Ethics: What is the Research Scenario in Brazilian Symposium IHC?

• Luiz Paulo Carvalho UFRJ
• José Antonio Suzano UFRJ
• Roberto Pereira UFPR
• Flávia Maria Santoro UERJ
• Jonice Oliveira UFRJ

Abstract

Human Values, the fourth challenge listed in the Grand Research Challenges in Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil (GranDIHC-BR), between 2012 and 2022, presents aspects of Ethics alongside Privacy and Post-death Digital Legacy. The field of Ethics analyses practices, their principles, customs, and habits. Since computational techniques are not neutral and, to a large extent, they are embargoed from technological determinisms, ethical analysis and evaluation are necessary to design computational solutions and theoretical or conceptual research. Eight years after the publication of the GranDIHC-BR, this work aims to understand how researchers have addressed the ethical aspects by analyzing the publications of the IHC-BR: the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the leading conference dedicated to HCI in Brazil. Thus, we conducted a Systematic Literature Review guided by the main research question: how does ethics permeate research published between 2006 and 2020? As a result, although less than 5% of the papers discussed ethical content, we observed a significant growth in ethical aspects over the years, both associated with the epistemology of research and its application.

Keywords: Ethics, HCI, GranDIHC-BR, Systematic Literature Review