Session: CIE-25-01 - Graduate Student Poster Symposium

Paper Number: 90866

90866 - An Experimental Framework for Implementing an Ethical Cyber-Physical-Social System 

This study presented will explore nudging as it is the link between the cyber-physical and social components of cyber-physical-social system (CPSS) – it is how the worker communicates within CPSS. Given the focus of the worker and ethics, we intentionally explore nudging in CPSS environments and its impact on worker behavior. The purpose of this study is to propose a research design framework which tests if and if any, how the nudging works in CPSS setting. The construction of CPSS employs a complexity science approach, emphasis should be investigated on emergence between human-non-human interactions and captures the dynamic and collaborative exchanges occurring in the human-machine interface. While there are many elements of CPSS that can and must be investigated, we purposely explore the phenomenon of nudging. Nudge refers to the directing of worker’s choice toward a behavior by deliberately designing the choice architecture. The highlighted importance of moral sensitivity or what we describe as responsibility affects the establishment of the CPSS system. The functional decision-making process in CPSS is intricately interwoven with the act of non-human and human actors; thus, when there occurs a malfunction, it is hard to discern who or what to attribute the responsibility. Nudge theory offers an interesting insight into how CPSS operates on worker’s behavior. CPSS guides the workers’ behavior to better optimize their performance based on the predictive capacity of the algorithm. Thus, the logic of CPSS can be understood as an assemblage of real-life and digital nudge moments.

Presenting Author: Xiaoou Yang University of Georgia

Presenting Author Biography: Ph.D. Student

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