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Re-Shape: A Method To Teach Data Ethics For Data Science Education, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Amanda Meng, Cody O'Donnell, Charlette Lou, Edwin Zhao, Bianca Dankwa, Andrew Hostetler

Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Data has become central to the technologies and services that human-computer interaction (HCI) designers make, and the ethical use of data in and through these technologies should be given critical attention throughout the design process. However, there is little research on ethics education in computer science that explicitly addresses data ethics. We present and analyze Re-Shape, a method to teach students about the ethical implications of data collection and use. Re-Shape, as part of an educational environment, builds upon the idea of cultivating care and allows students to collect, process, and visualizetheir physical movement data in ways that support critical …