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ICT for Consumers or Human Beings: What’s the Difference?

ICT for Consumers or Human Beings: What’s the Difference?

Elizabeth Sillence, Antti Pirhonen
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781609604998|ISBN10: 1609604997|EISBN13: 9781609605001
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-499-8.ch016
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Sillence, Elizabeth, and Antti Pirhonen. "ICT for Consumers or Human Beings: What’s the Difference?." Human-Computer Interaction and Innovation in Handheld, Mobile and Wearable Technologies, edited by Joanna Lumsden, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 260-267. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-499-8.ch016

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Sillence, E. & Pirhonen, A. (2011). ICT for Consumers or Human Beings: What’s the Difference?. In J. Lumsden (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction and Innovation in Handheld, Mobile and Wearable Technologies (pp. 260-267). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-499-8.ch016

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Sillence, Elizabeth, and Antti Pirhonen. "ICT for Consumers or Human Beings: What’s the Difference?." In Human-Computer Interaction and Innovation in Handheld, Mobile and Wearable Technologies, edited by Joanna Lumsden, 260-267. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-499-8.ch016

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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.

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