Ethics in HCI

ABSTRACT

Users are human. As HCI professionals we must be sure that our fellow humans perceive their encounter with usability and design professionals as pleasant without sacrificing the accuracy of our results. There are guidelines produced by professional organizations like the APA and the ACM about how HCI professionals should behave. However, there are few examples from real life about how to translate this information into everyday behavior. This panel will discuss specific examples of HCI dilemmas that the panelists have faced in their daily work.

REFERENCES

• 1: ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practices. Software engineering code of ethics and professional practice. Available at http://www.acm.org/serving/se/code.htm
• 2: American Psychological Association (APA). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct. Available at http://www.apa.org/ethics/code.html
• 3: Wendy E. Mackay, Ethics, lies and videotape…, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.138-145, May 07-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado, United States [doi>10.1145/223904.223922]
• 4: Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1993

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
      K.7.4 Professional Ethics
          Subjects: Ethical dilemmas

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: User-centered design

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
      K.7.4 Professional Ethics
          Subjects: Codes of ethics

General Terms:
Human Factors

Keywords:
HCI professional issues, ethics, social computing