The THEIA-XR project is dedicated to creating technologies that help workers gather more important information and navigate the challenges of e.g., bad weather conditions or difficult operating landscapes.
However, while implementing these technologies, we need to ensure that we are not compromising the privacy of workers. Moreover, we need to take into account the ethical and value sensitive aspects of work:
What if, while giving the operator new information they can rely on, we are making them overdependent on this information?
What is the data stored for the operator to reflect on their performance is also used for performance evaluation without the operator's consent?
To address the issues that can arise when designing ubiquitous XR for industrial workplaces, and to cover potential ethical development caveats, we designed the following guidelines.
The Guidelines for Privacy and Ethics in XR-implementations for Off-Highway machinery aimed to provide a simple check-list/guidance for the designers and developers working in a field of XR-implementation for the domain.
The Guidelines consist of a deck of 7 cards, where the front side is representing the guidelines with a short explanation and the backside proposes suggestions for the implementation.
The Guidelines are compatible with the higher-level ethical XR EU guiding principles (XR4Human Code of Conduct).
The final version of the Guidelines can be downloaded here.
