Posts Tagged ‘ethics’
Unethical interfaces
Posted by: clare on: October 17, 2012
Here’s a story that really annoyed me this week: iPhone users being tracked, and opting out is tricky. What annoyed me isn’t so much the tracking itself — as Mike Jewell pointed out, the tracking uses aggregate data rather than information that can necessarily identify you personally. What I’m annoyed about is the interface. As [...]
Uncomfortable Interactions
Posted by: clare on: April 11, 2012
One of the joys of working at Culture Lab is the excellent seminar series. Yesterday we welcomed Steve Benford from Nottingham’s Mixed Reality lab, who talked to us about Uncomfortable Interactions. This is work that was given a Best Paper award at this year’s CHI conference, and it was a treat. Uncomfortable? (CC Image courtesy [...]
Web-based resources for ethical research
Posted by: clare on: January 3, 2012
Another of the conversations I had at the workshop on best practice in User-Centered Design concerned the ethics process. As I mentioned in my original write-up of the day, I did a quick straw poll and was surprised to find a roughly fifty-fifty split amongst participants regarding whether their workplaces use a formal ethics process. [...]
