The Ethical Researcher's Checklist
summary
A practical checklist that centers three protections: user well‑being (identify harms, chart participant vulnerability, example: a usability video exposed HIV status when a calendar popup wasn’t cropped), user autonomy (granular, opt‑in consent, withdrawal and internal‑research mandatory‑reporting clauses), and data privacy and security (avoid session replay or redact fields—research found session replay scripts leak passwords—use five anonymization levels, prefer no PII, and prefer sketches over raw footage). Includes recruitment, compensation rules, and concrete mitigations for vulnerable groups.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to ethics in UX research
- 2:31Historical ethical violations in research
- 4:16Introducing the ethical checklist
- 5:19Principle one user well-being
- 9:11Minimizing risk for vulnerable groups
- 14:10Principle two user autonomy
- 18:06Principle three data privacy and security
- 20:09Summary and call to action
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