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Chapter 7, Human and Ethical Issues

General sources on human and ethical issues
Human-Computer Interaction and human factors
Human behavior, individual differences, and training
Health and safety
Disability and assistive technology
Ecology of work
Dependence on people for success
Privacy
Intellectual Property and Law

General sources on human and ethical issues
ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS): This site contains hundreds of links related to ethics, privacy, equity, organizational informatics, health and safety, professional certifications, teaching standards, environmental, and other issues pertaining to the social implications of computers.
Center For Democracy and Technology: The CDT's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR): CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others interested in the impact of computer technology on society. As technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): The EFF is a civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to online resources and information
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology: This organizations looks at environmental, health and safety implications of technology; engineering ethics and professional responsibility; history of electrotechnology; technical expertise and public policy; peace technology; and social issues related to energy, information technology and telecommunications
Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics: This site has an exhaustive listing of resources including: Ethics Centers, Course Syllabii, Professional Societies, Codes of Ethics, Conferences, Books & Reports, Newsletters & Journals, On-line Articles, and Mailing Lists & Newsgroups
Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute: The institute seeks to promote the development of ethical and professional practices that address the impacts of software engineering and related technologies on society. The site contains various organizations code of ethics, links and a comprehensive list of ethics courses throughout the US.
Ethics Resources: Links provided by Paula Edmiston
Computer Ethics - Cyberethics from ISWorld Net: Links and resources provided by David Vance and Arun Rai
Center for Computing and Social Responsibility: This web site provides many links and contains articles from conferences such as Ethicomp 99
Human-Computer Interaction and human factors
Human-Computer Interaction Sites: This broad ranging site representing a Special Interest Group (SIG) within the ACM covers many aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI) research and links to an extensive HCI bibliography.
A collection of information related to Human-Computer Interaction.: This site contains links to collections of sites.
A Business Researchers Interests: Human-Computer Interaction: This site at Brint contains a thorough listing of HCI information.
The HCI Bibliography: This online bibliography links to summaries of a large number of conference proceedings.
Computer stupidities: This is a collection of "stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users." On the periphery of HCI issues, one might ask how many of these stories are about problems with technology rather than people.
Usable Web: This site contains hundreds of links related to making web applications more useable.
Bad Human Factors Designs: This site provides a scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.
Usability Links: This site contains many links related to human-computer interaction and usability.
Human behavior, individual differences, and training
Human Behavior and the Web: This is CIO magazine's list of resources on collaboration, creativity, "cyber behavior," ethics, general psychology links, human computer interface, human learning, and "soft skills."
Keirsey temperament theory: This web site presents ideas about a common theory of individual temperament and even provides an online test that can help understand some aspects of your own temperment. Individual differences in this area play an important role in the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and in determining what types of jobs are satisfying.
Center For LifeLong Learning and Design: This site contains a glossary of terms related to life long learning
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
Health and safety
Carpal tunnel syndrome: This site contains information about carpal tunnel syndrome and links to sites related to other ergonomics issues.
Disability and assistive technology
The Archimedes project: Stanford University's Project Archimedes promotes equal access to information for individuals with disabilities by influencing the early design stages of tomorrow's computer-based technology. This site provides useful disability-related links
Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI): EASI supports the education community with information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities. Its web site contains useful links.
Trace Research & Development Center: This site provides useful articles and disability related links.
Ecology of work
Balancing Work and Family: This Business Week article looks at one of the key issues that business professionals and their employees need to deal with.
International Workplace Studies Program at Cornell: This site summarizes some of the issues related to the ecology of new ways of working such as telecommuting, non-territorial offices, hoteling, and new forms of collaboration.
Human Centered Systems in the Perspective of Organizational and Social Informatics: This 1997 working paper by Rob Kling and Leigh Star discusses questions such as criteria for viewing computer systems as " human centered" and problems, paradoxes, and overlooked social realities in the use of computerized systems.
Dependence on people for success
Foundation for Enterprise Development: This site provides links to a number of articles related to compensation strategies, employee morale, empowerment
Privacy
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC): EPIC is a public interest research center that focuses on emerging civil liberties issues, privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
Privacy International: Privacy International is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. Some articles here mention privacy differences between countries.
Federal Trade Commission's privacy site: The Federal Trade Commission's privacy site tries to educate consumers about the importance of personal information privacy.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: This site provides information on a variety of informational privacy issues, as well as practical tips on safeguarding personal privacy, such as a section providing identity theft resources.
The Privacy Forum: The PRIVACY Forum includes a moderated digest for the discussion and analysis of issues relating to personal and collective privacy.
Platform for Privacy Preferences: The Platform for Privacy Preferences links to resources about privacy, preference expression and the collection of Web usage data on the Web.
Elements of Effective Self-Regulation for Protection of Privacy: This page lists the Clinton Administration's Principles of Fair Information Practices and Enforcement
A Stalking We Go!: This site promotes privacy by identifying some of the personal information that is readily available, such as telephone numbers. It also lists the Social Security Numbers of 17 of the 50 richest people in the United States. It obtained those Social Security numbers from publicly available government documents.
Internet Privacy Coalition: The Internet Privacy Coalition promotes privacy and security on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography.
Child Care: This article focuses on on-line privacy with respect to gathering information on children and the posting of disclosure/policy issues.
Intellectual Property and Law
IBM Patent Server: This site provides access to patents for the last 27 years.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Database
KuesterLaw - The Technology Law Resource: This site is a comprehensive resource for patent, copyright, and trademark law.
Intellectual Property: Copyrights, Trademarks & Patents: This site at Brint contains an extensive listing of articles, papers and other resources on Intellectual Property.
The CyberLaw Encyclopedia: This site provides links related to computer-related contracts, intellectual property law, privacy law, rules of evidence, Internet domain
The Franklin Pierce Law Center intellectual property mall: Links to a unique collection of intellectual property resources served up by the Franklin Pierce Law Center and others on the Internet. It is intended to offer "one stop shopping" for intellectual property professionals in academia, business and science, as well as for inventors and entrepreneurs.
Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal: The Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal (TIPLJ) features articles focusing on substantive legal issues and recent developments in intellectual property law.
Intellectual Property Center: Maintained by Law Journal Extra, this site emaphsizes news related to intellectual property.
Nolo.com - Self-Help Law Center: This site from a leading provider of self-help books about legal topics includes a legal encyclopedia and guidance about doing legal research on the Internet.
IBM Intellectual Property Network: The IBM Intellectual Property Network lets you search, retrieve and study nearly four million patent and patent application documents.

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