The Ethics of Drone Design - Dylan Cawthorne

The Ethics of Drone Design

How Value-Sensitive Design Can Create Better Technologies

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Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-44552-6 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
This book presents a holistic approach to the design and use of drones. It argues that this powerful technology requires high levels of ethical analysis and responsibility—our moral progress must keep pace with our technological progress.
This book presents a holistic approach to the design and use of drones. It argues that this powerful technology requires high levels of ethical analysis and responsibility – our moral progress must keep pace with our technological progress.

Drone technologies support and diminish the flourishing of certain human values, impact power relations between individuals and groups, and add an additional element to the complex network of humans and objects in modern society. The book begins by introducing four prototype drones designed and built by the author: the healthcare drone, the search and rescue drone, the educational drone, and the spiritual drone. These drones have been developed using a value-sensitive design approach – with values such as human welfare, privacy, trust, environmental sustainability, and justice at the forefront. Ethical analyses and social impacts are taken as design inputs, leading to the creation of better, more responsible drone designs. The book then showcases additional methods used to develop the prototype drones from the fields of engineering, ethics, and art, including ethical frameworks, ethics standards, capability caution, and speculative design. The holistic approach reveals a more subtle and nuanced view of drones than the currently polarized characterization of "the good drone" or "the killer drone". The book concludes with recommendations for drone engineers, companies, lawmakers, and citizens on how to support ethics in drone design.

The Ethics of Drone Design is an essential resource for scholars, advanced students, engineers, and designers interested in the ethics of technology.

Dylan Cawthorne is Associate Professor at the Drone Center at the University of Southern Denmark. His main area of research is using value-sensitive design methods and ethical principles to develop and build prototype drones for humanitarian, public healthcare, search and rescue, and educational purposes.

1. Introduction 2. The Healthcare Drone 3. The Search and Rescue Drone 4. The Sierra Leone Educational Drone 5. The Spiritual Drone 6. The Theory, Methodology, and Practice 7. The Future 8. Afterword: The Engineer

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Zusatzinfo 4 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Naturwissenschaften
Technik
ISBN-10 1-032-44552-1 / 1032445521
ISBN-13 978-1-032-44552-6 / 9781032445526
Zustand Neuware
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