{"id":199,"date":"2005-09-12T21:17:05","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T21:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2005-09-12T21:17:05","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T21:17:05","slug":"ubicomp-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/199","title":{"rendered":"UbiComp Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great article on the ethical standards of Interaction Designers in the era of Ubiquitous Computing. <\/p>\n

The actual ethics start about halfway down the page, but it’s a good read even before that. <\/p>\n

Check it out<\/a><\/p>\n

To the ethics stated here, I would add:<\/p>\n

Principle 6. Be Imaginative.*<\/strong> Do not create a system or piece of a system simply to for the sake of itself. If the “user” could make a cup of coffee (for example) just as easily without your system, then there’s no need for the system to be there. This may seem obvious, but why do I get the feeling that it won’t be in about 12 years? <\/p>\n

WARNING: It’s gets a little technical for the untrained eye, so beware. All you HCIers, have at it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* This is a shout out to Marty’s<\/a> Computer Imagination<\/em>, aka “The thing that HCI\/d’ers should strive for.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great article on the ethical standards of Interaction Designers in the era of Ubiquitous Computing. The actual ethics start about halfway down the page, but it’s a good read even before that. Check it out To the ethics stated here, I would add: Principle 6. Be Imaginative.* Do not create a system or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hci-topic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t