1st Edition
The Ethics of Drone Design How Value-Sensitive Design Can Create Better Technologies
By Dylan Cawthorne
Copyright 2024
154 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
