title: Some guidelines for the ethical development of ubiquitous computing.
abstract: At a time when both the landscape of everyday life and the choices available to us there are increasingly conditioned by ubiquitous information processing systems, it seems wise to articulate some general principles guiding their ethical design and deployment. I here enunciate five broad guidelines for the designers of such systems, including recommendations that they be devised in such a way as to default to harmlessness, be conservative of time, be conservative of face, be self-disclosing and be deniable. I conclude with some observations about the likelihood of any such principles winning usefully widespread voluntary adherence.
authors.affiliation: Studies and Observations, 343 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA. ag@studies-observations.com
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Greenfield
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D020407:Internet / Q000941:ethics*; D008838:Microcomputers / Q000941:ethics*