Ethical Values in situated Cognitive Engineering

Modern warfare is characterized by an increased use of highly autonomous systems that create unprecedented capabilities to deliver military force. However, the dependency on such advanced systems creates several moral and legal challenges, which should be considered already in the design process. The central question becomes how to integrate values into system design. As such two methodologies are discussed. First, the Value Sensitive Design methodology specifically concentrates to embed values important to the (in)direct stakeholders. Alternatively, the situated Cognitive Engineering methodology establishes a sound and validated requirements baseline that is applied when developing many situated context dependent software packages. We propose to combine the methodologies yielding a methodology that allows integrating ethical values in highly autonomous systems using a sound and empirical design rationale. Author