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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Getting Connected

Antti PirhonenElizabeth Sillence

subject

Human-Computer InteractionEthical issuesManagement scienceSoftware deploymentbusiness.industryG400Scale (social sciences)Internet privacyBusiness

description

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 article, we ask whether the mobile human-computer interaction community could take an active role in discussing ethical issues. In so doing we could focus our attention on developing technology for ‘human beings’ rather than fine tuning our emerging gadgets.

https://doi.org/10.4018/jmhci.2009070102