Now when i have some clear idea about the work that i will be doing for the next couple of months with my left time before getting graduated, I will be keeping this blog for my research based experience and findings based on the different evaluation.
It is always hard for me (and most of the others) to decide what exactly am going to do and specially complicated to understand what exactly what i want to do. For me one good place to start solving being in the situation is to convince myself to do something that is at least closely related to my perception about the work to be done. During this period, this will help me to regenerate the thoughts about what are the possibilities I have and my the skills that I lack during this period of my self assessment. Evaluating myself was another problem I face when experimenting with consent to settle somewhere so that I can start my real work. It might hit a point some time at the time-line that could actually help me to identify the actual goal or maybe other aspects of these topics.
To start with, the first thing that goes into my mind is my conscientiousness or responsibility in the direction of others. To make it clear, the word ‘others’ here mean anyone else except me (or sometimes even me)
Question: What are the different element of ethical considerations that I need to keep in mind when doing any part of my work that might relate to other?
There are different ways to learn about this matter, 3 elements presented by Brandford Et. all (2008) [1] can be potted as:
Vulnerable Participants: vulnerable participants are very young, old aged people and infirm (sick) ones that might not be aware of what exactly is going on with the work they were involved in.
Sometimes student feel oblidged to participate
who feel unable to refuse to participate
might feel upset or threatened by some aspects of study
How to address this? making it clear that the system in question is being assessed but not them
Informed consent: means that person agrees to take part knowing what they re into. It is important to ensure that all participants know the purpose of the study and what will be done with the data being collected during the study.
Data should be made anonymous (eg. use codes instead of names)
individual privacy and confidentiality must be respected
How to address this? Short information sheet can be prepared as permission form where participant point out that they are aware of what is expected and participating willingly and are free to leave at any time without any specified reason.
Privacy, confidentiality and maintaining trust:
offer participants to talk about the experimentation after they have finished
this will make participants feel valued and can be a source of informal feedback leading to better experiment design next time or new ideas
[1] Blandford A. Adams, A. Attfield, S Buchman …. (2008), ‘PRET A reporter: Evaluating digital libraries along and in context’, Information Processing and Management
