User-centric Regulation for the Domestic Internet of Things by Lachlan Urquhart of the University of Nottingham
The talk will take place on Friday 2 December 2016 at 2pm in the Neil MacCormick Room (9.01) of David Hume Tower.
There is a page on our website here: http://www.ipdg.law.ed.ac.uk/2016/11/27/fri-2nd-dec-2pm-user-centric-regulation-for-the-domestic-internet-of-things-lachlan-urquhart-university-of-nottingham/
And this is the abstract for the talk:
Increasingly, technology designers are being called upon to address regulatory challenges posed by emerging technologies. However, their role in regulation is not settled and needs to be situated both conceptually and practically. We present a multidisciplinary response through examining what the field of human computer interaction (HCI) can offer. We do this by presenting a number of conceptual, empirical and design led perspectives from the interface between IT law and HCI. We ground these within the case study of doing information privacy by design for the domestic internet of things. HCI focuses on how users interact with technologies in practice. In designing user experiences, HCI practice draws on a range of approaches and concepts to develop a rich picture of the social context of technology use. By reframing these to consider regulatory and ethical dimensions, we argue the role of technology designers in regulation can be better understood.