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A Value–Led Landscape Design as Model for Ethical Governance
How would a value–led landscape design leverage more equal and sustainable transformations in land governance and use? In light of recent changes in climate, society, and technology, inter and multidisciplinary collaborations as well as knowledge exchange ...
2024Explainability as fig leaf? An exploration of experts’ ethical expectations towards machine learning in psychiatry
The increasing implementation of programs supported by machine learning in medical contexts will affect psychiatry. It is crucial to accompany this development with careful ethical considerations informed by empirical research involving experts from the fi ...
2023A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students
Touradj Ebrahimi, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Nihat Kotluk
Deepfakes - synthetic videos generated by machine learning models - are becoming increasingly sophisticated. While they have several positive use cases, their potential for harm is also high. Deepfake production involves input from multiple engineers, maki ...
2023DRONE GAME THAT HIGHLIGHTS ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS OF DESIGN DECISIONS
Siara Ruth Isaac, Barbara Bruno, Gianni Lodetti
This paper reports on the development of a brief scenario-based challenge to prompt engineering students’ reflection about the broader impacts of their design decisions, and thereby increase their ethical sensitivity and motivation. The game scenario asks ...
CDIO conference proceedings2023The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain
Patrick Jermann, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Vladimir Macko, Adrian Christian Holzer
Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...
2023Smart cities and sustainable development goals (SDGs): A systematic literature review of co-benefits and trade-offs
Despite the wealth of research on smart cities, there is a lack of studies examining interlinkages between smart cities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, there is limited research on how implementing smart city solutions can lead to ...
London2023Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Background: There has been an increase in interest in emotion in engineering and science ethics education. There is also evidence that emotional content in case studies may improve students’ learning and enhance awareness, understanding, and motivation con ...
2023Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone
Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni
Relationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, ...
2023A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges
Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Helena Kovacs, Maria Carla Di Vincenzo, Ester Simkova
The past few decades have seen important efforts to introduce more ethics into engineering education programs around the world, while adapting to the evolution of ethical concerns, notably in relation to digital technology and artificial intelligence. Even ...
2022Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Although engineering education is often characterized as a rational activity, research suggests that emotions are vital for learning at all levels of education. In ethics education, there is evidence that including mild emotional information in case studie ...
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