Experimenting with the Ethical Impact Assessment as a Grounding Socio Technical Practice
This paper discusses an experiment with a formative method for ethical impact assessment (EIA) in the context of IT design for multi agency crisis management that draws on scenarios and role playing to ground ethics in a broader socio technical domain not just in user needs and values. Contextualising the EIA discussions in this way opened up new avenues for addressing ethical concerns, broadening the design context from a focus on usability to thinking creatively and collaboratively through ethical, legal and social implications.
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