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  1. Ethics & AI cases

    Consent, power and ongoing participation

    UKRI · Economic and Social Research Council · Research ethics guidance · Living guidance · checked 17 October 2026

    Informed participation involves understandable information, a genuine choice and continuing attention to consent. ESRC discusses coercion, incentives, withdrawal, confidentiality and alternatives to signed forms.

  2. Articles

    Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations

    Nature Communications · 7 May 2024 · Background reading

    The researchers identify contextual variation and combinations within sperm-whale click sequences, or codas. The findings concern the organisation of signals, rather than a translation of what whales are saying.

  3. Ethics & AI cases

    Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites

    Mathur et al. · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · Peer-reviewed empirical research · November 2019 · background reading

    Analysis of roughly 53,000 product pages across 11,000 shopping websites identified 1,818 dark-pattern instances. The authors organised the findings into a taxonomy of design practices and potential harms.

  4. Ethics & AI cases

    Data Protection Essentials

    ICO · Free regulator training · Current programme · checked 17 October 2026

    Self-paced training and self-assessment for small organisations and sole traders. A useful foundation for handling personal information in a studio, consultancy or small research team. The learning platform requires an account.

  5. Ethics & AI cases

    Data protection impact assessments

    ICO · Regulator guidance · Living guidance · checked 17 October 2026

    A DPIA examines risks to people arising from processing personal data. It is required where processing is likely to result in high risk, and can inform design decisions before a system or study starts.

  6. Ethics & AI cases

    Data protection principles: training videos

    ICO · Regulator learning resource · Background resource · page update 19 May 2023

    Three modules introduce lawful processing; purpose, minimisation, accuracy and retention; and security, accountability and governance.

  7. UX Sectors

    Digital & Fine Arts

    Sector / context of practice

    Explore how people create, encounter and interpret art. Aesthetic experience, emotion, reflection and creative agency can be design aims in their own right.

  8. UX Sectors

    Education & learning

    Sector / context of practice

    Support students, educators and administrators across learning activities and the services around them.

  9. Ethics & AI cases

    False citations: responsibility for checking AI-assisted work

    High Court of England and Wales · Ayinde / Al-Haroun judgment · Published court judgment · 6 June 2025 · historical case

    The Al-Haroun part of this joint judgment concerns fictitious authorities and unverified client research. The client said the material came from AI tools, search engines and online sources. The court emphasised the lawyer’s responsibility to verify it.

  10. People

    Fei-Fei Li

    Researcher · United States

    Stanford HAI lists Li as its founding director and senior fellow, Sequoia Professor of Computer Science, and an advisory council co-chair. Her work connects visual intelligence with embodied AI; she is a co-author of the BEHAVIOR paper in this collection.

  11. UX Sectors

    Games & interactive entertainment

    Sector / context of practice

    Help players learn controls, understand feedback and participate in an experience without removing its intended challenge.

  12. UX Sectors

    Government & public services

    Sector / context of practice

    Make services understandable and usable for people who may have little choice about using them.

  13. UX Sectors

    Healthcare & care services

    Sector / context of practice

    Help patients, carers and professionals understand information and navigate care across digital and physical services.

  14. Learning & guides

    Human oversight

    Common terms · AI

    Arrangements that give people responsibility and practical means to understand, review and intervene in an AI system’s use.

  15. Learning & guides

    IEEE Xplore

    Mixed: open access and subscription content

    Useful for robotics, wearables, interfaces and engineering research. Search its journal and conference literature when the experience depends on a technical system.

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