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Human-Computer InteractionResearch EthicsResearchers in computer science (CS), software engineering (SE) and particularly human-computer interaction (HCI) conduct research using human subjects. Human subjects are implicated whenever researchers
Research with human subjects raises ethical issues that are not fully addressed in current texts on computing ethics or in existing codes of computing ethics. Human subjects research ethics are more explicitly dealt with in the social and biomedical sciences. However, many research practices common in CS, SE, and HCI – such as experiments using employees – are not adequately covered in the social and biomedical codes of human subjects research ethics. Moreover, in Australia, Canada, and the United States, much of the research with human subjects is required to comply with federal laws and/or codes of ethics authored by funding bodies. Once again, however, these codes do not deal properly with common CS, SE, and HCI research practices, in many cases simply prohibiting them. Consequently, compliance to existing codes of ethics can pose a problem for CS, SE, and HCI researchers. In response to these issues, a project in research ethics is underway at the NRC Institute for Information Technology. Its goals are to:
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