Week 3 Journal Articles
For week 3, I decided to do some background research for our project. Dr. Hupy established in part 1 of my senior capstone class that there is a lack of regards to ethical concerns in relation to drones so I decided to focus on some journal article so that I can bring light to this topic. This week, I spent my time on journal articles that I felt brought up very strong points that should be considered in any civilian or commercial operation of drones.
The first journal article, “Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Surveillance, Ethics and Privacy in Civil Applications.” Computer Law & Security Review, had Finn, Rachel L., and David Wright as the main authors. Despite being written in 2012,I felt that it did contain information that was relevant to the current UAS industry. I felt that some of the most distinctive points were:
-Safety, privacy, and vulnerable groups were stressed as main topics in in the UAS world that were often neglected
-An example from the article is that vehicles such as surveillance helicopters give an “auditory notice” that they are in the area while UAVs do not give that same notice to individuals; The “silence” of drones appears to make them appear more intrusive
-Argument made by law enforcement that there is no difference from areas that already have many cameras such as urban environments
The second journal article "A technoethical review of commercial drone use in the context of governance, ethics, and privacy." Technology in Society, was written by Luppicini, Rocci, and Arthur So. This article analyses 36 UAS journal article and assesses if they mention 8 key factors in the UAS industry. The 8 factors of focus are safety, ethics & morals, legal, privacy, airspace, info integrity, human vs machines, and commercial related.
Some of the main notes I took from this article were
The table above shows how much of each category was mentioned in each article
Safety and Law are the most frequently mentioned factors in the articles
The least mentioned constructs are ethics & morals, declarations of personal airspace, and accuracy of drones used for surveillance purposes.
Big emphasis on the lack of ethics in the commercial drone world
Also includes information about how UAS affects the political, social, and economic world
Overall great analysis of all factors mentioned above
For the last journal that I analyzed, "The societal impact of commercial drones." by Rao, Bharat, Ashwin Goutham Gopi, and Romana Maione, it mentions 7 large factors in the UAS world. The article focuses on the current approaches to safety, security, airspace interference, privacy, ownership of data, liability, and regulation. The journal article breaks the factors now into current approaches to each factor, the limitations in that category, and then proposes future solutions.
Final Thoughts
I believe that these articles have given me specific categories to consider with any UAS mission that I undertake. They really highlight which parts in the UAS industry are often neglected. I believe the 3rd article does a great job of highlighting a problem solving method that I have not previously conspired. The format of current approach, limitations, and solutions can definitely be implemented on any UAS mission. Since my team and I will be filming in a public space, I believe it is important for me to remain knowledgeable on this subject and to pass that information on to my peers. From this I hope to come up with more ways to keep our missions above a certain ethical standard.
Future plans
For the next week, I plan to continue doing more background research on ethics in UAS and general articles on data collection with UAVs. Also, I would like to create a visual similar to the chart in the second journal article that shows limitations and solutions if needed at any point in our mission planning process.
Sources
Finn, Rachel L., and David Wright. “Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Surveillance, Ethics and Privacy in Civil Applications.” Computer Law & Security Review, vol. 28, no. 2, Apr. 2012, pp. 184–194., doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2012.01.005
Luppicini, Rocci, and Arthur So. "A technoethical review of commercial drone use in the context of governance, ethics, and privacy." Technology in Society 46 (2016): 109-119.
Rao, Bharat, Ashwin Goutham Gopi, and Romana Maione. "The societal impact of commercial drones." Technology in Society 45 (2016): 83-90.
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