Collaborative Research: SoD-TEAM: Values at Play - Integrating Social Factors into Design

标题：“协作研究：SoD-Team：发挥的价值-将社会因素整合到设计中”本项目的重点是开发一种名为“发挥的价值(VAP)”的软件设计方法，该方法在开发软件系统时将价值考虑在内。该方法或一套最佳做法涉及以下问题：如何将价值一致和系统地纳入软件系统的设计；如何在技术设计的背景下使价值调查具有科学严谨性；以及构建一套可行的一般软件设计原则，以便将各种设计任务的价值统一起来。VAP项目通过特别关注游戏设计中的价值观，将人文、艺术、社会和伦理利益整合到技术系统的科学设计中。该项目涉及三项研究活动，包括：1.制定严格的方法(或最佳做法)，以支持有价值意识的设计；提供硬拷贝和网上的《在发挥作用的价值方法手册》。该阶段探讨的问题包括：如何确定可能与给定设计项目相关的价值，如何在系统设计中体现或表达价值，如何评估设计人员是否以及在多大程度上成功地将目标值嵌入到给定的系统中。2.开发设计中的价值工具包，其中包括：a)游戏构建组件，以帮助学生基于价值导向创建游戏；以及b)几个演示价值与设计特征之间的相关性的工作示例。3.设计培训干预措施的评估：该小组将设计几种工具，以评估方法和工具包中的价值观整合。除了研究活动，这个项目还邀请教职员工和实践者参加一个关于发挥作用的价值观的研讨会。在技术系统中嵌入价值观，并验证这些系统是否确实反映了这些价值观，尤其适合使用电脑游戏，因为它们影响到更大的社会。这项研究也将对IT领域的教育工作者和系统设计师在他们的方法中考虑游戏结构以及对技术、社会和人性的研究感兴趣的学者有用。潜在地，这个项目可能会将这条线的调查提升到普遍的、行业变化的、国际重要性的水平，这不仅促进了对这些问题的人文研究，而且为真人改进了真实的产品。项目经理：Anita J.La SalleDate：2006年7月12日

Title: "Collaborative Research: SoD-TEAM: Values at Play - Integrating Social Factors into Design"The focus of this project is on the development of a software design methodology, titled "Values at Play (VAP)" that takes values into account when developing software systems. The methodology, or set of best practices, addresses such issues as: how values can be consistently and systematically integrated into the design of software systems, how values investigations, in the context of technical design, can be made scientifically rigorous, and, the construction of a viable set of general software design principles that could lead to the integration of values across a variety of design tasks. The VAP project integrates the humanities, the arts, and social, and ethical interests into the scientific design of technological systems by specifically focusing on values in the design of games. The project involves three research activities including: 1. Development of a rigorous methodology (or, best practices) for supporting value conscious design; a handbook of the Values at Play methodology is made available in hardcopy and on the Web. This phase explores such issues as: how to identify values that might be relevant to a given design project, how to embody or express values in system design, how to engage in appraisal of whether and to what extent designers have successfully embedded target values in a given system. 2. Development of a values-in-design toolkit which includes: a) game building components to help students create games based on a values-orientation; and b) several working examples demonstrating values-to-design-feature correlations. 3. Assessment of design training interventions: the team will design several instruments to assess the values integration in the methodology and Toolkit. In addition to the research activities, this project engages faculty and practitioners in a Workshop about Values at Play. Embedding values within technological systems, and verifying that such systems actually reflects those values, is particularly appropriate using computer games since they affect larger society. This research will also be of use to educators and systems designers in the IT field considering game structures in their approaches as well as to scholars interested in the study of technology, society, and humanity. Potentially, this project might advance this line of inquiry to a pervasive, industry changing, international level of importance which not only promotes the humanistic study of these issues but enhances real products for real people.Program Manager: Anita J. La SalleDate: July 12, 2006