Building an Ethics-Focused Action Plan: Roles, Process Moves, and Trajectories. Gray, C. M, Obi, I., Chivukula, S. S., Li, Z., Carlock, T. V, Will, M. S, Pivonka, A. C, Johns, J., Rigsbee, B., Menon, A. R, & Bharadwaj, A. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, of CHI '24, pages 1–17, New York, NY, USA, May, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.
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Design and technology practitioners are increasingly aware of the ethical impact of their work practices, desiring tools to support their ethical awareness across a range of contexts. In this paper, we report on findings from a series of six co-creation workshops with 26 technology and design practitioners that supported their creation of a bespoke ethics-focused action plan. Using a qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis approach, we identified a range of roles and process moves that practitioners and design students with professional experience employed and illustrate the interplay of these elements that impacted the creation of their action plan and revealed aspects of their ethical design complexity. We conclude with implications for supporting ethics in socio-technical practice and opportunities for the further development of methods that support ethical engagement and are resonant with the realities of practice.
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  title     = "Building an Ethics-Focused Action Plan: Roles, Process Moves, and
               Trajectories",
  author    = "Gray, Colin M and Obi, Ike and Chivukula, Shruthi Sai and Li,
               Ziqing and Carlock, Thomas V and Will, Matthew S and Pivonka,
               Anne C and Johns, Janna and Rigsbee, Brookley and Menon, Ambika R
               and Bharadwaj, Aayushi",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
               Systems",
  publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
  address   = "New York, NY, USA",
  number    = "Article 295",
  pages     = "1--17",
  abstract  = "Design and technology practitioners are increasingly aware of the
               ethical impact of their work practices, desiring tools to support
               their ethical awareness across a range of contexts. In this
               paper, we report on findings from a series of six co-creation
               workshops with 26 technology and design practitioners that
               supported their creation of a bespoke ethics-focused action plan.
               Using a qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis
               approach, we identified a range of roles and process moves that
               practitioners and design students with professional experience
               employed and illustrate the interplay of these elements that
               impacted the creation of their action plan and revealed aspects
               of their ethical design complexity. We conclude with implications
               for supporting ethics in socio-technical practice and
               opportunities for the further development of methods that support
               ethical engagement and are resonant with the realities of
               practice.",
  series    = "CHI '24",
  month     =  may,
  year      =  2024,
  url       = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642302",
  keywords  = "design and technology practice, design method, ethics,
               instrumental judgment",
  doi       = "10.1145/3613904.3642302",
  isbn      =  9798400703300
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