Publication Type

Conference Paper

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

4-2020

Abstract

How much is sufficient and how should one teach ethics in an Interaction Design curriculum in undergraduate computing program has been a point of dilemma for many HCI educators. We conducted a preliminary study using a mixed method to gather perception on ethics in our interaction design courses at two of the leading Singapore Universities. We answer three research questions specific to an undergraduate HCI course: Is there a need for ethics? Is there sufficient ethics coverage? and how to teach ethics? We surveyed 140 students and interviewed six teachers in two Singapore Universities. Our findings suggest that 92% of students and 100% of teachers see a need for ethics in design courses but more students see it as a need in general computer science or undergraduate education. We find that there is no lack of ethics coverage in our courses. Most participants prefer ethics to be covered in a use case to be discussed in class instead of a lecture or questions based on research articles.

Keywords

Interaction Design, Teaching ethics

Discipline

Computer Engineering | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2nd Annual Symposium on HCI Education A (Virtual) CHI 2020 Symposium, Honolulu, USA, 2020 April 25–30

Publisher

AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)

City or Country

Hawaii, USA

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