15th Human Choice and Computers Conference: Human Choice and Digital by Default: Autonomy vs Digital Determination

Choice is a wonderful thing to have, and in a booming market of Internet-connected devices, not to mention the millions of apps and programmes that service them, there might appear to be a cornucopia of choices. But if it was that simple, why the need for a conference about Human Choice and Computers? Perhaps the choices are not as widespread as they seem, or perhaps darker forces mean that what goes for choice is actually an illusion. The first choice is whether to use a computer or not. That seems simple enough, but it is increasingly the case that if you dont have a computer, and an internet connected one at that, it is very hard to survive in the developed economies of the world.The papers accepted for this conference fell broadly into two categories: those which dealt with the more ethical side of the dilemma of choice in contemporary society, and those which dealt more with the legal side.