Workshop on Value-Sensitive Design: Cultivating Research and Community

近年来，各国日益认识到，信息技术的快速发展和部署可能以矛盾和/或意外的方式改变社会。人们普遍认为，需要进行更多的研究，以确定，理解，预测和解决这些变化的范围和轨迹。一个新的和有希望的方法是更好地理解信息技术的设计如何与社会成果联系起来。而不是假设信息技术的设计是一个简单的工程壮举，即价值中立的系统规范的生产，然后-给予足够的时间，金钱和熟练的劳动力-在一个特定的工件实现，设计过程更好地理解为一个不同的利益相关者可以有冲突的目标和优先级和权衡不断平衡。此外，设计人员通常对用户以及他们将如何使用特定工件有隐含的（有时是不正确的）假设。因此，各种社会价值观可以体现在人工制品中，从而产生预期和非预期的后果。为了开始了解这在实践中是如何工作的，以及IT设计人员如何对他们在促进某些结果方面的作用更加敏感，需要产生更多的兴趣来进行这种研究。这个关于价值敏感设计的拟议研讨会旨在：1）进一步发展和完善研究议程; 2）通过培养广泛的研究人员社区来促进研究。为了确保代表多个观点和社区，组织者及其指导委员会将确定多学科研究“团队”（通常是教师和研究生）并邀请他们参加。每个四个广泛的知识领域将包括-设计师，人文主义者，社会科学家和技术专家。

In recent years, there has been a growing national awareness that the fast-paced development and deployment of information technology can transform society in paradoxical and/or unintended ways. There is general agreement that more research is needed to identify, understand, anticipate, and address the scope and trajectory of these changes. One new and promising approach is to better understand how the design of information technologies can be linked to social outcomes. Instead of assuming that the design of information technologies is a simple engineering feat whereby value-neutral systems specifications are produced and then - given sufficient time, money and skilled labor - achieved in a particular artifact, the design process is better understood as one where various stakeholders can have conflicting goals and priorities and where trade-offs are constantly balanced. In addition, designers often have implicit (and sometimes incorrect) assumptions about users and how they will use a particular artifact. As a consequence, a variety of social values can come to be embodied in artifacts, resulting in both intended and unintended consequences. To begin to understand how this works in practice and how designers of IT can become more sensitive to their role in fostering certain outcomes, more interest in doing this kind of research needs to be generated. This proposed workshop on Value-Sensitive Design intends to: 1) further develop and refine a research agenda; and 2) stimulate research by cultivating a broad community of researchers. To insure that multiple perspectives and communities are represented, multi-disciplinary research "teams" (often faculty and graduate students) will be identified by the organizers and its steering committee and invited. Each of four broad knowledge areas will be included - designers, humanists, social scientists and technologists.