Fiesler, Zimmer, and Vitak received NSF funding from the Ethical & Responsible Research (ER2) directorate in 2024. Read more about their ongoing work to develop formal and informal curriculum and educational resources for students and professionals working in computing fields.

The research team has a long history of studying the attitudes and behaviors within user communities — the people whose content is being scraped and analyzed more and more often. Read more about what the team has found from talking with end-users.

In this thread of research, we explore the attitudes, practices, and needs of those conducting research with pervasive data. Read more about what researchers feel confident about, and what they need more guidance on.

Historically, the bulk of research ethics practices and regulations have been mediated through university-based IRBs. However, much pervasive computing research falls outside of formal university-based ethics infrastructures. Read more about the team’s work assessing and comparing how ethics regulators respond to this disjunction.