Ethical issues with using Internet of Things devices in citizen science research: A scoping review

07/18/2020
by   James Scheibner, et al.
0

Our chapter presents a scoping review of published scientific studies or case studies of scientific studies that utilise both citizen scientists and Internet of Things devices. Specifically, we selected studies where the authors had included at least a short discussion of the ethical issues encountered during the research process. Having conducted a search of five databases (IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, and PubMed), we identified 631 potential results. Following abstract and title screening, and then full text eligibility assessment, we identified 34 published articles that matched our criteria. We then analysed the full text for these articles inductively and deductively, coding ethical issues into three main categories. These categories were autonomy and data privacy, data quality, and intellectual property. We also analysed the full text of these articles to see what strategies researchers took to resolve these ethical issues, as well as any legal implications raised. Following this analysis, our discussion provides recommendations for researchers who wish to integrate citizen scientists and Internet of Things devices into their research. First, all citizen science projects should integrate a data privacy protocol to protect the confidentiality of participants. Secondly, scientific researchers should consider any potential issues of data quality, including whether compromises might be required, before establishing a project. Finally, all intellectual property issues should be clarified both at the start of the project and during its lifecycle. Researchers should also consider any ethical issues that might flow from the use of commercially available Internet of Things devices for research.

READ FULL TEXT

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

research
06/15/2023

Web of Things and Trends in Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review

In the past few years, the Web of Things (WOT) became a beneficial game-...
research
10/22/2019

Achieving Ethical Algorithmic Behaviour in the Internet-of-Things: a Review

The Internet-of-Things is emerging as a vast inter-connected space of de...
research
06/16/2021

Benefits, Challenges and Contributors to Success for National eHealth Systems Implementation: A Scoping Review

Our scoping review aims to assess what legal, ethical, and socio-technic...
research
04/15/2021

Ethical Challenges in the Human-Robot Interaction Field

The aim of this extended abstract is to introduce five examples of ethic...
research
07/29/2019

Coercion, Consent, and Participation in Citizen Science

Throughout history, everyday people have contributed to science through ...
research
01/26/2022

Tracking on the Web, Mobile and the Internet-of-Things

`Tracking' is the collection of data about an individual's activity acro...
research
07/16/2018

Privacy Salience: Taxonomies and Research Opportunities

Privacy is a well-understood concept in the physical world, with us all ...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset