Introduction to the special issue: value sensitive design: charting the next decade

Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 23, pp. 1–3

Abstract

Abstract In this article, we introduce the Special Issue, Value Sensitive Design: Charting the Next Decade, which arose from a week-long workshop hosted by Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, November 14–18, 2016. Forty-one researchers and designers, ranging in seniority from doctoral students to full professors, from Australia, Europe, and North America, and representing a wide range of academic fields participated in the workshop. The first article in the special issue puts forward eight grand challenges for value sensitive design to help guide and shape the field. It is followed by 16 articles consisting of value sensitive design nuggets—short pieces of writing on a new idea, method, challenge, application, or other concept that engages some aspect of value sensitive design. The nuggets are grouped into three clusters: theory, method, and applications. Taken together the grand challenges and nuggets point the way forward for value sensitive design into the next decade and beyond.

Authors 6

1. Batya Friedman

   University of Washington

   Affiliation as printed

   The Value Sensitive Design Lab, The Information School, University of Washington, Washington, USA

2. Maaike Harbers

   Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences

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   Research Center Creating 010, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

3. David G. Hendry corresponding

   University of Washington

   Affiliation as printed

   The Value Sensitive Design Lab, The Information School, University of Washington, Washington, USA

4. Jeroen van den Hoven

   Delft University of Technology

   Affiliation as printed

   Delft Design for Values Institute, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

5. Catholijn M. Jonker Aachen

   Leiden University · Delft University of Technology

   Affiliation as printed

   Interactive Intelligence Group, Fac. EEMCS, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

   LIACS, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

6. Nick Logler

   University of Washington

   Affiliation as printed

   The Value Sensitive Design Lab, The Information School, University of Washington, Washington, USA