Ethics and mono-disciplinarity: positivism, informed consent and informed participation

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dc.contributor.authorHersh, Marion A.
dc.contributor.authorTucker, William David
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-14T11:54:07Z
dc.date.available2012-11-14T11:54:07Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThere are a number of pressures on researchers in academia and industry to behave unethically or compromise their ethical standards, for instance in order to obtain funding or publish frequently. In this paper a case study of Deaf telephony is used to discuss the pressures to unethical behaviour in terms of withholding information or misleading participants that can result from mono-disciplinary orthodoxies. The Deaf telephony system attempts to automate multiple aspects of relayed communication between Deaf and hearing users. The study is analysed in terms of consequentialist and deontological ethics, as well as multi-loop action learning. Discussion of a number of examples of bad practice is used to indicate both the compatibility of ethical behaviour and good scientific method and that ethical behaviour is a pre-requisite for obtaining meaningful results.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTelkom, Cisco, Siemens, THRIPen_US
dc.identifier.citationHersh, M. A. & Tucker, W. D. (2005). Ethics and mono-disciplinarity: positivism, informed consent and informed participation. In P. Zítek (ed.), 16th International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress, 16(1). Prague, Czech Republicen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-902661-75-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/466
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsCopyright Elsevier. This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is required.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3182/20050703-6-CZ-1902.02317
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectDisciplinary pressuresen_US
dc.subjectInformed consenten_US
dc.subjectPositivismen_US
dc.subjectUnethical behaviouren_US
dc.titleEthics and mono-disciplinarity: positivism, informed consent and informed participationen_US
dc.typeConference Proceedingsen_US

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