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Emotions in Engineering Ethics Education: Systematic Review and Ways Forward. 工程伦理教育中的情感：系统回顾与展望。

IF 3 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00543-2

Roland Tormey, Alberto Bellocchi, Pia Bøgelund, Johanna Lönngren, Homero Murzi, Madeline Polmear

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Does Humanness Matter? An Ethical Evaluation of Sharing Care Work with Social Robots. 人性重要吗？与社交机器人共享护理工作的伦理评价。

IF 3 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00547-y

Emilian Mihailov, Tenzin Wangmo

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Considering the Social and Economic Sustainability of AI. 考虑人工智能的社会和经济可持续性。

IF 3 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00544-1

Rosalie Waelen, Aimee van Wynsberghe

{"title":"Considering the Social and Economic Sustainability of AI.","authors":"Rosalie Waelen, Aimee van Wynsberghe","doi":"10.1007/s11948-025-00544-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11948-025-00544-1","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the notion of 'sustainable AI' has emerged as a new topic within the wider debate on artificial intelligence (AI). Although sustainability is usually understood as having three dimensions - the environment, society, and the economy - the debate on sustainable AI, so far, is characterized by a narrow focus on the environmental sustainability of AI. In this article, it is argued that the debate on sustainable AI should not only be about AI's environmental costs, but also incorporate social and economic concerns. More precisely, the article shows that AI's environmental impact is often connected to important social and economic issues. Through an analysis of existing literature on the sustainability of AI, it is demonstrated that ethical and philosophical arguments about the importance of considering the environmental costs of AI apply just as well to the social and economic dimensions of AI development. The aim of this article is thus to present a broader understanding of sustainable AI; one that includes all three pillars of sustainability and acknowledges the interdependence between AI's environmental, social and economic costs.","PeriodicalId":49564,"journal":{"name":"Science and Engineering Ethics","volume":"31 4","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12289707/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Addressing Value Tensions in the Design of Technologies to Support Older Persons (AgeTech) Using Responsible Research and Innovation and Value Sensitive Design. 使用负责任的研究和创新以及价值敏感的设计，解决技术设计中的价值紧张关系，以支持老年人（AgeTech）。

IF 2.7 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00541-4

Nadine Andrea Felber, Wendy Lipworth, Yi Jiao Angelina Tian, Vanessa Duong, Tenzin Wangmo

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Value-Sensitive Design of Potable Water Reuse: Aligning Academic Research with Societal Concerns. 饮用水再利用的价值敏感设计：将学术研究与社会关注结合起来。

IF 2.7 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00542-3

Karen Moesker, Martijn Wiarda

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On the Limits of the Data Economy: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles. 数据经济的极限：以自动驾驶汽车为例。

IF 2.7 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00540-5

Björn Lundgren

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Aligning Scientific Values and Research Integrity: A Study of Researchers' Perceptions and Practices in Four Countries. 对齐科学价值观与科研诚信：四个国家科研人员的认知与实践研究。

IF 2.7 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00539-y

Dan Li, Le Thu Mach, Gustaaf Cornelis

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Postphenomenological Study: Using Generative Knowing and Science Fiction for Fostering Speculative Reflection on AI-nudge Experience. 后现象学研究：利用生成认知和科幻小说促进对人工智能助推体验的思辨反思。

IF 2.7 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00534-3

Ahreum Lim, Aliki Nicolaides, Xiaoou Yang, Beshoy Morkos

{"title":"Postphenomenological Study: Using Generative Knowing and Science Fiction for Fostering Speculative Reflection on AI-nudge Experience.","authors":"Ahreum Lim, Aliki Nicolaides, Xiaoou Yang, Beshoy Morkos","doi":"10.1007/s11948-025-00534-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11948-025-00534-3","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents an evidence-based argument for integrating participatory inquiry practices into AI education, using science fiction films as a primary tool for examining human-technology relationships. Through a media-enhanced co-inquiry approach, facilitators and students first explore the entanglements of human-technology interactions before engaging with AI nudges-productivity prompts introduced during time-constrained, interdependent assembly tasks in an experimental setting. A postphenomenological analysis of focus group interview data reveals that students' collective responses to AI nudges reflect the competitive pedagogical culture of engineering, often reinforcing rigid, task-driven adaptation. However, moments of attunement to material conditions suggest that speculative thinking can serve as a catalyst for renegotiating entrenched norms of engineering rationality. By facilitating the movement of concepts and generating productive friction, speculation disrupts dominant conceptualizations of AI that the engineering community often readily subscribes to. This study highlights the necessity of a cultural shift in engineering education-one that embraces speculative inquiry as a means of fostering sociotechnical reflection and reimagining human-technology relations.","PeriodicalId":49564,"journal":{"name":"Science and Engineering Ethics","volume":"31 3","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12078390/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Health Technologies and Impermissible Delays: The Case of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis. 健康技术和不允许的延迟：数字乳房断层合成的案例。

IF 2.7 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00535-2

Simon Rosenqvist, Magnus Dustler, Johan Brännmark

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Threads and Needles: A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Online Toxicity. 线和针：在线毒性的价值敏感设计方法。

IF 2.7 2区哲学

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-025-00533-4

Ryan Jenkins

{"title":"Threads and Needles: A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Online Toxicity.","authors":"Ryan Jenkins","doi":"10.1007/s11948-025-00533-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11948-025-00533-4","url":null,"abstract":"This paper engages with the problem of toxic speech online and suggests remedies inspired by the value-sensitive design literature (VSD), suggesting that the designers of online platforms should explore methods of adding friction to online conversations. Second, this paper examines a historical case of designing a communications platform to offer methods to users to inculcate norms of acceptable behavior by introducing friction into synchronous conversations. This is the case of America Online (AOL) Instant Messenger, also known as AIM, which included a feature whereby users could \"warn\" other users, attaching a cost to, and thus disincentivizing, certain kinds of speech. The nuances of the design of this feature make it especially well-suited as a subject of study in value-sensitive design as it seems to be the product of significant reflection and foresight by its designers. In the course of examining this case, this paper proposes two novel and generalizable processes of integrating values into the design of technology, inspired by the approach of value-sensitive design: a \"method of decomposition,\" reconstructing a user journey in order to identify possible moments of intervention; and an iterative \"Innovation-Abuse-Innovation\" branching diagram, which systematizes the process of anticipating abuse cases and designing responses to them. These methods build upon recent work in the literature on operationalizing ethical values in the design process. I close by illustrating the flexibility and generalizability of these methods and speculating on how they might be applied to contemporary platforms.","PeriodicalId":49564,"journal":{"name":"Science and Engineering Ethics","volume":"31 3","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014825/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144058177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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