Mobile applications and online service providers track our virtual and physical behaviour more actively and with a broader scope than ever before. This has given rise to growing concerns about ethical personal data management. Even though regulation and awareness around data ethics are increasing, end-users are seldom engaged when defining and designing what a future with ethical personal data management should look like. We explore a participatory process that uses design futures, the Future workshop method and design fictions to envision ethical personal data management with end-users and designers. To engage participants effectively, we needed to bridge their differential expertise and make the abstract concepts of data and ethics tangible. By concretely presenting personal data management and control as fictitious entities called Data Daemons, we created a shared understanding of these abstract concepts, and empowered non-expert end-users and designers to become actively engaged in the design process.
翻译:移动应用程序和在线服务供应商比以往更加积极和广泛地跟踪我们的虚拟和物理行为。这引起了人们对道德个人数据管理的日益关切。尽管关于数据道德的监管和认识正在增加,但在界定和设计具有道德个人数据管理的未来时,最终用户很少参与其中。我们探索一个参与性进程,利用设计未来、未来讲习班方法和设计小说来设想与最终用户和设计者进行符合道德的个人数据管理。为了有效地与参与者接触,我们需要弥合他们不同的专门知识,使抽象的数据概念和道德概念变得有形化。通过将个人数据管理和控制作为被称为数据守护器的虚构实体,我们形成了对这些抽象概念的共同理解,并增强了非专家最终用户和设计者积极参与设计过程的能力。