Anne Bonvanie

Dr. ir. Anne Bonvanie is trained as an Industrial Engineer, specialized in Healthcare Management and Information Engineering. During her masters and PhD, she developed an interest in ethics and Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI), resulting in a PhD thesis on Health Self-Management Applications in the Workplace, focussing on the impact of self-management apps on the behaviour and experienced autonomy of workers. After some years as an Innovation Manager in eldery care, she joined the research group Ethics & Technology of Saxion UAS, in which she brings together knowledge on RRI, experience with ethics and responsible innovation in (large) multidisciplinary collaborations, and practical methods to involve diverse groups of stakeholders in the responsible development of new technologies. 

In HHH, Anne is responsible for the embedded ethics in the project. That includes creating awareness on potential ethical issues during the project, discussing future dilemma's and their current impact on design choices with researchers and other stakeholders, and stimulating daily researchers to explore the ethical issues regarding a softrobotic heart together, and learn from each other. Topics that arise are goals and means of the technology, the impact of technology on users and their surroundings, but explicitly also non-users, and the potential societal changes regarding the attitude towards donation, the value of health and the optimization of the human body.