Sharon Lindberg

My background

I have a MSc in Business Administration, a B.A. in Philosophy, and 20+ years of work experience as a designer of mostly digital things. Want to know more about my earlier work? Visit me at LinkedIn.

The "so what" of my research

Recent years have seen an increased interest in ethically responsible design, e.g. questions surrounding surveillance and big data, dangers related to AI, negative impact of social media, and “dark patterns” in design. Frameworks, guidelines and a plethora of other initiatives have been proposed for handling these issues. However, fewer studies have enquired into how ethics is perceived and cultivated among designers themselves. This is why my PhD project is doing just that: exploring ethics in design practices from the point of view of design practitioners. The goal of the research is two-fold. First, to understand what “ethics” might mean to designers of tech. Second, to co-create viable ways to cultivate ethics in design.

Publications

• Doing Good Business? Design Leaders' Perspectives on Ethics in Design (2024)
  S Lindberg, C Rossitto, O Knutsson, P Karlström, S Männikkö Barbutiu
  Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, GROUP, Article 2 (January 2024), 22 pages.
• Cultivating ethics with professional designers (2023)
  S Lindberg, P Karlström, S Männikkö Barbutiu
  No 10 (2023): NORDES 2023: THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK, ISSN 1604-9705
• Teaching Tech Ethics in Practice – Situating Ethics in Social Relationships (2021)
  T Ceratto Pargman, S Lindberg
  Workshop position paper for Co-Designing Resources for Ethics Education in HCI at CHI'21
• Design Ethics in Practice – Points of Departure (2021)
  S Lindberg, P Karlström, S Männikkö Barbutiu
  Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Vol. 5, No. CSCW1, Article 130
• Cultivating Ethics – A Perspective from Practice (2020)
  S Lindberg, P Karlström, S Männikkö Barbutiu
  NordiCHI '20: Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society. Online/Tallin, Estonia
• The Levinas Game – Using Design Games to Explore the Intersection of Philosophy and HCI (2019)
  S Lindberg, P Karlström
  Workshop position paper for Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Exploring the Intersection of Philosophy and HCI at CHI'19, Glasgow, Scotland, UK