On 24th June AINCP led the Pre-conference focused symposium “Co-creation and ethical framework for the use of Artificial intelligence in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy” at EACD & IAACD Conference 2025 that this year takes place in Heidelberg.
Abstract: “The focused symposia aims to provide up-to-date knowledge about the key role of clinicians, data scientists, engineers, families and ethics experts in research for the co-design, co-creation and co-development of new approaches based on the use of Artificial Intelligence as in the European AInCP project focused on Unilateral Cerebral Palsy (UCP). Moreover, in this framework, the integration of contributions coming from multidisciplinary perspectives and different economical, cultural and social backgrounds will be underlined. It represents a great work and effort that the presenters are carring out on the frameowrl of the AInCP project. It is a 5-year Horizon European project, involving 12 partners coming from 6 European countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, The Netherlands, Georgia) and Australia, that aims to develop evidence-based clinical Decision Support Tools by developing, testing and validating trustworthy Artificial Intelligence and cost-effective strategies. AInCP includes the active involvement of children and parents and ethicists for the co-design and co-development of a personalized clinical evaluation and home-rehabilitation by assessing patient-specific needs. Moreover, AInCP provides an example of the intersection among clinical and technological assessments with ethical considerations informed about the risk of ableism in different steps of the trials.
The symposium will be addressed to a multidisciplinary audience for strengthen the collaboration among clinicians, engineers, data scientists, ethicists, parents and children in planning new researchers focused on the development of AI, starting from the AInCP experience as an methodological example. It will be of great relevance for the audience thanks to its multidisciplinarity where all project collaborators (clinicians,data scientists, physicists, engineers, economists, ethicists, children and parent associations) work together to build the AInCP approach. We will specifically discuss the crucial role of children and their families in the co-design and co-development of innovative solutions, even more important, when it is envisaged the use of AI that needs to be developed and used in a fair, explainable, trustworthy and ethical way.”
This is the 4th Triennial Meeting of the International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disability (IAACD) and the 37th Annual Meeting of the European Academy Of Childhood Disability (EACD) from June 24th to 28th, 2025. More info to register is available here.