Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: What are the best ways for design teams attend to issues of power, inequity, trust and other ethical concerns as they arise in design? Literature on value-sensitive design (VSD) and technology ethics has advocated for a range of design methods that propose different roles and responsibility for ethics during technology development. This paper explores four provocations that imagine different roles and responsibilities for moral and ethical reasoning on design teams: participatory design (in which diverse stakeholders may represent their own values in the design process), values advocates (introducing experts to lead values discussions or conduct ethics interventions), embedding values discussions within design and encouraging ‘moral exemplars’ within design. Each of these posits different logistical arrangements as well as different levels of expertise in ethical practice. The paper uses examples from the VSD and computer ethics literatures as well as the authors' ethnographic work to explore the advantages, challenges and consequences of each approach.
Source: Interacting with Computers
DOI: 10.1093/iwc/iww002
Authors: Katie Shilton, Sara Anderson
Institution: University of Maryland, College Park
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,794
Awards: G1778545333, FIA: Collaborative Research: Named Data Networking (NDN), Ethics Education for Participatory Urban Sensing, INSPIRE Track 2: Public Health, Nanotechnology, and Mobility (PHeNoM), NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: From Intentional to Enacted Values in a Future Internet Architecture: Values in the Next Phase of Named Data Networking Research
OpenAlex ID: W2296123784