• April 25, 2022

    Being the ‘Bad guy’ in a group isn’t always wrong

    Philisopher Mandi Astola: bad people can actually make a positive impact on group behavior

  • February 4, 2022

    Research project ‘Tomorrow’s value Conflicts’ awarded 50.000 Euro research grant

  • December 3, 2021

    Vincent Müller in documentary ‘The Digital Human’

    Can you imagine, discussing your problems with a digital therapist instead of a real person? Virtual assistants are on the rise and getting…

  • October 6, 2021

    How ‘ethics by design’ could remedy the concerns arising from behavior change technologies

    Health-related behavior change technologies help people prevent, or reduce, unhealthy behaviors. But this type of persuasive technologies…

  • October 4, 2021
    Gunter Bombaerts wins Maffioli Award for challenge-based ethics education

    “All students can find ethics interesting. It's a question of how you present it”

    Challenge-based learning improves the relevance of ethics education for students.

  • June 22, 2021

    Matthew Dennis wins Postdoc Best Paper Awards

    Matthew Dennis (P&E group) won with his paper ‘Towards a theory of digital well-being: reimagining online life after lockdown,’ which he…

  • May 19, 2021

    Is it time for robot rights?

    Moral status in artificial entities

  • Image: Mohamed Hassan (pixabay.com)
    November 9, 2020

    Care robot requires balance between effiency and human contact

    Where some people can't bear the thought of robots in healthcare, others see plenty of potential. E.g. chatbots are on the rise. The…

  • November 5, 2020

    Five TU/e researchers receive Veni grants

    250,000 euros per awardee to explore their research ideas.

  • December 11, 2019

    Life in a time of the quantified self: how apps both empower and suppress us

    Instagram offers young girls autonomy and a large audience, but at the same time forces them to conform to stereotypes.

  • November 27, 2019

    No humans needed: Neanderthals possibly responsible for their own extinction

    Neanderthals may simply have been unfortunate to have lived in small numbers.

  • November 8, 2019

    Ethics professor Meijers receives ribbon and honorary medal upon departure

    “He has left a lasting mark on our education and research,” said TU/e President Robert-Jan Smits.