Human-computer conflicts in partially-automated driving
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Computer systems with independent agency that directly act on the environment or influence behaviors and beliefs now mediate our interactions with the ambient environment—influencing what we believe, and what we can do. We will increasingly come in to conflict with such systems, even if they are helping us pursue our superordinate desires. Moral conflicts, without an objectively correct solution, present a complex challenge and demand empirical investigation as to how people will cope with a human-computer moral conflict, so to inform the design of such systems. To study human-computer moral conflicts, a full-vehicle driving simulator was used to elicit naturalistic driver responses in a set of moral conflict situations, where the computer would steer the participant towards greater danger to self, or would protect them by steering towards vulnerable others. Participants fought more strongly against the computer when it pushed participants towards greater danger to themselves and less when it steered them towards vulnerable others when collisions were impossible and time was available to evaluate the situation and act against the computer's actions. In a time-pressured situation where a collision was inevitable, participants fought more strongly against the system when it steered them to strike a person, and less when it pushed them towards a barrier that would injure them. Ultimately, the circumstances of the situation, time available, and level of perceived threat greatly influence fighting against a computer's actions in the moment, and thus systems need to be designed carefully, as supervisory control may be difficult or impossible in critical situations.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Miller, David Bryan | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Reeves, Byron, 1949- | |
| Thesis advisor | Reeves, Byron, 1949- | |
| Thesis advisor | Bailenson, Jeremy | |
| Thesis advisor | Harari, Gabriella | |
| Thesis advisor | Monin, Benoît, 1972- | |
| Degree committee member | Bailenson, Jeremy | |
| Degree committee member | Harari, Gabriella | |
| Degree committee member | Monin, Benoît, 1972- | |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Communication. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | David Miller. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Communication. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by David Bryan Miller
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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