Towards Ethics-Driven Requirements Engineering: Integrating Critical Systems Heuristics and Ethical Guidelines for Autonomous Vehicles
Paper i proceeding, 2025

Context & Motivation: It is crucial to ensure ethical compliance for critical systems. The Ethical Framework by Guizzardi et al. offers structured guidance on ethical challenges. Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) focus on stakeholder analysis, helping reveal assumptions in AV decision-making processes. Question/Problem: Despite these useful frameworks, only limited experience is documented and a lack of empirical studies hinders responsible software design. Principal Ideas/Results: Our vision is integrating Guizzardi et al.’s framework with CSH to support the requirements engineering (RE) process by (i) identifying and addressing diverse stakeholder, (ii) defining explicit boundaries or scope for the system under discussion, and (iii) promoting ethical considerations in requirements. Contributions: By applying established ethical guidelines and CSH retrospectively to realistic and complex case—an Automated Vehicle (AV) project with context specific ethical dilemmas—we show the potential and limitations of this research approach. We present a preliminary research design to investigate the applicability of established guidelines and CSH to a realistic project, thus enabling future research on ethical RE.

Ethical Requirements

Ethics-aware Design

Automated Vehicles (AVs)

Responsible Design

Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH)

Författare

Amna Pir Muhammad

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Irum Inayat

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Göteborgs universitet

Eric Knauss

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 15588 LNCS 29-36
9783031885303 (ISBN)

31st International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2025
Barcelona, Spain,

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Programvaruteknik

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-88531-0_3

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2025-04-29