This course aims to provide attendees with the theoretical background and practical examples that can assist them in tackling the ethical implications they may face when conducting field trials of mobile technologies or lab-based experiments with vulnerable users. This will be grounded in common principles transcending national or institutional guidelines. The learning focus will be on core principles rather than on the specific “letter of the law”, thus allowing attendees to better contextualize the general ethical principles to the particular discipline or country where they conduct their own research.
The course has benefitted from several contributors who are co-organizers of the CHI Workshop Series on Ethical Encounters in HCI:
Hilary Davis
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Australia
davish@unimelb.edu.au
John Vines
Newcastle University, UK
john.vines@ncl.ac.uk
Anja Thieme
Microsoft Research
Cambridge, UK
t-anthie@microsoft.com
Stacy Branham
University of Maryland
Baltimore MD, 21250 USA
sbranham@umbc.edu
Wendy Moncur
University of Dundee
Dundee, UK
w.moncur@dundee.ac.uk