Integrating ethics in design through the value-sensitive design approach

Cummings, M. L.

doi:10.1007/s11948-006-0065-0

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“…There is published work in this area: Cummings [21] describes a VSD case study (part of a proposed engineering curriculum) of the hypothetical development of a command and control supervisory interface for a military cruise missile. The conceptual analysis is built around the value of human welfare, which is already often seen in VSD work -but here drawing on different philosophical traditions, namely the theory of just war, and the principles of proportionality and of discrimination.…”

Section: Whose Values?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Next steps for value sensitive design

Borning

Müller

2012

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Questions of human values often arise in HCI research and practice. Such questions can be difficult to address well, and a principled approach can clarify issues of both theory and practice. One such approach is Value Sensitive Design (VSD), an established theory and method for addressing issues of values in a systematic and principled fashion in the design of information technology. In this essay, we suggest however that the theory and at times the presentation of VSD overclaims in a number of key respects, with the result of inhibiting its more widespread adoption and appropriation. We address these issues by suggesting four topics for next steps in the evolution of VSD: (1) tempering VSD's position on universal values; (2) contextualizing existing and future lists of values that are presented as heuristics for consideration; (3) strengthening the voice of the participants in publications describing VSD investigations; and (4) making clearer the voice of the researchers. We propose new or altered approaches for VSD that address these issues of theory, voice, and reportage.

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Section: Whose Values?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Next steps for value sensitive design

Borning

Müller

2012

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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172

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“…164). Others (Cummings, 2006) question the engineering optimization paradigm on fundamental questions of value.…”

Section: Methodological Reviewmentioning

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Game-Like Characteristic of Engineering Design

Oruç

Cunningham

2013

Infranomics

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Abstract. Engineering design is conventionally regarded as a mono actor optimization problem and modeled accordingly. Decision making, values and optimality are building blocks of conventional engineering design. However with the advent of decentralized decision making processes, various actors are more likely to be involved in decision making processes in engineering design. As a response in this paper we attempt to claim that engineering design is inherently multi actor and has game-like characteristics. Accordingly a research agenda is put forward.

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“…In addition, the VSD methodology has been acknowledged and employed by other researchers who have examined several issues from a VSD perceptive, including privacy design (Xu et al, 2008), the analysis of and designing for motivation in the context of Wikipedia (Kuznetsov, 2006), in semantic web applications , and some general discussions on ethics in design through VSD (Cummings, 2006;Manders-Huits and Van den Hoven, 2009). …”

Section: Vsd Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing Discourse Ethics to Value Sensitive Design: Pathways toward a Deliberative Future

Yetim¹

2011

THCI

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Ping Zhang was the accepting Senior Editor. This article was submitted on 5/27/2010 and accepted on 3/19/2011. It was with the authors 129 days for 1 revision. Value Sensitive Design (VSD) is a comprehensive framework for advancing a value-centered research and design agenda. It provides methods for producing and evaluating a design outcome by taking human values into account. Drawing on discourse ethics, this paper first critically analyzes the status quo in VSD and identifies some gaps. These mainly concern the lack of explicit methods for supporting a deliberative and legitimate process of decision making with respect to many concerns, including the identification of stakeholders, the legitimation of common design communication, the justification of trade-offs and/or a common regulation in case of competing or incommensurable values, as well as the deliberativeness of other design decisions such as the selection of design goals and means. In addition, this paper suggests ways to move VSD toward the standards of discourse ethics by drawing on the knowledge base of critical research in the Information Systems field. In particular, the suggestions concern the inclusion of a practical method for boundary critique and different types of discourses and principles as well as discourse support methods and tools for structuring participation in a way that allows participants to deal with the plurality of values, norms, goals and means deliberatively. Finally, this paper revisits a VSD case and explores the applicability of the ideas suggested.

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Integrating ethics in design through the value-sensitive design approach

Cited by 108 publications

References 15 publications

Next steps for value sensitive design

Next steps for value sensitive design

Game-Like Characteristic of Engineering Design

Bringing Discourse Ethics to Value Sensitive Design: Pathways toward a Deliberative Future

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