Five Provocations for Ethical HCI Research
2016 (English)In: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016, p. 852-863Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
We present five provocations for ethics, and ethical research, in HCI. We discuss, in turn, informed consent, the researcher-participant power differential, presentation of data in publications, the role of ethical review boards, and, lastly, corporate-facilitated projects. By pointing to unintended consequences of regulation and oversimplifications of unresolvable moral conflicts, we propose these provocations not as guidelines or recommendations but as instruments for challenging our views on what it means to do ethical research in HCI. We then suggest an alternative grounded in the sensitivities of those being studied and based on everyday practice and judgement, rather than one driven by bureaucratic, legal, or philosophical concerns. In conclusion, we call for a wider and more practical discussion on ethics within the community, and suggest that we should be more supportive of low-risk ethical experimentation to further the field.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. p. 852-863
Keywords [en]
Ethics, Human Trials, Research Practice
National Category
Information Systems
Research subject
Computer and Systems Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-136591DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858313ISI: 000380532900074ISBN: 978-1-4503-3362-7 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-136591DiVA, id: diva2:1055456
Conference
2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Santa Clara, California, USA, May 07 - 12, 2016
2016-12-122016-12-122022-02-28Bibliographically approved