This is the first week of the new semester, though Dr Paola Amaldi-Trillo was supposed to start this semester with us as the main tutor for the above module, I suppose she is still on her sabbatical. That simply means we still have Dr Fields for the week, I am quite sure to most of my team mates, It does not make much difference if it is Bob or Paola.
The topic for today is supposed to be ‘Ethics and Interaction Design’
However, the session did not hold. In it, we were meant to raise some practical issues that have bearing to several aspects of Interaction Design, and also discuss some of the ethical and moral problems that may arise in the practice of Interaction Design, some of the guidelines that can help to alleviate or avoid difficulties.
The following reading materials were recommended in order to understand more and share some ethical problems or dilemmas that we have faced or are aware of:
Chauncey E. Wilson (2007) Ethical dilemmas redux. Interactions.
Volume 14, Issue 4 (July + August 2007). Pages: 50 – 51.
(Available from the ACM Digital Library)
Wendy E. Mackay (1995) Ethics, lies and videotape…
Proceedings of CHI’95: Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems. Pages: 138 – 145.
(Available from the ACM Digital Library)
Toni Robertson (2006) Ethical issues in interaction design. Ethics
and Information Technology.
Volume 8 , Issue 2 (June 2006), Pages: 49 – 59
( from http://www.springerlink.com/ or http://research.it.uts.edu.au/
idwop/downloads/RobertsonEthics&IT.pdf)
Today, we started as usual with a little bit of informal discussions at beginning of the session, after which we moved on to the issue of the day, which are presentations on individual draft projects. David started with his Lead users’ idea, and then Halil came up with the Augmented Reality Paradigm, Dikshit showed us his Augmented Reality from the Architectural perspective, Finally Dean discussed about a product like the GPS navigational systems free for kids entering the zoo, though it is an existing product, he talked about additional features to the hand-held systems.
