Ethical issues in the use of computers
Ethical issues in the use of computers
Computer ethics
ACM code of ethics and professional conduct
Communications of the ACM
Ethical concepts and information technology
Communications of the ACM
The ethical and legal quandary of email privacy
Communications of the ACM
Applying ethics to information technology issues
Communications of the ACM
Values, personal information privacy, and regulatory approaches
Communications of the ACM
Evaluating ethical decision making and computer use
Communications of the ACM
Privacy, information technology, and health care
Communications of the ACM
Modeling IT ethics: a study in situational ethics
MIS Quarterly
Introducing PETE: computer support for teaching ethics
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
A covenant with transparency: opening the black box of models
Communications of the ACM - Adaptive complex enterprises
Testing an ethical decision-making theory: the case of softlifting
Journal of Management Information Systems
Moral Hazard, ethical considerations, and the decision to implement an information system
Journal of Management Information Systems
Computational Models of Ethical Reasoning: Challenges, Initial Steps, and Future Directions
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Increasing ethical awareness of IT students through online learning
AIC'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications
Architecture for teaching computer ethics within an e-learning environment
ICS'06 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Systems
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The objective of this research was to investigate the use of decision aid technologies to support ethical problem solving. The decision aid developed for the exploratory study described in this paper was web-based and provided content that summarized and simplified much of moral philosophy (i.e. normative ethical theory) [3, 5, 11, 13, 18, 24, 26]. The ethical dilemma was posed in case format. Participants were asked to write, and revise as necessary, a solution to the case. The decision aid was developed to address five constructs in the research model: (1) Perceived Ethical Problem, (2) Perceived Alternatives, (3) Deontological Evaluation, (4) Teleological Evaluation, and (5) an Ethic of Care. Results from analysis showed that participants that used the decision aid identified the case's main issue, personal information privacy, more frequently than participants that did not use the decision aid. Individuals with support of the decision aid discussed the need to respect equal individual rights more often. Mixed results were found concerning use of other concepts from moral philosophy. An analysis technique was used that generated and statistically analyzed graphs that described how users navigated through decision problems. First, the participants' movements were captured as they went from page to page. These data were then used to construct depth-first-search trees (a particular type of graph). Characteristics of these trees were compared statistically, and the results showed no difference in the way control or treatment users navigated. Web-based ethical decision aids can be built and used, and can improve the solutions developed by students solving cases in a laboratory environment.