Collaborative Research: SoD-TEAM: 'Values at Play: Integrating Ethical and Political Factors into System Design'

合作研究：SoD-TEAM：“发挥价值：将道德和政治因素融入系统设计”

• 批准号: 0924088
• 负责人: Mary Flanagan
• 金额: $ 11.35万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924088&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SoD; TEAM; Values

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

标题：“协作研究：SoD-TEAM：游戏中的价值 - 将社会因素融入设计”该项目的重点是开发一种名为“游戏中的价值（VAP）”的软件设计方法，该方法在开发软件系统时考虑到价值。该方法论或一组最佳实践解决了以下问题：如何将价值观一致且系统地集成到软件系统的设计中，如何在技术设计的背景下进行科学严谨的价值观调查，以及构建一套可行的通用软件设计原则，从而将价值观整合到各种设计任务中。 VAP项目通过特别关注游戏设计中的价值观，将人文、艺术、社会和伦理利益融入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. 开发严格的方法（或最佳实践）来支持价值意识设计；游戏价值方法手册以硬拷贝形式和网络形式提供。该阶段探讨的问题包括：如何识别可能与给定设计项目相关的价值观，如何在系统设计中体现或表达价值观，如何评估设计者是否以及在多大程度上成功地将目标价值观嵌入到给定系统中。 2. 开发设计价值观工具包，其中包括： a) 游戏构建组件，帮助学生基于价值观导向创建游戏； b) 几个展示价值与设计特征相关性的工作示例。 3. 设计培训干预措施的评估：团队将设计多种工具来评估方法论和工具包中的价值观整合。除了研究活动之外，该项目还邀请教师和从业者参加关于游戏价值观的研讨会。将价值观嵌入技术系统中，并验证这些系统是否确实反映了这些价值观，使用电脑游戏特别合适，因为它们影响更大的社会。这项研究也将对 IT 领域在其方法中考虑游戏结构的教育工作者和系统设计师以及对技术、社会和人类研究感兴趣的学者有用。该项目有可能将这一研究方向推进到一个普遍的、改变行业的、国际性的重要水平，这不仅促进了对这些问题的人文研究，而且增强了为真实的人们提供的真实产品。项目经理：Anita J. La Salle日期：2006年7月12日