Technology design is a social and cultural practice (as well as a technical one). Thus, helping technologists design ethical systems requires more than creating technical ethical design tools; it also requires creating social and cultural infrastructures that can help support technologists to make ethical decisions.
Our lab works to imagine and create these new infrastructures which may include: new organizational practices, law and policy, supporting worker and community-led actions, or developing tools that consider the social and organizational contexts where technologies are developed.
We take an interdisciplinary approach to addressing these issues, though we most commonly draw on perspectives from design, science & technology studies (STS), critically-oriented human-computer interaction (HCI), and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW).
Our projects generally belong to at least one of three research areas:
- Studying the Work Required to Address Ethical Issues within Organizational Contexts
- Creating Alternate Ethics Infrastructures and Levers
- Studying User Resistance, Non-Use, and Alternative Use Practices
The lab is led by Richmond Wong, Assistant Professor in the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
For more information, please contact Professor Wong. If you’re interested in working with the lab as a PhD student, please take a look at our Guide to Working in the Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab first!
Support
Some research projects in the lab have been supported by the National Science Foundation, Georgia Tech Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center, Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology, and UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.