Ethics Critiques

[savannanoh]

• Many said it was their favorite chapter!
• How do designers go about advocating for their values? Have specific resources and steps to take +3
• Include examples of HCI and design leading to unethical outcomes. Have examples of issues caused by ethics not being considered when designing +1
• How to navigate moral dilemmas?
• In the intro, have a quick primer of ethical theory
• Is it really true that you have to pick diversity in culture and ability or learnability? Student gives example of stairs making it into buildings across cultures and countries
• Is it possible to design “too ethically” and lead to more problems?
• Student disagrees that social media only amplifies division; gives example that a politically neutral person could have become swayed by social media
• Discuss the ethics of consuming technology, and how psychology plays a role in this
• Mention how tech innovation inevitably increases the digital divide–and increases the wealth gap and inequality and leaves some behind/excluded
• Expand more on professional martyrdom. Where to draw the line for a company’s ethical/unethical actions?
• Should the public/community be more educated about design and ethics? What is the public’s role in creating feedback for ethical design?
• Why do we, as designers and researchers, cater to the majority? Why not adjust the research method? What alternatives are there?
• Have illustrations showing the impact for each section (for example, a picture of tech waste in a landfill)
• How much say do you have in a company’s values at a big tech company? Have examples of individuals successfully advocating for ethics at a tech company and resources pointing to other cases +1
• Intro of the chapter mentions it’s about interfaces, not interactions. What does that mean and why is it significant? What’s the difference between the two?
• What can designers do to reduce the energy needs of the internet?
• Include examples of case studies/interviews of people currently making some of these ethical choices
• If tech is an amplifier, anything man made will have pain and negativity since these are part of human nature, right?
• Talk about other stakeholders in building interfaces and the parts they play in design ethics, for instance, researchers and project managers
• Student found ending frustrating–nowhere to turn to or look to for direction, just left to decide for themselves. Who (designers, companies) can they look up to?
• How to navigate the tension between trying to design for everyone and not leave everyone out vs this being an unrealistic approach?
• Student believes people using tech interfaces in bad faith should not be blamed on the tech or the designer, who designed it in good faith. Maybe should address this
• How to tell if someone’s actually using inclusive design, universal design, participatory design, value-sensitive design, and design justice, vs just using the narrative? How do you evaluate design ethics?
• All talk about ethics without action isn’t impactful. How to incorporate ethical practice in an impactful way?
• How will standardization be affected when AI/ML start doing more design?
• What should the industry do? Should they hire a designated ethics person?
• Things to include:
  • https://greentheweb.com/
  • Include references to Design Justice
  • Right to Repair laws (why didn’t Google’s Project Ara take off?)
  • Mike Monteiro's book Ruined by Design
• Terminology:
  • Re-define the types of design in the intro since it’s been a while since we saw them +1
• Student questions:
  • How has the discipline of philosophy impacted how we think of ethics in HCI?
  • Do academics who study ethics in HCI typically back training in ethics? if so, what does that look like?
  • How are ethics principles currently being integrated into industry, beyond pledges from some tech companies to "do better"?
• Grammar & typos:
  • "In this sense, innovations in interface software and technology is responsible for creating the demand, and therefore responsible for the pollution and waste".