panel

Research Ethics Town Hall Meeting

Authors:

Pernille Bjorn,

Michael Muller,

Pamela WisniewskiAuthors Info & Claims

GROUP '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Pages 393 - 396

https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3154523

Published: 07 January 2018 Publication History

Abstract

As technology and data access continue to evolve, research ethics in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and social computing are becoming increasingly complex. Despite increasing interest among researchers, there is still a lack of consistent community norms around ethical gray areas. One charge of the SIGCHI ethics committee is to help develop these norms by facilitating open conversations with different stakeholders. This panel will be an opportunity to develop a collective understanding of diverse perspectives on ethics, and to gather input from the GROUP research community around the ethical challenges we face as researchers who study social and collaborative computing systems and those who use these systems.

References

[1]

Konstantin Aal, George Yerousis, Kai Schubert, Dominik Hornung, Oliver Stickel, and Volker Wulf (2014). Come_in@ Palestine: adapting a German computer club concept to a Palestinian refugee camp. Proc. CABS, 111--120.

Digital Library

[2]

Shaowen Bardzell (2010). Feminist HCI: Taking stock and outlining an agenda for design. Proc. CHI 2010, 1301--1310.

Digital Library

[3]

Solon Barocas and Helen Nissenbaum (2014). Big data's end run around anonymity and consent. In Privacy, big data, and the public good: Frameworks for engagement, J. Lane, V. Stodden, S. Bender and Helen Nissenbaum (eds.). Cambridge University Press.

[4]

Gro Bjerknes, Pelle Ehn, and Morten Kyng (1987) (eds.). Computers and democracy: A Scandinavian challenge. Brookfield VT USA: Gower.

[5]

Pernille Bjørn and Nina Boulus-Rødje (2011). Dissenting in reflective conversations: Critical components of doing action research. Action Res. J. 9(3): 282--302.

[6]

Pernille Bjørn, A.-M. Søderberg and S. Krishna (forthcoming). "Translocality in Global Software Development: The Dark Side of Global Agile." Human-Computer Interaction

[7]

Nina Boulus-Rødje, Pernille Bjørn, and Ahmad. Ghazawneh (2015). "It's about Business, not Politics": an ethnographic study of an Israeli-Palestinian web start-up. Proc. Int. Conf. Crit. Geo 2015.

[8]

Janne C.H. Bromseth (2002). Public places -- public activities' Methodological approaches and ethical dilemmas in research on computer-mediated communication contexts. In Andrew Morrison (ed), Researching ICTs in context, Intermedia -- University of Oslo, 33--61.

[9]

Barry Brown, Alexandra Wellenmann, Donald McMillan, and Airi Lampinen (2016). Five provocations for ethical HCI research. Proc. CHI 2016, 852--863.

Digital Library

[10]

Amy S. Bruckman, Casey Fiesler, Jeff Hancock, and Cosmin Monteanu (2017). CSCW research ethics town hall: Working towards community norms. CSCW 2017 Companion, 113--115.

Digital Library

[11]

Jill P. Dimond, Michaelanne Dye, Daphne Larose, and Amy S. Bruckman (2013). Hollaback!: The role of storytelling online in a social movement organization. Proc. CHI 2013, 477--490.

[12]

Lynn Dombrowski, Ellie Harmon, and Sarah Fox (2016). Social justice-oriented interaction design: Outlining key design strategies and commitments. Proc. DIS 2016, 656--671.

Digital Library

[13]

Casey Fiesler, Alyson Young, Tamara Peyton, Amy S. Bruckman, Mary Gray, Jeff Hancock, and Wayne Lutters (2015). Ethics for studying online sociotechnical systems in a big data world. Proc. CSCW 2015, 289--292.

Digital Library

[14]

Casey Fiesler, Pamela Wisniewski, Jessica Pater, and Nazanin Andalibi (2016). Exploring ethics and obligations for studying digital communities. Proc.CSCW 2016, 457--460.

Digital Library

[15]

Mary Flanagan, Daniel C. Howe, and Helen Nissenbaum (2008). Embodying values in technology: Theory and practice. In Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (eds), Information technology and moral philosophy. Cambridge Univesity Press, 322--353.

[16]

Sarah Fox, Mariam Asad, Katherine Lo, Jill P. Dimond, Lynn S. Dombrowski, and Shaowen Bardzell (2016). Exploring social justice, design, and HCI. CHI EA 2016, 3293--3300.

Digital Library

[17]

Sarah Fox, Jill Dimond, Lilly Irani, Tad Hirsch, Michael Muller, and Shaowen Bardzell (2017). Social justice and design: Power and oppression in collaborative systems. CSCW 2017 Companion, 117--122.

Digital Library

[18]

Sarah Fox, Amanda Menking, Stephanie Steinhardt, Anne Lauren Hoffman, and Shaowen Bardzell (2017). Imagining intersectional futures: Feminist approaches in CSCW. CSCW 2017 Companion, 387--393.

Digital Library

[19]

Christopher Frauenberger, Amy S. Bruckman, Cosmin Montaneau, Melissa Densmore, and Jenny Waycott (2017). Research ethics in HCI: A town hall meeting. CHI EA 2017, 1295--1299.

Digital Library

[20]

Batya Friedman, Peter H. Kahn, and Alan Borning (2006). Value sensitive design and information systems. In Zhang, P., and Galetta, D.F. (eds), Human-computer interaction and management information systems: Foundations. Routledge.

[21]

Jamila Ghaddar, Danielle Allard, and Melissa A. Hubbard (2016). Archival interventions: Anti-violence and social justice work in community contexts. Proc. ASIST 2016, art 12.

Digital Library

[22]

Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng (1991). Design at work: Cooperative design of computer systems. Erlbaum.

Digital Library

[23]

Gillian Hayes (2011). The relationship of action research to human computer interaction. TOCHI 18(2), art. 15.

Digital Library

[24]

James M. Hudson and Amy Bruckman (2004). "Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The Information Society 20(2), 127--139.

[25]

Ronald Inglehart et al. (2000). World values survey and European values surveys, 1981--1984, 1990--1993, and 1995--1997. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research #2790. http://faith-health.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wvs.pdf

[26]

Karim Jabbar and Pernille Bjørn (2017 ). Growing the Blockchain information infrastructure. Proc. CHI 2017, 6487--6498.

Digital Library

[27]

Nobert Jere, Ndahafa Mungonena, Anicia Peters (2016). Social media usage in Africa and its ethical implications. Proc. AfroCHI 2016, 263--266.

Digital Library

[28]

Sze Yin Kwok, Anya Skatova, Victoria Shipp, and Andy Crabtree (2015). The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras. Proc. MobileHCI 2015, 1054--1057.

Digital Library

[29]

Gregory McNeal (2014). Facebook manipulated user news feeds to create emotional responses. Forbes.

[30]

Jessica Mesman (2007). Disturbing observations as a basis for collaborative research. Sci. as Cult. 16(3), 281--295.

[31]

Michael Minkov and Geert Hofstede (2012). Is national culture a meaningful concept? Cultural values delineate homogeneous national clusters of in-country regions. Cross-Cultural Res. 46(2), 133--159.

[32]

Cosmin Monteanu, Heather Molyneaux, Wendy Moncur, Mario Romero, Susan O'Donnell, and John Vines (2015). Situational ethics: Re-thinking approaches to formal ethics requirements for human-computer interaction. Proc. CHI 2015, 105--114.

Digital Library

[33]

Michael Muller and Allison Druin (2010). Participatory design: The third space of HCI. In Julie Jacko (ed), Human-computer interaction handbook, CRC press.

[34]

Michael Muller and Q. Vera Liao (2016). Using participatory design fictions to explore ethics and values for robots and agents. HCIC 2016. https://www.slideshare.net/traincroft/hcic-muller-and-liao-participatory-design-fictions-77345391

[35]

Sarah North (2005). Different values, different skills? A comparison of essay writing by students from arts and science backgrounds. Stud. Higher Educ. 30(5).

[36]

Jacki O'Neil, Michael Muller, M. Six Silberman, and Mark Ackerman (2017). Beyond computing for social good? ECSCW panel in celebrating the life and work of David Martin. ECSCW 2017.

[37]

Janet C. Read, Matthew Horton, Gavin Sim, Peggy Gregory, Daniel Fitton, and Brendan Cassidy (2013). CHECK: A tool to inform and encourage ethical practice in participatory design with children. CHI EA 2013, 187--192.

Digital Library

[38]

Katharina Reinecke, Mihn Khoa-Nguyen, Abraham Bernstein, Michael Naf, and Krzysztof Gajos (2013). Doodle around the world: Online scheduling behavior reflects cultural differences in time perception and group decision-making. Proc. CSCW 2013, 45--54.

Digital Library

[39]

Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka (1993) (Eds.). Participatory design: Principles and practices. Erlbaum.

Digital Library

[40]

Shalom H. Schwartz. (2010). Values: Individual and cultural. In S. M. Breugelmans, A. Chasiotis, F. J. R. van de Vijver (Eds.), Fundamental questions in cross-cultural psychology, 463--493. Cambridge University Press.

[41]

Reem Talhouk, Vassilis Vlachokyriakos, Anne Weibert, Konstantin Aal, Syed Ishtiatque Ahmed, Karen Fisher, and Volker Wulf (2017). Refugees and HCI workshop: The role of HCI in responding to the refugee crisis. CHI EA 2017, 558--565.

Digital Library

[42]

Kristen Vaccaro, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig, Kevin Hamilton, and Cedric Langbort (2015). Agree or Cancel? Research and Terms of Service Compliance. CSCW 2015 Workshop on Ethics for Studying Sociotechnical Systems in a Big Data World.

[43]

John Vines, Roisin McNaney, Rachel Clarke, Stephen Lindsay, John McCarthy, Steve Howard, Mario Romero, and Jayne Wallace (2013). Designing for- and with- vulnerable people. CHI EA 2013, 3231--3234.

Digital Library

[44]

Jessica Vitak, Katie Shilton, and Zahra Ashktorab. Beyond the Belmont principles: Ethical challenges, practices, and beliefs in the online data research community. Proc. CSCW 2016, 941--953.

Digital Library

[45]

Jessica Vitak, Nicholas Proferes, Katie Shilton, and Zahra Ashktorab (2017). Ethics Regulation in Social Computing Research: Examining the Role of Institutional Review Boards. J. Emp. Res. Hum. Res. Ethics: 1556264617725200.

[46]

Douglas M. Walls (2016). User experience in social justice contexts. Proc. SIGDOC 2016, art. 9.

Digital Library

[47]

Jenny Waycott, Cosmin Munteanu, Hilary Davis, Anja Thieme, Wendy Moncur, Roisin McNaney, John Vines, and Stacy Branham (2016). Ethical encounters in human-computer interaction. Proc. CHI 2016, 3387--3394.

Digital Library

[48]

Pamela Wisniewski, Jessica Vitak, Xinru Page, Bart Knijnenburg, Yang Wang, and Casey Fiesler (2017). In whose best interest?: Exploring the real, potential, and imagined ethical concerns in privacy-focused agenda. CSCW 2017 Companion, 377--382.

Digital Library

[49]

Wulf, V., K. Aal, I. A. Ktesh, M. Atam, K. Schubert, G. Yerousis, D. Randall and M. Rohde (2013). Fighting against the wall: Social media use by political activist in a Palestinian village. CHI. Paris, France, ACM.

Digital Library

[50]

Michael Zimmer (2010). "But the data is already public": On the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and Info. Tech. 12(4), 313--325.

Digital Library

[51]

Michael Zimmer (2016). OkCupid study reveals the perils of big-data science. WIRED.

Cited By

Cha IPillai AWong R(2024)Ethics Pathways: A Design Activity for Reflecting on Ethics Engagement in HCI ResearchProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3660714(3515-3533)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3660714
Fiesler CPater JRead JVitak JZimmer M(2023)Internet Research Ethics: A CSCW Community DiscussionCompanion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing10.1145/3584931.3606952(566-568)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584931.3606952
Do KPang RJiang JReinecke K(2023)“That’s important, but...”: How Computer Science Researchers Anticipate Unintended Consequences of Their Research InnovationsProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581347(1-16)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581347
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Research Ethics Town Hall Meeting
1. Human-centered computing

Recommendations

Research Ethics for HCI: A Roundtable Discussion
CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

An ongoing challenge within the HCI research community is the development of community norms for research ethics in the face of evolving technology and methods. Building upon a successful town hall meeting at CHI 2017, this panel will include members of ...
Exploring Ethics and Obligations for Studying Digital Communities
GROUP '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Many of the most prominent and unanswered ethical questions within HCI and social computing involve our ethical obligation to the communities that we study. Some of these questions fall under the purview of more traditional human subjects research ...
Research Ethics in HCI: A SIGCHI Community Discussion
CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

An ongoing challenge within the HCI community is coming to a shared understanding of research ethics in the face of our diverse disciplinary traditions, evolving technologies and methods, and multiple geographic and cultural settings. Building upon ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

GROUP '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

January 2018

422 pages

ISBN:9781450355629

DOI:10.1145/3148330

General Chairs:
Andrea Forte
Drexel University, USA
,
Michael Prilla
Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
,
Adriana Vivacqua
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
,
Program Chairs:
Claudia Müller
University of Siegen, Germany
,
Lionel P. Robert
University of Michigan, USA

Copyright © 2018 Owner/Author.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

Sponsors

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 07 January 2018

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Panel

Conference

GROUP '18

Sponsor:

SIGCHI

GROUP '18: 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork

January 7 - 10, 2018

Florida, Sanibel Island, USA

Acceptance Rates

GROUP '18 Paper Acceptance Rate 22 of 94 submissions, 23%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 125 of 405 submissions, 31%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

12
Total Citations
View Citations
162
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)7
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 25 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Cha IPillai AWong R(2024)Ethics Pathways: A Design Activity for Reflecting on Ethics Engagement in HCI ResearchProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3660714(3515-3533)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3660714
Fiesler CPater JRead JVitak JZimmer M(2023)Internet Research Ethics: A CSCW Community DiscussionCompanion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing10.1145/3584931.3606952(566-568)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584931.3606952
Do KPang RJiang JReinecke K(2023)“That’s important, but...”: How Computer Science Researchers Anticipate Unintended Consequences of Their Research InnovationsProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581347(1-16)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581347
Salehzadeh Niksirat KGoswami LS. B. Rao PTyler JSilacci AAliyu SAebli AWacharamanotham CCherubini M(2023)Changes in Research Ethics, Openness, and Transparency in Empirical Studies between CHI 2017 and CHI 2022Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3580848(1-23)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580848
Pater JFiesler CZimmer M(2022)No Humans HereProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34928576:GROUP(1-13)Online publication date: 14-Jan-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3492857
Fiesler CFrauenberger CMuller MVitak JZimmer M(2022)Research Ethics in HCI: A SIGCHI Community DiscussionExtended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491101.3516400(1-3)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3516400
Fiesler CDensmore MMuller MMunteanu C(2021)SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee Town HallCompanion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing10.1145/3462204.3483283(232-233)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3462204.3483283
Hodge JFoley SBrankaert RKenning GLazar ABoger JMorrissey KBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Relational, Flexible, Everyday: Learning from Ethics in Dementia ResearchProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3313831.3376627(1-16)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3313831.3376627
Munteanu CBruckman AMuller MFrauenberger CFiesler CKraut RShilton KWaycott JBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)SIGCHI Research Ethics Town HallExtended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290607.3311742(1-6)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290607.3311742
Soden RSkirpan MFiesler CAshktorab ZBaumer EBlythe MJones JBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)CHI4EVILExtended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290607.3299033(1-8)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290607.3299033
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten