¹ Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau, P R China.
² Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, Florida 33199 USA
³ Department of Marketing, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, Florida 33199 USA
⁴ Department of Decision Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida 33314 USA

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Abstract—Deontic conflicts are situations where you are “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” – where each of the available options will lead to an undesirable outcome or violation. How do people reason about deontic conflicts? In this paper we use the experimental technique of conjoint analysis to uncover the relevant decision factors that people use in such situations. Applications are to programming of robots that interact with humans in social situations and which may face deontic conflicts.

Index Terms—deontology; deontic conflict; conjoint analysis; robotics; robot vehicles; machine ethics

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Cite: Chen-Kuo Pai, Ronald Lee, Bruce Seaton, David Hinds, and Weidong Xia, " Assessing Deontic Trade-offs: A Conjoint Analysis Approach," Journal of Computers vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 1771-1776, 2013.