Planning research

Writing research plans
Research ethics

Readings
OUE Chs 3 and 4

Understanding Your Users, Catherine Courage and Kathy Baxter, Chapter 3 (bspace)

Rubin, Chapter 5 (bspace) Note: you only need to read from the beginning to the end of the first section on p. 87. The rest you can skim or skip.

Skim some or all

Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct 2002; see especially sections on Privacy and Confidentiality.

STC usability SIG on ethics especially the UPA Code of Professional Conduct (goes beyond working with users to usability work in general)

UC Berkeley Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects – especially the guidelines on informed consent (Sample forms from CPHS)