一句话：揭示开发者盲点，提出将抽象伦理价值操作化为可观察系统特性，让利益相关者能理解和评估伦理品质。
本文是一篇愿景论文，指出系统开发者与用户、监管机构等利益相关者之间存在根本脱节：开发者需要可度量需求，而用户的伦理观主观且情境化，监管者需执行法规。这种脱节造成“开发者盲点”，系统设计未能让利益相关者理解和评估其伦理品质。核心问题是缺乏将抽象伦理价值操作化为可观察系统特征的实用指南。论文识别关键挑战并提出未来研究愿景，旨在支持开发者设计能暴露伦理维度的系统，使用户可应用自身解释做出知情决定，监管者能实施适当监督。评估为愿景性论证与挑战梳理，未报告实证结果。
A fundamental disconnection exists between system developers (who need concrete and measurable requirements) and other stakeholders like users and authorities (who, in various ways, seek to interact with the system). Users’ ethical views are often subjective and contextual, while authorities must monitor and enforce regulations over systems. This gap creates a “developer’s blind spot”, where systems are not designed in a way that enables stakeholders to understand and evaluate their ethical qualities. The core issue is a lack of practical guidelines for operationalizing abstract ethical values into observable system characteristics. This vision paper addresses the issue by identifying key challenges and proposing a vision for future research. The goal is to support developers in designing systems that expose their ethical dimensions, allowing users and authorities to apply their own interpretations and make informed decisions. By enlightening this blind spot, developers can better satisfy the needs of all stakeholders, enabling personal ethical evaluations by users and proper oversight by authorities.
@inproceedings{paperbot11955,
title = {Developers’ Blind Spot: Designing Systems to Enable Stakeholders’ Understanding of Ethical Qualities},
author = {Gianluca De Ninno and Martina De Sanctis and Paola Inverardi and Romina Spalazzese and Christos Tsigkanos},
booktitle = {ICSE},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1145/3786581.3786935}
}