Organizers

Jessica Pater is a Research Scientist and Manager of the Health Services and Informatics group at Parkview Research Center. Her research examines how mobile and social technologies influence mental health and how technology use of patients connects to clinical practice. She was recently selected to serve on the ACM SIGCHI research ethics committee. She has helped organize various workshops focusing on ethics and research with vulnerable populations for CSCW, GROUP, and ICWSM.

Alicia Nobles is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego. She holds a PhD in Systems and Information Engineering. Her research examines how people seek information and support online for stigmatized health issues and uses these insights to build and deploy responsive public health resources. She lectures on social media research ethics in public health.

Sarah Gilbert is a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Maryland College Park on the PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics project. She holds a PhD in Library and Information Studies. She studies policies and practices that make online communities healthier, including topics like what influences participation, how people learn in online communities, and how volunteer moderators’ labor impacts community governance.

Michael Zimmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University. He is a privacy and internet ethics scholar, whose work focuses on digital privacy, the ethical dimensions of social media & internet technologies, and internet research ethics. Dr. Zimmer is a co-chair of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Ethics Working Group, and a principal investigator in the PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics project.

Casey Fiesler is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds both a law degree and a PhD in human-centered computing, and her research focuses largely on forms of governance online, including social norms, law, and ethics. She has organized a series of research ethics workshops at conferences including CSCW, GROUP, and ICWSM. She is a member of the ACM SIGCHI research ethics committee