Host: Jerry
Participants: Kim, Nicole, Dean, Jill, Robin
The Center for the Ethics of Persuasive Technology (C4EPT.org) is being renamed The Truthiness Institute.
C4EPT held two conference calls in 2006. Interested parties, but not enough critical mass yet to get going.
How do you ID instances of truthiness when they are in the grey area?
Surveys?
Jill: Surveys might be problematic. Shift over time. Need not to lose sight of absolutes.
Nicole: when people are offered options, how are those options worked? Are people aware of what they get sent and how it is personalized? Disclosure of methods. Transparency of what you're signing up for.
Dean: More theoretical interest. What's the ethical framework we should have? How do we use it to evaluate Mobile Persuasion? Relationship of Persuasive Tech you use on yourself and advanced directives, like living wills. Interesting boundary cases.
Consequentialist ethical framework in BJ's class.
Nicole: whom do you sample? online folks will be biased in favor of tech (not afraid of online transactions). Offline folks, like her Mom, are reticent. Don't participate, also don't have their opinions registered.
Jill: PHR in Revolution Health (Personal Health Record). When you aggregate your info in one place, insurance companies could demand to see it. Preexisting conditions, mental health, etc would all be visible. Good reasons to aggregate, but dangers, too.
Jill: Literal example of mobile persuasion: FastPass gives her a monthly report which contains her time at each toll booth. She's waiting for the day when they deduce your speed, issue tickets.
