Carew, Peter J. and Stapleton, Larry and Byrne, Gabriel J. (2008) Implications of an Ethic of Privacy for Human-Centred Systems Engineering. AI & Society, 22 (3). pp. 385-403. ISSN 0951-5666
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Abstract
Privacy remains an intractable ethical issue for the information society. Given its complicity, there is a moral obligation to redress privacy issues in systems engineering practice itself. This paper investigates the role the concept of privacy plays in contemporary systems engineering practice. Ontologically a nominalist human concept, privacy is considered from an appropriate engineering perspective: human-centred design. Two human-centred design standards are selected as exemplars of best practice, and are analysed using an existing multi-dimensional privacy model. The findings indicate that the human-centred standards are currently inadequate in dealing with privacy issues. Some implications for future practice are subsequently highlighted.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Privacy, human-centred design, best practice, Q methodology, standards, systems engineering. |
| Departments or Groups: | Centre for INformation SYstems and TEchno-culture |
| Divisions: | School of Science > Department of Computing, Maths and Physics |
| Depositing User: | Peter Carew |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2017 15:25 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jan 2018 12:26 |
| URI: | https://repository.wit.ie/id/eprint/3224 |
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