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Research Ethics and HCI

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The expansion of human–computer interaction (HCI) to every aspect of human activity creates new challenges to the core ethical mandates of doing no harm, maintaining respect for people who participate in our studies, and weighing the costs and benefits of research, making sure that they are distributed fairly over the population. Online research adds further complications. This chapter reviews the ethical challenges and helps researchers prepare their cases for the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval.

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    IRB members employed by state institutions may be protected by the doctrine of sovereign immunity. Exact laws vary by state. See Bordas (1984) for a detailed discussion.

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Bruckman, A. (2014). Research Ethics and HCI. In: Olson, J., Kellogg, W. (eds) Ways of Knowing in HCI. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0378-8_18

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