# Duty of Care Workshop (2)
###### tags: `tas hub`, `student workshops`

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## Breakout Group Activity


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**Instructions**
For this activity you will need to follow these steps in your group:

1. Develop a goal statement for your case study, which can serve the function of an ethical target. The statement should help define your group's understanding of the concept of 'duty of care', and also offer a practical steer for the developers and implementers of your case study's technology.
2. Once this statement has been drafted, your team will then need to identify specific properties that you believe the technology ought to have if this goal is to be realised. You can also identify actions that ought to be undertaken by the developers or implementers of the technology to ensure said properties are established (e.g., adequate security measures to protect data privacy).
3. You should also identify properties or actions that currently prevent or hinder the realisation of the goal. This will result in two sections of lists of properties or actions. The first will be a list of supporting statements; the second will be a list of barriers or challenges.
4. Once you have drafted several property or action statements, you may wish to return to your initial goal statement and consider if it needs to be refined.
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### Definition of Duty of Care

- The moral and legal obligation towards the health and wellbeing of students, which includes (as a minimum) safeguarding them from physical and mental harm.
- A baseline responsibility which supports the mental and physical wellbeing of the student, providing a safetynet which respects their individual autonomy but protects and maintains their mental and physical health.
- A responsibility of an organisation/ institution to provide care on one's wellbing,including physical and mental.
- Obligation to protect the fundamental rights of a student and preserve a baseline level of wellbeing by protecting students from harm and making available opportunities for students to enhance their wellbeing, in addition to providing a sufficiently adequate experience in higher education
- The obligation for an organisation to provide (within its means) the support necessary to maintain a good, functional level of wellbeing - whereby the obligation is strenthened in cases when the wellbeing is affected by their own actions.

### Goal Statement

NB: _You should write your goal statement here._
The system need to able to reallocate the user's attention away from negative elements and spent more attention on positive elements
The technology is able to assist students in redirecting time spent on negative activities on devices and thereby improving student wellbeing
The University supports the attention of the student through a noninvasive system which respects the individual whilst (?) maintaing it.
System is able to assure adequate student functioning through an acceptable level of attention spent on app

#### Supporting Properties

NB: _Please add the list of supporting properties here._

- Our app supports user autonomy by providing the option to vary the way that the limit operates
- Asking users their intention when they enter the app to provide them more agency and promote/suggest interacting with more 'positive' content (goalsetting?)
- Any level of blocking should be accompanied by something else that mitigates the lack of agency or any potential harm from the blocking features

#### Barriers

NB: _Please add the list of properties or barrier to fulfilling your goal statement here._

- A barrier would be a permanent and inflexible removal from the apps, which fails to address the root problem and support the student.
- A barrier would be messaging that could be well-intended but has an ill effect of exacerbating the problem of the students
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