Clinical Information Systems – Seen through the Ethics Lens

Recommender Systems Seen Through the Lens of Choice Architecture

“How do people make choices?” “How can we help them make better choices?” It’s helpful to have compact, coherent answers to these questions if we want to build recommender systems that support choice processes. This talk begins with a brief summary of the ASPECT and ARCADE models (introduced in “Choice Architecture for Human-Computer Interaction”), which answer these questions. It then uses thi...

Issues in robot ethics seen through the lens of a moral Turing test

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore artificial moral agency by reflecting upon the possibility of a Moral Turing Test (MTT) and whether its lack of focus on interiority, i.e. its behaviouristic foundation, counts as an obstacle to establishing such a test to judge the performance of an Artificial Moral Agent (AMA). Subsequently, to investigate whether an MTT could serve as a usefu...

Medical ethics through the Star Trek lens.

The Fair Factories Clearinghouse: Sourcing Ethics Improved Through Information Systems

Firms that outsource production to supply partners are at risk if those suppliers engage in unethical behavior. Such issues have been particularly acute in the apparel industry. If suppliers engage in unethical practices, firms may suffer brand and reputation damage, lost sales, cancelled contracts, legal penalties, lower employee morale, and more. An innovative program, originated at Reebok an...

Ranking of fuzzy intervals seen through the imprecise probabilistic lens

Within the fuzzy literature, the issue of ranking fuzzy intervals has been addressed by many authors, who proposed various solutions to the problem. Most of these solutions intend to find a total order on a given collection of fuzzy intervals. However, if one sees fuzzy intervals as descriptions of uncertain quantities, an alternative to rank them is to use ranking rules issued from the impreci...