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Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering (2015)
Book Chapter
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering. In Internet Science (123-132). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_10

Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In... Read More about Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering.

Privacy concerns arising from internet service personalization filters (2015)
Journal Article
Koene, A., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Privacy concerns arising from internet service personalization filters. Computers and Society, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874263

Personal service customization, or personalization, is one of the core tools that are being used by on-line providers of information services such as search engines, social media, news sites and product recommender systems to optimize the individual... Read More about Privacy concerns arising from internet service personalization filters.

Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections (2015)
Journal Article
Vallejos, E. P., Pothong, K., Coleman, S., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., …O'Malley, C. (2015). Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections. Computers and Society, 45(3), 84-90. https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874252

A quick journey through prevention science (e.g., substance misuse prevention) and a comparison between online and offline risks, harm, and vulnerability in children suggests that new approaches and interventions are needed to promote Internet safety... Read More about Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections.

Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research (2015)
Journal Article
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2016). Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research. Computers and Society, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874268

In this paper, we outline an online survey-based study seeking to understand academic attitudes towards social media research ethics (SMRE). As the exploratory phase of a wider research project, findings are discussed in relation to the responses of... Read More about Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research.

Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. (2015). Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck.

The avionics industry is seeking to understand the challenges and benefits of touchscreens on flight decks. This paper presents an investigation of interactive displays on the flight deck focusing on the impact of target size, placement and vibration... Read More about Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck.

Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Wu, F., Ramchurn, S. D., Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2015). Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (132-138)

We consider a setting where an agent-based planner instructs teams of human emergency responders to perform tasks in the real world. Due to uncertainty in the environment and the inability of the planner to consider all human preferences and all attr... Read More about Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response.

Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Adolphs, S., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources. In Corpus Linguistics 2015: abstract book (204-206)

With the rising popularity of public and semi-public communication channels such as Blogs (late 1990s), Wikipedia (launched in 2001), Facebook (launched in 2004), Reddit (from 2005) and Twitter (from 2006), the Internet has become an increasingly fer... Read More about Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources.

HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, S. D., Huynh, T. D., Ikuno, Y., Flann, J., Wu, F., Moreau, L., …Roberts, S. (2015). HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives. In AAMAS '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (533-541)

This paper proposes a novel disaster management system called HAC-ER that addresses some of the challenges faced by emergency responders by enabling humans and agents, using state-of-the-art algorithms, to collaboratively plan and carry out tasks in... Read More about HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives.

Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Luger, E., Urquhart, L., Rodden, T., & Golembewski, M. (2015). Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (457-466). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702142

© Copyright 2015 ACM. The regulatory climate is in a process of change. Design, having been implicated for some time, is now explicitly linked to law. This paper recognises the heightened role of designers in the regulation of ambient interactive tec... Read More about Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process.

Human–agent collaboration for disaster response (2015)
Journal Article
Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Reece, S., Roberts, S., …Jennings, N. R. (2016). Human–agent collaboration for disaster response. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 30(1), 82-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-015-9286-4

In the aftermath of major disasters, first responders are typically overwhelmed with large numbers of, spatially distributed, search and rescue tasks, each with their own requirements. Moreover, responders have to operate in highly uncertain and dyna... Read More about Human–agent collaboration for disaster response.

Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.

In this paper we argue for the position that responsible safeguards for privacy and ethical treatment of human data are of vital importance to retain the public confidence and trust that is necessary for the development and future success of internet... Read More about Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.

House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks (2015)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Tolmie, P., Mortier, R., Lodge, T., Brundell, P., & Pantidi, N. (2015). House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0771-6

We draw on ethnographic studies to understand the collaborative nature of network policies or rules in domestic settings. We outline the technical nature of network policy in enterprise domains and how this contrasts with the social or collaborative... Read More about House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks.

Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J., Reeves, S., Rodden, T., Reece, S., Ramchurn, S., & Jones, D. (2015). Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response.

Command and control environments ranging from transport control rooms to disaster response have long been of interest to HCI and CSCW as rich sites of interactive technology use embedded in work practice. Drawing on our engagement with disaster respo... Read More about Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response.