Avoiding and mitigating ethical traps in technocentric fieldwork

Cosmin Munteanu; Roisin McNaney; Jenny Waycott

doi:10.1145/3290607.3298812

Avoiding and mitigating ethical traps in technocentric fieldwork

Cosmin Munteanu
, Roisin McNaney
, Jenny Waycott

Bristol Neuroscience

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We are witnessing an increase in fieldwork within the field of HCI, particularly involving marginalized or under-represented populations. This has posed ethical challenges for researchers during such field studies, with "ethical traps" not always identified during planning stages. This is often aggravated by the inconsistent policy guidelines, training, and application of ethical principles. We ground this in our collective experiences with ethically-difficult research, and frame it within common principles that are common across many disciplines and policy guidelines - representative of the instructors' diverse and international backgrounds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359719
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3298812
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019

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Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19

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Ethics

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Munteanu, C, McNaney, R & Waycott, J 2019, Avoiding and mitigating ethical traps in technocentric fieldwork. in CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3298812, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3298812

Avoiding and mitigating ethical traps in technocentric fieldwork. / Munteanu, Cosmin; McNaney, Roisin; Waycott, Jenny.
CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 3298812.

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