Value Sensitive Design
- Author
- Batya Friedman, David G. Hendry
- Year
- 2019
Batya Friedman and David Hendry's MIT Press book sets out value sensitive design, a method built over two decades for embedding human values into technology from the first design decision. It pairs the approach's theoretical foundations with seventeen practical methods, including stakeholder analysis and value scenarios.
Friedman and Hendry's mature method for building human values into technology from the very first decision, rather than bolting ethics on at the end. Essentially the SDF's Ethics motto turned into a repeatable Procedures discipline.
Published by MIT Press, the book presents more than two decades of work developing value sensitive design, bringing together its theoretical foundations with seventeen practical methods, including stakeholder analysis, value scenarios and multilifespan timelines. The authors close by pointing to open questions in the field, including the need for deeper study of people indirectly affected by a technology's design.
Where to find it
In the framework
- Procedures Component
- Ethics
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