Dealing with ethical challenges in HCI fieldwork

Cosmin Munteanu; Jenny Waycott; Roisin McNaney

doi:10.1145/3334480.3375057

Dealing with ethical challenges in HCI fieldwork

Cosmin Munteanu, Jenny Waycott, Roisin McNaney

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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'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Joanna McGrenere, Andy Cockburn
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450368193
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3375057
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 - Honolulu , United States of America Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 Conference number: 38th https://chi2020.acm.org (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3313831 (Proceedings)

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Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020
Abbreviated title	CHI 2020
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20
Internet address	https://chi2020.acm.org (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3313831 (Proceedings)

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Munteanu, C, Waycott, J & McNaney, R 2020, Dealing with ethical challenges in HCI fieldwork. in J McGrenere & A Cockburn (eds), CHI'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3375057, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020, Honolulu , Hawaii, United States of America, 25/04/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3375057

Dealing with ethical challenges in HCI fieldwork. / Munteanu, Cosmin; Waycott, Jenny; McNaney, Roisin.
CHI'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Joanna McGrenere; Andy Cockburn. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. 3375057.

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