DroneSim

As a drone pilot, making decisions with moral relevance under time pressure.

A core feature of digitalization is the increasing delegation of decisions to software systems. This applies in particular to cases in which humans make presumably "worse" decisions than algorithmic systems due to time pressure or the abundance of information.

Dronesim is a playful and web-based framework for data collection for studies. Test persons are immersed in the game world and make decisions in the role of drone pilots in various scenarios. In both an anti-terrorism mission and a rescue mission, they receive assistance from experts or artificial intelligence. Successes and reaction times are measured and the subjects' confidence in the human or AI expertise is collected by means of comprehensive questionnaires. The collected data is then evaluated and serves as the basis for research work.

This serious game is being developed in close cooperation with the Swiss Drone and Robotics Centre of the Swiss Armed Forces Research + Technology, as well as the Institute of Computer Science and the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich. The purpose of the research is to gain insights into people's trust in digital decision-making systems based on artificial intelligence methods.