Value  Sensi+ve  Design    Part  2    

Jeroen  van  den  Hoven  

Langdon  Winner  

“Do Artifacts have Politics?”

Robert  Moses  (1888-­‐1981)  

Science  and  Technology  Studies  (STS  research)  in  the  eigh+es    

•  New York example not an exception

•  Numerous case studies showing social and political biases could be inscribed in technical artifacts, systems and infrastructures

•  Check out studies Geoff Bowker, Susan Leigh Barrr or Lucy Suchman

Eigh+es:  specialized  areas  of  design  and  engineering  start  to  use  VSD    

IT privacy Improving safety

Winograd:  ‘founder  IT  and  VSD’    

Baty  Friedman:  social  and  moral  dimension  of  design  

VSD:  incorpora+ng  human  and  moral  values  into  design  of  technology  VSD:    •  Primarily  concerned  with  values  that  center    on  human  wellbeing,  

human  dignity,  jus<ce,  welfare,  and  human  rights  •  Advance  human  values;  a  way  of  doing  ethics  that  aims  at  making  

moral  values  part  of  technological  design,  research  and  development  

•  Connects  the  people  who  design  systems  and  interfaces  with  the  people  who  think  about  and  understand  the  values  of  the  stakeholders  who  are  affected  by  the  systems.  

VSD  defini+ons  

•  Friedman:    Ul<mately,  VSD  requires  that  we  broaden  the  goals  and  criteria  for  judging  the  quality  of  technological  systems  to  include  those  that  advance  human  values.”      

•  van  den  Hoven:    A  way  of  doing  ethics  that  aims  at  making  moral  values  part  of  technological  design,  research  and  development”.    

 

VSD  methodological  structure    

•  Integra<ve  and  itera<ve  methodology    •  Conceptual,  empirical,  and  technical  inves<ga<ons        

VSD  methodological  structure    

itera<vely,  mutually  informing  and  being  informed      

Technical  

Conceptual  

Empirical    

VSD    versus    RI        

•  Values and moral concerns of all concerned need to be articulated when they can still make a difference to design

•  They need to be formulated in such a way that they can inform the design

•  Designs and artifacts need to be evaluated in terms of the values and moral concerns.

Value  Sensi+ve  Design    versus    Responsible  Innova+on:        

VSD is relevant to all innovation and design of new technology and technological artifacts

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