Legal, social and ethical aspects of interactive technologies Alistair Edwards
LSEP Legal Social Ethical Professional
Which decisions have no ethical aspects? Ethics What is (are) ethics? The moral principles by which a person is guided (OED) Which decisions have no ethical aspects? None
What are Ethics? Ethics are based on an underlying moral code That code is culturally dependent Different philosophical schools imply different codes of ethics
What are Ethics? As well as legal codes there are codes of ethics Usually applied by organizations
Professional codes of ethics User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA, USA) https://uxpa.org/resources/uxpa-code-professional-conduct User Practitioner Association (UK) ? British Computer Society (BCS) http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.6030 British Psychological Society http://www.bps.org.uk/the-society/code-of-conduct/code-of-conduct_home.cfm Ethical Principles for conducting Research with Human Participants http://www.bps.org.uk/document-download-area/document-download$.cfm?file_uuid=F1C8E142-E935-EC00-75FD-519F1FDDEA5D&ext=pdf
Professional codes of ethics What happens if you break one the code of ethics of an organization you belong to? err… nothing You might be expelled from the organization but who cares?
There are no hard-and-fast rules What are Ethics? There are no hard-and-fast rules beyond the law …and even that is subject to judgement Personal judgements Cultural differences Every decision you make has an ethical (values) dimension Nothing I say today can be taken as definitive
Ethics and legality The legal system reflects the extremes of the moral code Just because something is legal it is not necessarily ethical Examples?
The legal system reflects the extremes of the moral code Ethics and legality The legal system reflects the extremes of the moral code Just because something is legal it is not necessarily ethical Examples? Tax avoidance verses tax evasion
Tax avoidance verses tax evasion
The legal system reflects the extremes of the moral code Ethics and legality The legal system reflects the extremes of the moral code Just because something is legal it is not necessarily ethical Examples? Tax avoidance verses tax evasion MPs and expenses
MPs and expenses
The legal system reflects the extremes of the moral code Ethics and legality The legal system reflects the extremes of the moral code Just because something is legal it is not necessarily ethical Examples? Tax avoidance verses tax evasion MPs and expenses Others?
LSEP and ADVT What are legal, social, ethical and professional considerations with regard to each of the classes in this module?