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AWOSE - A Process Model for Incorporating Ethical Analyses in Agile Systems Engineering
Ethical, legal and social implications are widely regarded as important considerations with respect to technological developments. Agile Worth-Oriented Systems Engineering (AWOSE) is an innovative approach to incorporating ethically relevant criteria during agile development processes through a flex...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089881/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31588964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00133-z |
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description | Ethical, legal and social implications are widely regarded as important considerations with respect to technological developments. Agile Worth-Oriented Systems Engineering (AWOSE) is an innovative approach to incorporating ethically relevant criteria during agile development processes through a flexibly applicable methodology. First, a predefined model for the ethical evaluation of socio-technical systems is used to assess ethical issues according to different dimensions. The second part of AWOSE ensures that ethical issues are not only identified, but also systematically considered during the design of systems based on information and communication technology. For this purpose, the findings from the first step are integrated with approaches from worth-centered development into a process model that, unlike previous approaches to ethical system development, is thoroughly compatible with agile methodologies like Scrum or Extreme Programming. Artifacts of worth-centered development called Worth Maps have been improved to guide the prioritization of development tasks as well as choices among design alternatives with respect to ethical implications. Furthermore, the improved Worth Maps facilitate the identification of suitable criteria for system evaluations in association to ethical concerns and desired positive outcomes of system usage. The potential of the AWOSE methodology has been demonstrated in the context of a technical system (smart glasses for cognitive assistance) that supports elderly and people with particular handicaps. |
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spelling | pubmed-70898812020-03-26 AWOSE - A Process Model for Incorporating Ethical Analyses in Agile Systems Engineering Strenge, Benjamin Schack, Thomas Sci Eng Ethics Original Research/Scholarship Ethical, legal and social implications are widely regarded as important considerations with respect to technological developments. Agile Worth-Oriented Systems Engineering (AWOSE) is an innovative approach to incorporating ethically relevant criteria during agile development processes through a flexibly applicable methodology. First, a predefined model for the ethical evaluation of socio-technical systems is used to assess ethical issues according to different dimensions. The second part of AWOSE ensures that ethical issues are not only identified, but also systematically considered during the design of systems based on information and communication technology. For this purpose, the findings from the first step are integrated with approaches from worth-centered development into a process model that, unlike previous approaches to ethical system development, is thoroughly compatible with agile methodologies like Scrum or Extreme Programming. Artifacts of worth-centered development called Worth Maps have been improved to guide the prioritization of development tasks as well as choices among design alternatives with respect to ethical implications. Furthermore, the improved Worth Maps facilitate the identification of suitable criteria for system evaluations in association to ethical concerns and desired positive outcomes of system usage. The potential of the AWOSE methodology has been demonstrated in the context of a technical system (smart glasses for cognitive assistance) that supports elderly and people with particular handicaps. Springer Netherlands 2019-10-07 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7089881/ /pubmed/31588964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00133-z Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Research/Scholarship Strenge, Benjamin Schack, Thomas AWOSE - A Process Model for Incorporating Ethical Analyses in Agile Systems Engineering |
title | AWOSE - A Process Model for Incorporating Ethical Analyses in Agile Systems Engineering |
title_full | AWOSE - A Process Model for Incorporating Ethical Analyses in Agile Systems Engineering |
title_fullStr | AWOSE - A Process Model for Incorporating Ethical Analyses in Agile Systems Engineering |
title_full_unstemmed | AWOSE - A Process Model for Incorporating Ethical Analyses in Agile Systems Engineering |
title_short | AWOSE - A Process Model for Incorporating Ethical Analyses in Agile Systems Engineering |
title_sort | awose - a process model for incorporating ethical analyses in agile systems engineering |
topic | Original Research/Scholarship |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089881/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31588964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00133-z |
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