ICT for Consumers or Human Beings

Elizabeth Sillence; Antti Pirhonen

doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-499-8.ch016

ICT for Consumers or Human Beings

Elizabeth Sillence, Antti Pirhonen

Psychology Department

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Abstract

The large scale deployment of mobile applications inevitably impacts upon our culture as a whole and affects more intimately our daily lives. Not all of these effects are desirable. In a market economy, ethical issues are not the most important drivers in the development of technology. In this chapter, the authors ask whether the mobile human-computer interaction community could take an active role in discussing ethical issues. In so doing as a community we could focus our attention on developing technology for ‘human beings’ rather than fine tuning our emerging gadgets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Human-Computer Interaction and Innovation in Handheld, Mobile and Wearable Technologies
Editors	Joanna Lumsden
Place of Publication	Hershey, PA
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	260-267
Number of pages	406
ISBN (Print)	978-1609604998
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-499-8.ch016
Publication status	Published - Apr 2011

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