Modeling the Moral User

Currently, the concern and interest in the ethical design and regulation of autonomous lethal robotics is growing. Additionally, the design of any tele-operated weapons systems has significant implications for the ethical decision making of users. There are three approaches to designing lethal tele-operated systems have been considered. Here, the potential application to tele-operated systems has been described. The first and second approaches have been already described. The third approach is the new User-Centered Design (UCD) that endorses modeling the users of these systems, and then using these models to motivate design decisions. It is a design strategy based on empirical observations on how users perform tasks, and using a task model in designing interfaces and systems.