Watching ourselves watching: ethical issues in ethnographic action research

Authors:
Ian MacColl;Roslyn Cooper;Markus Rittenbruch;Stephen Viller
Affiliations:
The University of Queensland;The University of Queensland;The University of Queensland;The University of Queensland
Venue:
OZCHI '05 Proceedings of the 17th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Citizens Online: Considerations for Today and the Future
Year:
2005

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Abstract

In this paper we explore some of the ethical issues associated with conducting Ethnographic Action Research (Tacchi, 2004; Tacchi et al., 2003) for understanding and facilitating distributed collaboration. Ethnography and action research are increasingly popular qualitative approaches to researching computer-supported collaboration and we are applying them together in a project within a distributed research centre. We identify ethical principles applied to the conduct of research in Australia and we briefly describe a number of ethical problems that arise due to the nature of Ethnographic Action Research.