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Moral development
Publications associées (13)
Compassion 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 ...
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 ...
2023Emotional 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 ...
2022Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation
This thesis presents four essays providing novel empirical and theoretical insights on the incentives and institutional structures that favor knowledge production and diffusion. The first two studies analyze these processes in the realm of scientific resea ...
EPFL2020The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics
Empirical evidence suggests that there exists substantial heterogeneity in individuals' social preferences. However, there is little theoretical basis supporting this observation and economic models often assume that all individuals are identical. Hence, t ...
EPFL2019Globalizing the digital: A cross-cultural framework for the ethics of operationalizing Big Data
Concerns over the ever-increasing production, availability and use of multilayered individual data in social research, business and the everyday life calls for the development of ethical and legal guidelines. In parallel to civic and governmental initiativ ...
2018Moral Matrices
In this dissertation, I address the political and moral geography of Swiss federal participatory votes for the period between 1981 and 2014 to re-investigate some of the fundamental questions left open in urban sciences: how and why socio-ethical, moral an ...
EPFL2017Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program
Ambrogio Fasoli, Denis Gillet, Alexis Berne, Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Ingrid Le Duc, Samuel Bendahan, Delphine Preissmann, Jérome Feige, Luca Bragazza, Antonin Danalet, Adrian Christian Holzer
To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the ...
Tempus Publications2016Ready to face the world?Lessons learnt from applying a Multi-Professional Shared Learning Test tofirst year Engineering and Science students at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc
This paper presents the results of a project aimed to measure changes in attitudes and perception of science, engineering and architecture first year students about working in a professionally diverse environment. At the beginning of the Global Issues cour ...
2016Learning Analytics in action: ethics and privacy issues in the classroom
The field of learning analytics (LA) is working on the definition of frameworks that structure the legal and ethical issues that stakeholders have to take into account regarding LA solutions. While current efforts in this direction focus on institutional a ...
2016