Ethics Workshop 1

Here is my reflection on the Ethics Workshop 1.

My research is technically surrounding a robotic system, but since I am building the robot for a particular group of users (for my case, my subject is the visually impaired people), I have to be really careful in term of ethical practice.

From this workshop, I realise that the entire design of my research should have proper consideration of the ethical practice even at the very starting point of the research work. Questions begin to fill up my mind - how should I use the data collected from my project group; what should be declared in the consent form; what are the agreement needed; what could be accepted from the point of legal, ethical vs moral practise; did I miss out any approbation and so on...

So my next task is to identify those information needed to help me answer my questions. Since I am working on my project at Malaysia, I would like to find out more about legal issues related to my subject. Apart from this, I would also like to look into some articles to gain more insights about the known ethical practice involving this particular group of people. Morally, as long as I concern the work is done following our current social values or principles of conduct, the work should be well accepted. This shouldn't be a problem as I know my country well. But I anticipate possible challenges if my work to be extended to another country.

Anyway, this session has allowed me to think more in-depth on the issues of not only ethical practice, but also the legal and moral perspective of them.