Identifying Ethical Challenges in XR Implementations in the Industrial Domain: A Case of Off-Highway Machinery

TL;DR

This paper discusses the ethical and privacy challenges encountered when implementing XR technologies in the industrial off-highway machinery sector, highlighting key issues and providing insights for future research.

Contribution

It offers a case study of XR implementation in industry, identifying main ethical challenges and proposing a foundation for future discussions and research.

Findings

Main ethical challenges identified in XR industrial applications

Privacy concerns are prominent in XR implementations

Guidelines for ethical XR use in industry suggested

Abstract

Although extended reality(XR)-using technologies have started to be discussed in the industrial setting, it is becoming important to understand how to implement them ethically and privacy-preservingly. In our paper, we summarise our experience of developing XR implementations for the off-highway machinery domain by pointing to the main challenges we identified during the work. We believe that our findings can be a starting point for further discussion and future research regarding privacy and ethical challenges in industrial applications of XR.