HCI professionalism: ethical concerns in usability engineering Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:87135, author = {Burmeister, Oliver K.}, booktitle = {CRPITS '00: Selected papers from the second Australian Institute conference on Computer ethics}, citeulike-article-id = {87135}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=563718}, comment = {It has been argued that it is in the best interests of IT professionals, to adopt and enforce professional codes in the work place. Yet applying the Australian Computer Society's Code of Ethics in actual every day situations has been left to individuals. This paper aims to help usability engineers interpret the code. This is achieved by utilising five case studies both directly in terms of the ethical issues involved and in the light of the code. The paper also examines the short-comings of the code in the domain of usability engineering. The paper concludes with suggestions of how the code might be enhanced to better aid the HCI professional in their work.}, keywords = {ethics, hci, usability}, pages = {11--17}, posted-at = {2005-02-03 22:36:27}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Australian Computer Society, Inc.}, title = {HCI professionalism: ethical concerns in usability engineering}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=563718}, year = {2000} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:87135 L3 - citeulike-article-id:87135 EP - 17 TI - HCI professionalism: ethical concerns in usability engineering PB - Australian Computer Society, Inc. T2 - CRPITS '00: Selected papers from the second Australian Institute conference on Computer ethics SP - 11 KW - ethics KW - hci KW - usability N1 - It has been argued that it is in the best interests of IT professionals, to adopt and enforce professional codes in the work place. Yet applying the Australian Computer Society's Code of Ethics in actual every day situations has been left to individuals. This paper aims to help usability engineers interpret the code. This is achieved by utilising five case studies both directly in terms of the ethical issues involved and in the light of the code. The paper also examines the short-comings of the code in the domain of usability engineering. The paper concludes with suggestions of how the code might be enhanced to better aid the HCI professional in their work. AU - Burmeister, Oliver PY - 2000/// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=563718 ER -