Abstract
Mobile workers experience the social-technical gap when moral dilemmas occur on communication platforms, and technology cannot adapt to social contexts on ethical matters. On messaging applications, bots are non-human team members and/or assistants that can aid mobile workers manage ethical challenges. We present excerpts from qualitative interviews with mobile workers that illuminate examples of moral challenges across communication channels. We then discuss how bots may be helpful intermediaries on these channels. Bots bridge the gap between mobile workers’ need for moral support and the communication medium’s incapability of having an intentionally moral stance.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 28 August - 1 September 2017, Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Publisher | European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) |
| Pages | 35-54 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 2510-2591 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Event | 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2017) - Sheffield, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Aug 2017 → 1 Sept 2017 Conference number: 15 https://ecscw2017.org.uk/ |
Publication series
| Name | Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies |
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| Number | 2 |
| Volume | 1 |
Conference
| Conference | 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2017) |
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| Abbreviated title | ECSCW 2017 |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Sheffield |
| Period | 28/08/17 → 1/09/17 |
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Keywords
- chatbots
- bots
- mobile workers
- social-technical gap
- moral conflicts