Towards ethical agency in the smart home “living place” : on the conception and development of ethical smart home systems by elective projects within computer science education,Auf dem Weg zum ethischen Handeln im Smart Home „Living Place“ : zur Konzeption und Entwicklung ethischer Smart-Home-Systeme durch Wahlpflichtprojekte im Informatikunterricht
Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH/Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Erscheinungsjahr:
2024
Medientyp:
Text
Schlagworte:
Machine Ethics
Computer Science
Social Sciences
Autonomous Agents
Adaptive Systems
Computer Science Education
004: Informatik
ddc:004
Beschreibung:
Smart Home applications exert immediate influence on inhabitants. While the widespread availability of supporting frameworks and technologies facilitates ad hoc application development, assessing and designing the impact on inhabitants have to be considered as well. In this paper, we outline a concept for an elective bachelor's project for computer science students planned for the upcoming winter term. This course builds on our experience with two elective courses on the topic of "machine ethics”. In this project, we understand the smart home "LIVING PLACE" at HAW Hamburg and its interior as ethical actors and outline how to advance this viewpoint to a testbed for experimenting with principles of (machine) ethics and embedding ethical values during system development.