

PARTICIPANT’S PRESENTATIONS PART II (CHAIR: CLAUDIA DIAZ)

15:50 – 16:10 eHealth, Patient Empowerment and Health Identities Els Soenens (VUB)

16:10 – 16:20 Discussant: Griet Verhenneman

16:20 – 16:40 Cameras in Your Living room, The Next Step in eHomecare? Griet Verhenneman (ICRI - K.U.Leuven)

16:40 – 16:50 Discussant: Mina Deng

16:50 – 17:10 Cross-context Identity Management in e-Health Mina Deng (COSIC - K.U.Leuven)

17:10 – 17:20 Discussant: Eleni Kosta

17:20 – 17:40 Possibilistic Disclosure Attacks in Polynomial Time Stefan Berthold (T.U.Dresden)

17:40 – 17:50 Discussant: Matthias Kirchner

20:00 DINNER

Wednesday, June 18th

09:30 – 11:00 Keynote Speech: THE SOCIAL WEB AND COMMUNITIES OF USE IN THE DOMAIN OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE: NOVEL ETHICAL, LEGAL AND SECURITY CHALLENGES (Manolis Tsiknakis - FORTH)

Dr. Tsiknakis will discuss the types of virtual communities (classified by the intended members, i.e. health care providers, researchers, patients and caregivers) and attempt to identify the various ethical and legal challenges associated with this concept.

Dr. Manolis Tsiknakis is Head of the Centre for eHealth Technologies of the Biomedical Informatics Laboratory of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), GREECE

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 INTERACTIVE TASK: INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERACTIVE TASK AND FORMING OF DISCUSSION GROUPS (Mark Gasson)

Three groups of students will be formed, each working on an assigned topic that is relevant to the subject of the event. The groups will be asked to conclude their results in a short presentation to be held on Friday afternoon.

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:15 Keynote Speech: INTRIGUING APPLICATIONS OF POSTGENOMIC RESEARCH (Dimitris Kafetzopoulos - FORTH)

Short abstract
Dr. Dimitris kafetzopoulos is Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), GREECE

15:30 – 20:00 Social Event: Excursion to Knossos

20:00 DINNER

Thursday, June 19th

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote speech: SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN A NETWORKED AND MOBILE WORLD (Sotiris Ioannidis,
FORTH)

Ubiquitous networking and device mobility is changing the threat landscape that users have to face. The move from office space to open space, from sometimes connected to always connected, and the merging of physical and virtual identities, is leaving users more vulnerable than ever. In this talk I will be discussing some of the existing and emerging threats that such environments must face.

Dr. Sotiris Ioannidis is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), GREECE

PARTICIPANT’S PRESENTATIONS PART III (CHAIR: MARGHERITA BACIGALUPO)

10:30 – 10:50 The individual’s guide to the galaxy of ICT implants: the sundown of data protection?
Eleni Kosta (ICRI - K.U.Leuven)

10:50 – 11:00 Discussant: Els Soenens

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 11:50 Privacy Consideration on SIP-based Mobile Payment Application Ge Zhang (KAU)

11:50 – 12:00 Discussant: Thomas Gloe

12:00 – 12:20 Source Identification of Scanned Images using Spatial Sensor Noise Thomas Gloe (T.U.Dresden)

12:20 – 12:30 Discussant: Ge Zhang

12:30 – 12:50 Fast and Reliable Resampling Detection by Analysis of Fixed Linear Predictor Residue Matthias Kirchner (T.U.Dresden)

12:50 – 13:00 Discussant: Stefan Berthold

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 Keynote speech: DATA PROTECTION, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND WORKING WITH GENETIC DATA: A NIGHTMARE? (Nikolaus Forgó, IRI – University of Hannover)

The presentation will deal with the regulatory field governing European transnational research in genetic medical data. Special attention will be given to data protection issues. In an outlook he will argue that underestimated challenges are to be found in the field of intellectual property. Prof. Forgó’s major showcase will be the European project ACGT (www.eu-acgt.org) where most of their insights are practically tested at the moment.

Prof Nikolaus Forgó is Professor of Law at the Leibniz University of Hannover, GERMANY

15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 – 18:30 INTERACTIVE TASK II: CONTINUED ACTIVITIES OF THE DISCUSSION GROUPS

20:00 DINNER

Friday, June 20th

9:30 – 11:00 Keynote speech: PRIVACY PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY (Brecht Claerhout, Custodix)

The ACGT project aims to develop a Biomedical GRID infrastructure for sharing Clinical and Genomic expertise to ensure faster diagnosis and more efficient therapy (prevention and treatment). Privacy and security issues when collecting, storing and processing medical data are numerous. This presentation shows how they are tackled within the project and which solutions are used beyond that.

Brecht Claerhout is an Electronics Engineer, employed by Custodix (BELGIUM)

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 INTERACTIVE TASK III: GROUP PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 DISCUSSION TIME, WRAP-UP & EVALUATION

Inevitably, time for discussion during the event slots will be readily consumed, and so time is allocated here to continue discussion and debate from earlier sessions.
A questionnaire will also be completed by each participant to gauge the success of the event.

15:30 – 15:50 FAREWELL COFFEE