Ethical reasoning methods for ICT: the technical report

Abstract

With the growing influence of ICT, there is a need to reason about the ethical consequences of these technologies. To aid in analysis and reflection on the ethical consequences of ICT, conceptual modellers, ICT designers and software engineers can apply ethical reasoning methods. This research project aims to collect, describe and specify the metamodels of existing ethical reasoning methods for ICT. We first conduct a multivocal literature review to collect studies presenting such methods, from academic or industrial sources. We then analyse the methods and create their metamodels using the Process Deliverable Diagram technique. This technical report is a companion to a peer-reviewed publication (currently under review for ER 2023). It contributes detailed descriptions of the methods and the method metamodel documentation tables. We will update the report in the future if we find and analyse additional methods.