TY - GEN
T1 - Social Impact of Smart Environments
T2 - 46th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2022
AU - McDonald, Stuart
AU - Towey, Dave
AU - Brusic, Vladimir
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article examines the impact of smart environments on society from a software engineering design perspective. Smart environments create significant design challenges due to their scalability, interconnectedness, and adaptivity of devices. Software engineering and existing standards typically address technical issues, while ethical and social issues have been neglected. This work argues that changing regulatory requirements shifts the responsibility for outcomes to the software engineering team, and therefore the definition of adequate guidelines is needed. These guidelines include consideration of ethical issues, harmonized ethically informed standards, principles that address compliance risks, and analyses of social impact. Our starting point is the seven harmonized standards defined by the European GDPR. Based on the existing literature and additional analyses, we identify ten key ethical issues, nine compliance risks, and twelve analyses of societal impact. These standards, issues, risks, and analyses make a starting point for the development of formal guidelines applicable to socially aware smart environment design.
AB - This article examines the impact of smart environments on society from a software engineering design perspective. Smart environments create significant design challenges due to their scalability, interconnectedness, and adaptivity of devices. Software engineering and existing standards typically address technical issues, while ethical and social issues have been neglected. This work argues that changing regulatory requirements shifts the responsibility for outcomes to the software engineering team, and therefore the definition of adequate guidelines is needed. These guidelines include consideration of ethical issues, harmonized ethically informed standards, principles that address compliance risks, and analyses of social impact. Our starting point is the seven harmonized standards defined by the European GDPR. Based on the existing literature and additional analyses, we identify ten key ethical issues, nine compliance risks, and twelve analyses of societal impact. These standards, issues, risks, and analyses make a starting point for the development of formal guidelines applicable to socially aware smart environment design.
KW - engineering ethics
KW - ethics of technology
KW - health ethics
KW - international ethics guidelines
KW - internet of things
KW - machine ethics
KW - research ethics
KW - smart home
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85136927034&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/COMPSAC54236.2022.00253
DO - 10.1109/COMPSAC54236.2022.00253
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781665488112
T3 - Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2022
SP - 1592
EP - 1597
BT - 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
A2 - Va Leong, Hong
A2 - Sarvestani, Sahra Sedigh
A2 - Teranishi, Yuuichi
A2 - Cuzzocrea, Alfredo
A2 - Kashiwazaki, Hiroki
A2 - Towey, Dave
A2 - Yang, Ji-Jiang
A2 - Shahriar, Hossain
PB - IEEE
Y2 - 27 June 2022 through 1 July 2022
ER -