Workshop on Value-Sensitive Design: Cultivating Research and Community

近年来，越来越多的人意识到，信息技术的快速发展和部署可能以矛盾和/或意想不到的方式改变社会。人们普遍认为，需要更多的研究来识别、理解、预测和处理这些变化的范围和轨迹。一种新的、有希望的方法是更好地理解信息技术的设计如何与社会结果联系起来。与其假设信息技术的设计是一项简单的工程壮举，即产生价值中立的系统规范，然后-给予足够的时间，金钱和熟练的劳动力-在特定的工件中实现，设计过程更好地理解为各种利益相关者可以有冲突的目标和优先级，并且在其中不断权衡平衡。此外，设计师经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，各种各样的社会价值可以体现在人工制品中，从而导致有意和无意的后果。为了开始理解这在实践中是如何工作的，以及IT设计师如何对他们在促进某些结果中的角色变得更加敏感，需要对进行此类研究产生更多的兴趣。本次关于价值敏感设计的研讨会旨在：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群体来促进研究。为了确保多个观点和群体得到代表，多学科研究“团队”（通常是教师和研究生）将由组织者及其指导委员会确定并邀请。将包括四个广泛的知识领域——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.