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Automated Debriefing: Interface for Large-Scale Research Ethics

Published: 30 October 2018 Publication History

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Debriefing is an essential research ethics procedure in non-consented research where participants are informed about their participation in research and provided with controls over their data privacy. This demonstration presents a novel system for conducting and studying debriefing in large-scale behavioral experiments online. We designed a debriefing system, with an accompanying evaluation study, which are both delivered as a web application. Participants engage with this system once data collection for an experiment has concluded. The key contributions of this project are 1) the design and implementation of the debriefing system for field experiments, and 2) an approach to empirically evaluating public perception of research procedures.

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Scott Desposato. 2014. Ethical Challenges and Some Solutions for Field Experiments. Retrieved April 29, 2018 from http://www.desposato.org/ethicsfieldexperiments.pdf.
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    CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
    October 2018
    518 pages
    ISBN:9781450360180
    DOI:10.1145/3272973
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    1. debriefing
    2. field experiments.
    3. interface design
    4. research ethics
    5. social media

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    • (2019)My Own Private NightlifeProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33592913:CSCW(1-34)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019

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