TY - GEN
T1 - Values in computing
AU - Ferrario, Maria Angela Felicita Cristina
AU - Frauenberger, Chris
AU - Simm, Will
AU - Whittle, Jonathan Nicholas David
AU - Fitzpatrick, Geraldine
AU - Purgathofer, Peter
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - Whether it is in the form of software, system architecture or interface design, anything digital is inevitably affected by values: the organizational values of the project sponsor, the values of the research partners, and the values of each developer and designer. Some values (e.g. commercial success, academic prestige) are easier to quantify than others (e.g. social justice, care for the environment) with the latter often dismissed in decision making processes as lacking of measurable ‘evidence’. However, less easy to measure values are not less real: they are simply less visible. The aim of this one-day workshop is precisely to investigate mechanisms which give more exposure to those values in computing that are less frequently considered. We do so by bringing together practitioners from different computing backgrounds (e.g. software engineering, interaction design, information systems) who have first-hand experience of trying to represent on an equal footing all human values in computing.
AB - Whether it is in the form of software, system architecture or interface design, anything digital is inevitably affected by values: the organizational values of the project sponsor, the values of the research partners, and the values of each developer and designer. Some values (e.g. commercial success, academic prestige) are easier to quantify than others (e.g. social justice, care for the environment) with the latter often dismissed in decision making processes as lacking of measurable ‘evidence’. However, less easy to measure values are not less real: they are simply less visible. The aim of this one-day workshop is precisely to investigate mechanisms which give more exposure to those values in computing that are less frequently considered. We do so by bringing together practitioners from different computing backgrounds (e.g. software engineering, interaction design, information systems) who have first-hand experience of trying to represent on an equal footing all human values in computing.
UR - http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/values-in-computing(3f06d89d-6bb8-4536-90a3-db49f346ffae).html
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ER -