Informed consent: vetting research software for privacy

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We’d like to be sure that the data about our research participants stays between us and the test participant, but are our participants fully aware of the data sharing agreements underlying their use of the testing tools? The confidentiality agreement they have with us is only part of the picture. In this article, I’ll discuss … Read more

UX-LX: Preventing Digital Harm Keynote and Searcher Behavior Workshop

In May, I was invited to speak at UX Lisbon, on Preventing Digital Harm in Online Spaces. At the main event, I presented the Internet Safety Lab’s framework for preventing digital harm in connected products. This included a discussion of the relationship technologies have with consumers. I demonstrated techniques designers should adopt to mitigate the … Read more

Ethics in Computer Programming: Move Fast, and Let Someone Else Break Things

In a session yesterday of the NSF CyberAmbassadors leadership training program, my breakout group were tasked with discussing a case study of a potential ethics violation in research data privacy. The Code of Conduct that we were to use to determine if a violation occurred was the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM). The case study … Read more

UX-LX: Designing Search Experiences in Lisbon!

May 24, 2023 9:00AM-12:30PM WETSensemaking, Search and SEO at UX-LX: UX Lisbon Designing Effective Search Experiences How do people locate and discover information online? Well, they type keywords into a search engine and then select items from the search results, right? This is the current mental model of how search/retrieval works for most users. But … Read more