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Opportunities and Scaffolds for Critical Reflection on Ethical Issues in an Online After School Biowearable Workshop for Youth

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Alissa N. Antle,

Alexandra Kitson,

Yumiko Murai,

John Desnoyers-Stewart,

Yves Candau,

Azadeh Adibi,

Katrien Jacobs,

Zoe Dao-KroekerAuthors Info & Claims

FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021: FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021 - An International Conference on Computing, Design and Making in Education

Article No.: 13, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3466725.3466762

Published: 27 August 2021 Publication History

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The rapid adoption of biowearables, such as smartwatches, raises ethical issues as youth are increasingly being tracked, monitored and given feedback on a growing number of measures. To address this pressing need, we investigated how to support youth to understand and explore these ethical issues grounded in the processes of prototyping during an afterschool online critical making workshop. The main contribution of this paper is our critical reflection framework, consisting of three interrelated components: ethical issues, technical opportunities, and reflection scaffolds. We focus on ethical issues related to the potential for biowearables to negatively impact six constructs taken from child development. We describe how we created a biowearable-tangible prototyping kit that has under-determined design decision points, creating technologically-mediated opportunities for reflection during the iterative prototyping process. Third, we present a set of critical reflection cards created to support youth to explore the ethical issues related to those decision points. We provide two scenarios from a pilot study that illustrate our framework in action, providing preliminary validation for our approach in an online environment.

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Minh-Tam Dao-Kroeker ZKitson AN. Antle AMurai YAdibi ARoussou MShahid SFails JLandoni M(2021)Designing Biotech Ethics Cards: Promoting Critical Making During an Online Workshop with YouthProceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3459990.3465182(450-455)Online publication date: 24-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3459990.3465182

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Peters DSadek MAhmadpour N(2023)Collaborative Workshops at Scale: A Method for Non-Facilitated Virtual Collaborative Design WorkshopsInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2023.224758940:19(5997-6014)Online publication date: 10-Sep-2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2247589
Minh-Tam Dao-Kroeker ZKitson AN. Antle AMurai YAdibi ARoussou MShahid SFails JLandoni M(2021)Designing Biotech Ethics Cards: Promoting Critical Making During an Online Workshop with YouthProceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3459990.3465182(450-455)Online publication date: 24-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3459990.3465182

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