Understanding Adult Stakeholder Perspectives on the Ethics of Extended Reality Technologies with a Focus on Young Children and Children in Rural Areas

Juan Pablo Hourcade; Summer Schmuecker; Delaney Norris; Flannery Hope Currin

doi:10.1145/3628516.3655811

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Understanding Adult Stakeholder Perspectives on the Ethics of Extended Reality Technologies with a Focus on Young Children and Children in Rural Areas

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Understanding Adult Stakeholder Perspectives on the Ethics of Extended Reality Technologies with a Focus on Young Children and Children in Rural Areas

Juan Pablo Hourcade, Summer Schmuecker, Delaney Norris and Flannery Hope Currin

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, pp.455-468

ACM Conferences

IDC '24: Interaction Design and Children

06/17/2024

DOI: 10.1145/3628516.3655811

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As part of a larger initiative with the goal of developing ethical guidelines for conducting extended reality (XR) research with children, this paper presents the qualitative analysis of 24 sessions conducted with parents, teachers, medical professionals, and other adult stakeholders with a focus on young children and rural areas. The sessions included discussions of fears and hopes with respect to technologies and children based on prior literature, in-depth consideration of a broad range of potential use scenarios, explanations of how XR headsets work, and use of commercially available headsets. An inductive analysis of notes from sessions resulted in a data structure with the following aggregate dimensions: 1.) privacy and safety; 2.) managing content; 3.) developmental, physical, and behavioral impacts; 4.) broad concerns about emerging technologies; 5.) balancing XR and reality; and 6.) contextual considerations. We include details on each of these aggregate dimensions as well as a grounded model derived from them, providing examples of how these dimensions interact with each other to influence stakeholder perspectives on the ethics of specific uses of XR.

Human-centered computing -- Human computer interaction (HCI)

Social and professional topics -- User characteristics -- Age -- Children

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Title: Subtitle: Understanding Adult Stakeholder Perspectives on the Ethics of Extended Reality Technologies with a Focus on Young Children and Children in Rural Areas
Creators: Juan Pablo Hourcade - University of Iowa
Summer Schmuecker - University of Iowa
Delaney Norris - The University of Iowa, United States
Flannery Hope Currin - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, pp.455-468
Conference: IDC '24: Interaction Design and Children
Series: ACM Conferences
DOI: 10.1145/3628516.3655811
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Language: English
Date published: 06/17/2024
Academic Unit: Nursing; Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984648155702771

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