{"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":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great article on the ethical standards of Interaction Designers in the era of Ubiquitous Computing.  <\/p>\n<p>The actual ethics start about halfway down the page, but it&#8217;s a good read even before that.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxesandarrows.com\/archives\/all_watched_over_by_machines_of_loving_grace_some_ethical_guidelines_for_user_experience_in_ubiquitous-computing_settings_1.php\">Check it out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the ethics stated here, I would add:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principle 6. Be Imaginative.*<\/strong>  Do not create a system or piece of a system simply to for the sake of itself.  If the &#8220;user&#8221; could make a cup of coffee (for example) just as easily without your system, then there&#8217;s no need for the system to be there.  This may seem obvious, but why do I get the feeling that it won&#8217;t be in about 12 years?  <\/p>\n<p><strong>WARNING: It&#8217;s gets a little technical for the untrained eye, so beware.  All you HCIers, have at it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* This is a shout out to <a href=\"http:\/\/xavier.informatics.indiana.edu\/hciblogs\/msiegel\/\">Marty&#8217;s<\/a> <em>Computer Imagination<\/em>, aka &#8220;The thing that HCI\/d&#8217;ers should strive for.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}