Resources

isITethical? is based on collaborative research with practitioners in disaster risk management and IT development:

  • Collaborations with PSCE, BAPCO, Airbus, Saab, CNet Svenska, CloudSigma,
  • 10+ EUFP7 H2020 projects 35+ Co-design Workshops
  • An interdisciplinary team of researchers from social science, law, and design have carried out 100+ interviews 70+ days of observations
  • Review of 1000+ disaster reports and other documents

Key Findings:  Ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) are contextual, neither ‘in’ the technology nor their use but distributed, ‘solutions’ are socio-technical, require reflexivity.

The publications below provide results and details. 

Büscher, M., Escalante, L.M, Alter, H., Easton, C., Kerasidou, X. (2018) The isITethical? Exchange: Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in 5G and Beyond.European Conference on Networks and Communications, EUCNC2018, 18-21 June 2018, Ljubljana. Available here.

Büscher, M., Escalante, L.M, Alter, H., Easton, C., Kerasidou, X. (2018) isITethical? Responsible Research and Innovation for Disaster Risk Management.In Boersma, K. and Tomaszewski, B. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17thISCRAM Conference, Rochester, NY, USA, May 2018. Available here.

Büscher, M., Kerasidou, X., Petersen, K. and R. Oliphant (2017). Networked Urbanism and Disaster, in Freudendal-Petersen, M. and Kesselring, S. (Eds). Networked Urban Mobilities. Springer.

Easton, Catherine (2017) Analysing the role of privacy impact assessments in technological development for crisis management. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis ManagementVol. 25, Issue 1, pp.7-14.

Escalante, M. Lujan, and Christopher Boyko (2017). Numbers that Matter: Wearables, Wellbeing and Open Data, Wii: Journal of Mobile MediaVol. 11, Issue 1, online.

Petersen, K., Büscher, M., & Easton, C. (2017). On anonymity in disasters: Socio-technical practices in emergency management. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17(2), 307–326. Available here.

Rizza, C., Büscher, M. and Watson, H. (2017) Working with Data: Ethical Legal and Social Considerations Surrounding the Use of Crisis Data and Information Sharing During a Crisis. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management25(1):2-6. Introduction to Special Issue. Available here.

Boden, A., Al-Akkad, A., Liegl, M., Büscher, M., Stein, M., Randall, D. Wulf, V. (2016) Managing Visibility and Validity of Distress Calls with an Ad-Hoc SOS System. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)23(6):38-48. Preprint available here.

Kerasidou, Xaroula, Monika Büscher, Michael Liegl, and Rachel Oliphant (2016). Emergency ethics, law, policy & IT innovation in crises, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management(IJISCRAM), Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2016 pp.1-24. Manuscript available here.

Liegl, Michael, Alexander Boden, Monika Büscher, Rachel Oliphant, and Xaraoula Kerasidou (2016). Designing for Ethical Innovation: A Case Study on ELSI Co-Design in Emergency. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Vol. 95, 2016 pp. 80-95. Manuscript available here.

Pottebaum, J., Kuhnert, M., Schäfer, C., Behnke, D., Büscher, M., Petersen, K. and C. Wietfeld (2016). Common Information Space for Collaborative Emergency Management. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security 2016, Boston. 

Büscher, M., Becklake, S., Easton, C., Kerasidou, X., Oliphant, R., Petersen, K., Jasmontaite, L., Paterour, O.  (2016). ELSI Guidelines for Networked Collaboration and Information Exchange in PPDR and Risk Governance. In ISCRAM Proceedings 2016, 22-26.05.2016. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Horn, G., Eliassen, F., Amir, T., Venticinque, S., Di Martino, B., Büscher, M. & Wood, L. (2016) An architecture for using commodity devices and smart phones in health systems. Computers and Communication (ISCC), 2016 IEEE Symposium on.IEEE, p. 255-260.

Petersen, K., Oliphant, R., Büscher, M. (2016). Experimenting with Ethical Impact Assessment. In ISCRAM 2016 Proceedings, 22-26.05.2016. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Petersen, K. and Büscher, M. (2015). Technology in Disaster Response and Management: Narratives of Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues. Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, (Eds.): Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

Easton, C. and Büscher, M. (2015). The role of the privacy impact assessment in IT Innovation in Crises: An Example. Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, (Eds.): Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

Petersen, K., Büscher, M. Kuhnert, M., Schneider, S., Pottebaum, J. (2015). Designing with Users: Co-Design for Innovation in Emergency Technologies. In: Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, (Eds.): Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

Kerasidou, X., Büscher, M. & Liegl, M. (2015) Don’t Drone? Negotiating Ethics of RPAS in Emergency Response. In: Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, (Eds.): Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

Liegl, M., Oliphant R. & Büscher, M. (2015). Ethically Aware IT Design for Emergency Response: From Co-Design to ELSI Co-Design. In: Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, Hrsg.: Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

Perng, S-Y. & Büscher, M. (2015) Uncertainty and Transparency: Augmenting Modelling and Prediction for Crisis Response. In: Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, Hrsg.: Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

Valetto, G., Bucchiarone, A., Geihs, K., Büscher, M., Petersen, K. G., Nowak, A., Rychwalska, A., Pitt, J., Shalhoub, J., Rossi, F., Silingardi, P. & Bernardeschi, P. (2015). All together now: collective intelligence for computer-supported collective action. 9th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops.IEEE, p. 13-18.

Kuhnert, M., Wietfeld, C., Paterour, O., Georgiev, A., Petersen, K.,Büscher, M. & Pottebaum, J.(2015). Next generation, secure cloud-based pan-European information system for enhanced disaster awareness.In Palen, L., Büscher, M., Comes, T. & Hughes, A. (eds.). Proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. 

Büscher, Monika, Sung-Yueh Perng, and Michael Liegl (2014) Privacy, Security, Liberty: ICT in Crises.International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) Vol. 6. Issue 4, 2014 pp.72-92. Preprint version available here.

Büscher, M., Kuhnert, M., Pottebaum, J., Ahlsén, M., Easton, C., Van Veelen, B., Wietfeld, C. (2014). Cloud Ethics for Disaster Response. ELSI Track, Proceedings of the ISCRAM Conference 2014, 289-293. 

Al-Akkad, A., L. Ramirez, S. Denef, A. Boden, L. Wood, M. Buscher and A. Zimmermann (2013) Reconstructing normality: The use of infrastructure leftovers in crisis situations as inspiration for the design of resilient technology. Proceedings of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI'13), 25-29 November, Adelaiade, Australia. ACM. Preprint available here.

Büscher, M., Perng, S., Wood, L. (2013) Privacy, Security, Liberty: Informing the Design of Emergency Management Systems. In: Comes, T., Fiedrich, F., Fortier, S., Geldermann, F. and Yang, L. (Eds) Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference – Baden-Baden, Germany, May 2013, pp. 401-410.

Büscher, M., Bylund, M., Ramirez, L., Sanches, P., Wood, L. (2013) A New Manhattan Project? Interoperability and Ethics in Emergency Response Systems of Systems. In: Comes, T., Fiedrich, F., Fortier, S., Geldermann, F. and Yang, L. (Eds) Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference – Baden-Baden, Germany, May 2013, pp. 426-431.