Meet your Maker: A Social Identity Analysis of Robotics Software Engineering

  • Carlos Gavidia-Calderon
  • , Amel Bennaceur
  • , Tamara Lopez
  • , Anastasia Kordoni
  • , Mark Levine
  • , Bashar Nuseibeh

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Abstract

Software systems often reflect the values of the people that engineered them: it is vital to understand and engineer those values systematically. This is crucial for autonomous systems, where human interventions are not always possible. The software engineering community shows some positive values - like altruism - and lack others - like diversity. In this project, we propose to elicit the values of the engineers of autonomous systems by analysing the artefacts they produce. We propose to build on the social identity theory to identify encouraged and discouraged behaviours within this collective. Our goal is to understand, diagnose, and improve the engineering culture behind autonomous system development.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTAS 2023 - Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9798400707346
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jul 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, TAS 2023 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: 11 Jul 202312 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference1st International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, TAS 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period11/07/2312/07/23

Keywords

  • autonomous systems
  • empirical software engineering
  • game theory
  • robotics software engineering
  • social identity

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