Polina Velyka's project explores how patients and care providers using remote health monitoring devices experience and morally interpret surveillance in everyday life. Through ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and participant observation, the project investigates how monitoring technologies shape patients’ sense of agency, responsibility, and care.
Theoretically, the project draws on empirical care ethics, post-phenomenology, and surveillance studies. Situated within the Danish welfare context, the research investigates how technological mediation influences responsibility, agency, and the meaning of care.
Polina's aims include getting insights into how monitoring technologies reshape relationships between patients and healthcare providers, particularly regarding trust, transparency, and shared decision-making. The study may potentially contribute to post-phenomenological theory and surveillance studies by demonstrating how technology and human agency evolve in the context of healthcare surveillance.