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A Social Threat Modeling Framework to Structure Teaching about Responsible Computing

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SIGCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1

Pages 402 - 408

https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569760

Published: 03 March 2023 Publication History

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Myriad projects and efforts are underway to infuse more content on ethical and socially-responsible computing into Computer Science curricula. Talks and papers on these projects largely focus on case studies and examples that can be included in assignments. This paper instead takes a pedagogic perspective. Drawing on papers on ethics-based design from multiple computing disciplines, as well as frameworks for identifying security threats, we designed a framework for identifying a variety of social threats in the kinds of programs that university students develop in their first two years of study. The framework is unique in centering around architectural components of applications, rather than stakeholders and values.

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A Social Threat Modeling Framework to Structure Teaching about Responsible Computing
1. Human-centered computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education

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Brooks AMonga MLonati VBarendsen ESheard JPaterson J(2024)Agile Ethics: A Low Stakes, Skills-based Framework for Teaching CS EthicsProceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3649217.3653539(492-498)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2024
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Landesman RSalac JLim JKo A(2024)Integrating Philosophy Teaching Perspectives to Foster Adolescents' Ethical Sensemaking of Computing TechnologiesProceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 110.1145/3632620.3671106(502-516)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2024
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