Environmental Scan and Evaluation of Key Attributes of Training Scenarios Involving Moral-ethical Dilemmas for Military Personnel

This funding opportunity is seeking submissions to conduct an environmental scan of academic literature, public documents, emerging trends, best practices, and challenges in moral-ethical dilemma scenarios, including recommendations for a conjoint experiment.

Final report to include the following:

• Final research report that outlines new and emerging research, best practices and approaches for developing scenarios involving moral ethical dilemmas (including scenarios developed for VR environments).
• Identify and summarize academic literature and public documents regarding the types of virtual scenarios and key attributes of moral-ethical dilemmas relevant to military personnel.
• Example attributes for consideration include perspective, interaction with leadership, decision-making role, moral-ethical dilemmas, urgency, physical distance, naturalistic decision making, experience, demographic variables, and demographic factors like sex/gender and ethnicity.
• Provide recommendations on how to systematically evaluate the different features within each of the identified key attributes of scenarios involving moral-ethical dilemmas.
• Provide recommendations for gender-based analysis and considering factors from both end user and leadership perspectives.
• Provide recommendations for experimental design of a follow-up conjoint analysis from the end-user and leadership perspective based on the identified attributes and features from the environmental scan.
• Bibliography of documents used to produce the final report.