ESR photo Research project "Video-based AAL technologies and balancing of interests" About the project An aspect that is necessary to take into account, when introducing new technologies into society, is that there are bound to be multiple interests at stake, which potentially come into conflict with each other, particularly from a legal perspective. For example, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an individual is able to gain access to the logic behind automated decisions that affect him or her, yet only to the extent that it does not interfere with any intellectual property rights to that technology (see Article 22 and Recital 63 GDPR). Another illustration concerns AAL technologies that have the potential to erode an individual’s privacy rights while at the same time bring great benefits to society in terms of the reduction of treatment costs. In short, this thesis will examine how the law should balance interests within the context of Video-based AAL technologies. Start date: May 2021 Scientific publications Proactive Balancing: AI-driven video-based Active Assisted Living technologies and balancing of interests Maksymilian M. Kuzmicz Proactive Balancing: AI-driven video-based Active Assisted Living technologies and balancing of interests PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, 2025. Can we agree on what privacy means? Philosophical, legal, and social context Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz, Tamara Mujirishvili, Alexander Hick, Francisco Flórez-Revuelta Can we agree on what privacy means? Philosophical, legal, and social context In Conference proceedings Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS), 2025 Risk Identification and Proactive Conflict Management in AI-Driven Care Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz Risk Identification and Proactive Conflict Management in AI-Driven Care In Conference proceedings Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS), 2025 Trustworthy AAL Design Cards Riva, Gianluigi M.; Fedosov, Anton; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Colantonio, Sara; Lutz, Christoph; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian M.; Colonna, Liane; Lameski, Petre; Zdravevski, Eftim; Pocta, Peter; Sklavos, Nicolas; Puaschitz, Nathalie G.S.; Dantas, Carina; Metin, Ebru; van Staalduinen, Willeke; Gürçinar, Elif Trustworthy AAL Design Cards GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2024 50 questions on Active Assisted Living technologies. Global edition Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Ake-Kob, Alin; Climent-Perez, Pau; Coelho, Paulo; Colonna, Liane; Dahabiyeh, Laila; Dantas, Carina; Dogru-Huzmeli, Esra; Ekenel, Hazim Kemal; Jevremovic, Aleksandar; Hosseini-Kivanani, Nina; Ilgaz, Aysegul; Jovanovic, Mladjan; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian M.; Lameski, Petre; Luna, Ferlanda; Machado, Natália; Mujirishvili, Tamara; Pajalic, Zada; Petrova, Galidiya; Puaschitz, Nathalie G.S.; Santofimia, Maria Jose; Solanas, Agusti; van Staalduinen, Wilhelmina; Yazici, Ziya Ata 50 questions on Active Assisted Living technologies. Global edition GoodBrother Cost Action, Technical Report, 2024 What Should we Care About in AAL? Unveiling the Main Interests of the Users in the Legal Context Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz What Should we Care About in AAL? Unveiling the Main Interests of the Users in the Legal Context 2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG24), 27-31 May 2024, Istanbul AAL and the main approaches to balancing interests in European law Maksymilian Kuźmicz AAL and the main approaches to balancing interests in European law In Proceedings of the Joint VisuAAL-GoodBrother Conference on Trustworthy Video- and Audio-based Assistive Technologies, 29-32, Alicante, Spain, 2024 Who Should We Care About in the Digital World? Challenges of Stakeholders’ Identification – The Case Study of AAL Maksymilian Michał Kuźmicz Who Should We Care About in the Digital World? Challenges of Stakeholders’ Identification – The Case Study of AAL In Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 16: Ideas That Drive Our Digital World, Hideyuki Matsumi , Dara Hallinan , Diana Dimitrova , Eleni Kosta and Paul De Hert (eds), Hart Publishing, 2024 Naked in the Eyes of the Law Maksymilian M. Kuzmicz Naked in the Eyes of the Law European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 31(3-4), 325-345 A Concept of Balance of Interest in the Context of Active Assisted Living Maksymilian Michał Kuźmicz A Concept of Balance of Interest in the Context of Active Assisted Living Digital Society, 2023 Video-Based AAL and Intimate Pictures – Criminal Liability in European, Irish, and Polish Law Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz Video-Based AAL and Intimate Pictures – Criminal Liability in European, Irish, and Polish Law In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 306: Assistive Technology: Shaping a Sustainable and Inclusive World, pp. 105-112, 2023 Multilayer Information Obligation, and Why We Need It Maksymilian M Kuźmicz Multilayer Information Obligation, and Why We Need It Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities, 11:43-59, 2023 European Digital Rights - Human Rights for a Digital Age? Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz European Digital Rights - Human Rights for a Digital Age? Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities, 11:60-75, 2023 Position paper on ethical, legal and social challenges linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions Ake-Kob, Alin; Aleksic, Slavisa; Alexin, Zoltán; Blaževičienė, Aurelija; Čartolovni, Anto; Colonna, Liane; Dantas, Carina; Fedosov, Anton; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; He, Zhicheng; Jevremović, Aleksandar; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian; Lambrinos, Lambros; Lutz, Christoph; Malešević, Anamaria; Mekovec, Renata; Miguel, Cristina; Mujirishvili, Tamar; Pajalic, Zada; Perez Vega, Rodrigo; Pierscionek, Barbara; Ravi, Siddharth; Sarf, Pika; Solanas, Agusti; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia Position paper on ethical, legal and social challenges linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2022 Robots and the Europe’s Digital Decade – A Talk About the EU Policy Towards Robots Maksymilian Kuźmicz Robots and the Europe’s Digital Decade – A Talk About the EU Policy Towards Robots The 2nd Workshop on Design-Centered HRI and Governance, 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, Naples, Italy, 2022. Information Obligation as a Balancing Tool in the Context of Active and Assisted Living Maksymilian Kuźmicz Information Obligation as a Balancing Tool in the Context of Active and Assisted Living In ICCHP-AAATE 2022 Open Access Compendium "Assistive Technology, Accessibility and (e)Inclusion" Part II, pp. 260-269, 2022. State of the art on ethical, legal, and social issues linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions Ake-Kob, Alin; Blazeviciene, Aurelija; Colonna, Liane; Čartolovni, Anto; Colantonio, Sara; Dantas, Carina; Fedosov, Anton; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; He, Zhicheng; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian; Lukács, Adrienn; Lutz, Christoph; Mekovec, Renata; Miguel, Cristina; Mordini, Emilio; Pajalic, Zada; Pierscionek, Barbara Krystyna; Santofimia Romero, Maria Jose; Salah, Albert Ali; Sobecki, Andrzej; Solanas, Agusti; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia State of the art on ethical, legal, and social issues linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2022 Inspirations from EU financial law for privacy protection by information obligations in Active and Assisted Living technologies Maksymilian Kuźmicz Inspirations from EU financial law for privacy protection by information obligations in Active and Assisted Living technologies XIV Konferencja Bezpieczeństwo w Internecie - Hacking Balance of interest and AAL Maksymilian Kuźmicz Balance of interest and AAL ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2022 Consumer protection in AAL systems – the importance of the information obligation in the EU law Maksymilian Kuźmicz Consumer protection in AAL systems – the importance of the information obligation in the EU law The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society Winter Conference 2022, February 10-11, 2022, Umeå, Sweden AAL in the Post-Covid World – Common Risk or Chance? Maksymilian Kuźmicz AAL in the Post-Covid World – Common Risk or Chance? Crisis, Recovery & Renewal: Re-Imagining Society Post Covid-19, KU Leuven, 14-15 May 2021 About the ESR Maksymilian obtained a BA in Law and Philosophy (Summa cum laude) from the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at the KU Lublin. During both his BA and MA, he spent in total 3 semesters at KU Leuven as an exchange student. He completed his education with an MA in Law from KU Lublin (Summa cum laude). Since September 2020 Maksymilian has been working at the Institute for European Law at KU Leuven. Contact information Maksymilian Kuźmicz The Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI) Department of Law Stockholm University Universitetsvägen 10C 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Email address: maksymilian.kuzmicz@juridicum.su.se
Proactive Balancing: AI-driven video-based Active Assisted Living technologies and balancing of interests Maksymilian M. Kuzmicz Proactive Balancing: AI-driven video-based Active Assisted Living technologies and balancing of interests PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, 2025.
Can we agree on what privacy means? Philosophical, legal, and social context Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz, Tamara Mujirishvili, Alexander Hick, Francisco Flórez-Revuelta Can we agree on what privacy means? Philosophical, legal, and social context In Conference proceedings Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS), 2025
Risk Identification and Proactive Conflict Management in AI-Driven Care Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz Risk Identification and Proactive Conflict Management in AI-Driven Care In Conference proceedings Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS), 2025
Trustworthy AAL Design Cards Riva, Gianluigi M.; Fedosov, Anton; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Colantonio, Sara; Lutz, Christoph; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian M.; Colonna, Liane; Lameski, Petre; Zdravevski, Eftim; Pocta, Peter; Sklavos, Nicolas; Puaschitz, Nathalie G.S.; Dantas, Carina; Metin, Ebru; van Staalduinen, Willeke; Gürçinar, Elif Trustworthy AAL Design Cards GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2024
50 questions on Active Assisted Living technologies. Global edition Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Ake-Kob, Alin; Climent-Perez, Pau; Coelho, Paulo; Colonna, Liane; Dahabiyeh, Laila; Dantas, Carina; Dogru-Huzmeli, Esra; Ekenel, Hazim Kemal; Jevremovic, Aleksandar; Hosseini-Kivanani, Nina; Ilgaz, Aysegul; Jovanovic, Mladjan; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian M.; Lameski, Petre; Luna, Ferlanda; Machado, Natália; Mujirishvili, Tamara; Pajalic, Zada; Petrova, Galidiya; Puaschitz, Nathalie G.S.; Santofimia, Maria Jose; Solanas, Agusti; van Staalduinen, Wilhelmina; Yazici, Ziya Ata 50 questions on Active Assisted Living technologies. Global edition GoodBrother Cost Action, Technical Report, 2024
What Should we Care About in AAL? Unveiling the Main Interests of the Users in the Legal Context Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz What Should we Care About in AAL? Unveiling the Main Interests of the Users in the Legal Context 2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG24), 27-31 May 2024, Istanbul
AAL and the main approaches to balancing interests in European law Maksymilian Kuźmicz AAL and the main approaches to balancing interests in European law In Proceedings of the Joint VisuAAL-GoodBrother Conference on Trustworthy Video- and Audio-based Assistive Technologies, 29-32, Alicante, Spain, 2024
Who Should We Care About in the Digital World? Challenges of Stakeholders’ Identification – The Case Study of AAL Maksymilian Michał Kuźmicz Who Should We Care About in the Digital World? Challenges of Stakeholders’ Identification – The Case Study of AAL In Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 16: Ideas That Drive Our Digital World, Hideyuki Matsumi , Dara Hallinan , Diana Dimitrova , Eleni Kosta and Paul De Hert (eds), Hart Publishing, 2024
Naked in the Eyes of the Law Maksymilian M. Kuzmicz Naked in the Eyes of the Law European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 31(3-4), 325-345
A Concept of Balance of Interest in the Context of Active Assisted Living Maksymilian Michał Kuźmicz A Concept of Balance of Interest in the Context of Active Assisted Living Digital Society, 2023
Video-Based AAL and Intimate Pictures – Criminal Liability in European, Irish, and Polish Law Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz Video-Based AAL and Intimate Pictures – Criminal Liability in European, Irish, and Polish Law In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 306: Assistive Technology: Shaping a Sustainable and Inclusive World, pp. 105-112, 2023
Multilayer Information Obligation, and Why We Need It Maksymilian M Kuźmicz Multilayer Information Obligation, and Why We Need It Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities, 11:43-59, 2023
European Digital Rights - Human Rights for a Digital Age? Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz European Digital Rights - Human Rights for a Digital Age? Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities, 11:60-75, 2023
Position paper on ethical, legal and social challenges linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions Ake-Kob, Alin; Aleksic, Slavisa; Alexin, Zoltán; Blaževičienė, Aurelija; Čartolovni, Anto; Colonna, Liane; Dantas, Carina; Fedosov, Anton; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; He, Zhicheng; Jevremović, Aleksandar; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian; Lambrinos, Lambros; Lutz, Christoph; Malešević, Anamaria; Mekovec, Renata; Miguel, Cristina; Mujirishvili, Tamar; Pajalic, Zada; Perez Vega, Rodrigo; Pierscionek, Barbara; Ravi, Siddharth; Sarf, Pika; Solanas, Agusti; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia Position paper on ethical, legal and social challenges linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2022
Robots and the Europe’s Digital Decade – A Talk About the EU Policy Towards Robots Maksymilian Kuźmicz Robots and the Europe’s Digital Decade – A Talk About the EU Policy Towards Robots The 2nd Workshop on Design-Centered HRI and Governance, 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, Naples, Italy, 2022.
Information Obligation as a Balancing Tool in the Context of Active and Assisted Living Maksymilian Kuźmicz Information Obligation as a Balancing Tool in the Context of Active and Assisted Living In ICCHP-AAATE 2022 Open Access Compendium "Assistive Technology, Accessibility and (e)Inclusion" Part II, pp. 260-269, 2022.
State of the art on ethical, legal, and social issues linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions Ake-Kob, Alin; Blazeviciene, Aurelija; Colonna, Liane; Čartolovni, Anto; Colantonio, Sara; Dantas, Carina; Fedosov, Anton; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; He, Zhicheng; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian; Lukács, Adrienn; Lutz, Christoph; Mekovec, Renata; Miguel, Cristina; Mordini, Emilio; Pajalic, Zada; Pierscionek, Barbara Krystyna; Santofimia Romero, Maria Jose; Salah, Albert Ali; Sobecki, Andrzej; Solanas, Agusti; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia State of the art on ethical, legal, and social issues linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2022
Inspirations from EU financial law for privacy protection by information obligations in Active and Assisted Living technologies Maksymilian Kuźmicz Inspirations from EU financial law for privacy protection by information obligations in Active and Assisted Living technologies XIV Konferencja Bezpieczeństwo w Internecie - Hacking
Balance of interest and AAL Maksymilian Kuźmicz Balance of interest and AAL ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2022
Consumer protection in AAL systems – the importance of the information obligation in the EU law Maksymilian Kuźmicz Consumer protection in AAL systems – the importance of the information obligation in the EU law The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society Winter Conference 2022, February 10-11, 2022, Umeå, Sweden
AAL in the Post-Covid World – Common Risk or Chance? Maksymilian Kuźmicz AAL in the Post-Covid World – Common Risk or Chance? Crisis, Recovery & Renewal: Re-Imagining Society Post Covid-19, KU Leuven, 14-15 May 2021