Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXV

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2. Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Unclear Question: Who Owns Patient Information?

      • Jani Koskinen, Kai K. Kimppa

      Pages 3-13

   3. Ethical Gathering of Exercise Metrics from Elderly: Case Jumppatikku

      • Olli I. Heimo, Tapani N. Liukkonen, Miika Oja-Nisula, Julius Rajala, Anne Paavolainen, Kai K. Kimppa et al.

      Pages 14-24

   4. Assistive Technology Devices for the Oldest-Old: Maintaining Independence for the Fourth Age

      • Gillian Harvie, Kenneth Eustace, Oliver K. Burmeister

      Pages 25-33

   5. Safety-Enhancing Locating Wearables on Passenger Ships: Privacy and Security Perceptions by the Elderly

      • Sonja Th. Kwee-Meier, Eugen Altendorf, Alexander Mertens, Christopher M. Schlick

      Pages 34-48

   6. Balancing Act or Compromise? A Case Study Highlighting the Challenges of Trialling IT Services with the Elderly

      • Sue Hessey, Hazel Lacohee, Rob Collingridge

      Pages 49-60

   7. Skeuomorphic Reassurance: Personhood and Dementia

      • David Kreps, Oliver K. Burmeister, Jessica Blaynee

      Pages 61-71

   8. Ethical and Legal Issues Involved in the Pro-active Collection of Personal Information with the Aim of Reducing Online Disclosure

      • Johnny Botha, Mariki Eloff, Marthie Grobler

      Pages 72-85

   9. A Comparative Legal Study on Data Breaches in Japan, the U.S., and the U.K.

      • Kaori Ishii, Taro Komukai

      Pages 86-105

   10. Ethics and Professional Intimacy Within the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Industry

       • Sophie Iredale, Aleksej Heinze

       Pages 106-115

   11. A Participatory Design Program for Making Ethical Choices in Client Vendor Relations in ISD

       • Tero Vartiainen, Olli I. Heimo, Kai K. Kimppa

       Pages 116-129

   12. Narrative Ethics of Personalisation Technologies

       • Wessel Reijers, Bert Gordijn, Declan O’Sullivan

       Pages 130-140

3. Communications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. “Break the Ice”: The Use of Technology to Initiate Communication in Public Spaces

      • Matjaž Kljun, Klen Čopič Pucihar

      Pages 143-149

   3. Enabling Socio-Economic Activities: Opening Global Markets for the Marginalized Through Secure ICT Use

      • Jackie Phahlamohlaka, David Kepaletwe, Vusi Ndala, Lebogang Phahlamohlaka

      Pages 150-165

   4. Adoption of Social Media for the Banking Sector in Sri Lanka

      • Parakum Pathirana, Aye Aye Khin

      Pages 166-177

   5. Visualising Actor Network for Cooperative Systems in Marine Technology

      • Yushan Pan, Sisse Finken

      Pages 178-190

   6. “To Listen, Share, and to Be Relevant” - Learning Netiquette by Reflective Practice

      • Halvdan Haugsbakken

      Pages 191-203

   7. The Embodiment of Relationships of Adult Facebookers

      • Myrto Pirli, Sisse Finken, Christina Mörtberg

      Pages 204-214

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC12 2016, held in Salford, UK, in September 2016.


The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers deal with the constantly evolving intimate relationship between humans and technology. They focus on three main themes: ethics, communications, and futures.

• augmented reality
• communication
• elderly
• computer ethics
• health care information systems
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• information systems
• Internet
• mobile computing
• mobile devices
• security
• social media
• social networks
• trust
• user interfaces
• user privacy
• virtual reality

• University of Salford , Salford, United Kingdom

  David Kreps, Gordon Fletcher, Marie Griffiths

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