re-care

Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises (RE-CARE) is a multidisciplinary German-Japanese research network exploring the intersection of crisis, health, and technology.

RE-CARE aims to bring together researchers from Japan and Germany to initiate a transcultural exchange on understanding the impacts of various crises and the potential of technology to build resilience. Our approach is grounded in a multidisciplinary framework that values the perspectives of each scientific discipline and encourages dialogue between the social, cultural, health, sports, and technical sciences.

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Updates from the RE-CARE Network

March 24-25, 2025

International Conference in Tokyo
"Resilient Healthcare: Perspectives on the Intersections of Crises, Health, and Technology from Germany and Japan"

The RE-CARE network is organizing an international conference at the University of Tokyo on March 23–24, 2025. Over two days, five panels will explore a range of topics, including sociological and ethical perspectives on crises, the use of health technology for classifying humans as risks, the role of robotics in elderly care, privacy and liability issues surrounding health data, and computational methods for studying social perceptions of crises, such as earthquakes. The full program will be available here soon.

August 25-26, 2025

International Conference in Münster

Coming soon…

RE-CARE on Twitter/X

1/4 New Preprint!
#LLM-enhanced social #robots for care are not without risk as @RobRanisch and I show.

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We found a concerning example for what @JohnDanaher calls superficial state deception. Just ask to remind you of your medication!
#AIEthics

New publication:
Interest in #anime and #manga: relationship with (mental) health, social disconnectedness, social joy and subjective well-being
@hche_uhh #Wellbeing #loneliness #depression

Great news for our first followers! 😊
We are excited to announce that the official website of the German-Japanese research cooperation RE-CARE has been launched.🥳
It is accessible at: http://www.resilient-healthcare.de

dennis-krämer-profile

Cri­ses ha­ve long be­en a key to­pic in so­cio­lo­gy, pro­vi­ding va­luable in­sights in­to how con­tem­pora­ry so­cie­ties func­tion, how they cope with un­cer­tain ti­mes and how in­di­vi­du­als per­cei­ve and re­spond to risks. What can we learn from a trans­cul­tu­ral dia­lo­gue about the spe­ci­fic ro­le and po­ten­ti­al of tech­no­lo­gy in cri­ses?

bohlmann profile

The phi­lo­so­phy of tech­no­lo­gy has tra­di­tio­nal­ly fo­cu­sed on mal­func­tions and tech­ni­cal di­sas­ters. Cri­ses are not an un­k­nown pheno­me­non. Howe­ver, mul­ti­ple cri­ses can lead to ra­pid tech­no­lo­gi­cal de­ve­lop­ments across sys­tems in in­de­ter­mi­na­te di­rec­tions. What are the phi­lo­so­phi­cal tools we can use to ana­ly­ze tech­no­lo­gies in cri­ses?

haltaufderheide profile

From an ethi­cal per­spec­tive, all health tech­no­lo­gies are es­sen­ti­al­ly tech­no­lo­gies of cri­sis. Howe­ver, re­cent events such as the CO­VID-19 pan­de­mic ha­ve re­con­fi­gu­red how we un­der­stand health, tech­no­lo­gy and cri­sis. Un­packing the ethi­cal im­pli­ca­ti­ons at the in­ter­sec­tion of the­se con­cepts is cru­ci­al to un­der­stan­ding the tran­si­ti­on of health­ca­re.

krämer profile

hier yonemura

dreiskämper profile

Cri­ses such as pan­de­mics or in­ter­na­tio­nal con­flicts can lead to un­cer­tain­ty among child­ren and ado­lescents. This has a cri­ti­cal im­pact on men­tal health and health be­ha­vi­ors (e.g., sports and phy­si­cal ac­tivi­ty). What op­por­tu­nities does di­gi­tal tech­no­lo­gy of­fer to im­pro­ve health be­ha­vi­ors among young peop­le?

This project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The information contained on this website does not necessarily reflect the official position of the DFG.