4 Ethics

Question 1

1. Ideation phase

What do you investigate in VSD envisioning?

Answer 1

• Pervasiveness
• Stakeholders
• Values
• Time
• Multi-lifespan

Question 2

1. Ideation phase

What is VSD envisioning?

Answer 2

A method where different scenarios for the project are considered.
Scenarios:
- Crossing national boundaries (Pervasiveness)
- Consider children (stakeholders)
- Environmental sustainability (values)
- Choosing not to use (Time)
- Stages of life (Multi-lifespan)

Question 3

1. Ideation phase

What is VSD?

Answer 3

Value Sensitive Design

Question 4

1. Ideation phase

What is VSD about?

Answer 4

An approach to design of technology that accounts for human values in principled and systematic manner throughout the design process.

Question 5

1. Ideation phase

What is VSD primarily concerned with?

Answer 5

Values that center on:
- human well-being
- human dignity
- justice
- welfare
- human rights

Question 6

1. Ideation phase

What is the requirement for VSD?

Answer 6

Broaden the goals and criteria for judging the quality of technological systems to include those that advance human flourishing.

Question 7

1. Ideation phase

What does the environmental sustainability value entail?

Answer 7

Sustaining ecosystems such that they meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations

Question 8

1. Ideation phase

What are the envision criterias?

Answer 8

Criterias intended to raise awareness of long-term and systematic issues in design.
- Time
- Values
- Pervasiveness
- Stakeholder

Envision long-term influence of new technology - as it spans across time, becomes pervasive throighout society, affects the lives of different stakeholders, and raises issues that touch human values.

Question 9

What is the stakeholder criteria?

Answer 9

Emphasizes the range of effect of technology, on both direct and indirect

Question 10

What is the time criteria?

Answer 10

Helps guide designers to consider longer term implication of their work

Question 11

What is the values criteria?

Answer 11

Emphasizes the impact of technology on human values.

e.g. environmental sustainability, fairness, expression human dignity

Question 12

What is the pervasiveness criteria?

Answer 12

Emphasizes systematic interactions that follow from the widespread adoption of an interactive technology*

geographic, cultural, demographic, etc

Question 13

What are the phases of Value Sensitive Deisgn?

Answer 13

-The conceptual phase
- The Empircal phase
- The Technological phase.
You iterate though the phases.

Question 14

What is the conceptual phase? (VSD)

Answer 14

Relevant human values are identified and ethical analysis can take place.
Stakeholders engaged

Question 15

What is the empirical phase? (VSD)

Answer 15

Social impacts of the technology are taken into account.

Question 16

What is the technological phase? (VSD)

Answer 16

Technical capabilites are explored, specifically, those which support the chosen human values/social impacts.

Question 17

What is Consequentialism

Answer 17

Ethics based on the consequences of an action

Question 18

What is Deontology?

Answer 18

Ethics based on the wrong or right’ness of an action regardless of consequences. example: you should never build war robots even if it means fewer people dying, because war robots should never be made.

Question 19

Which of the human values are relevant within technological design?

Answer 19

Human welfare, Ownership and property, Privacy, Freedom from bias, Universal Usability, Trust, Autonomy, Informed consent, Accountability, Calmness, Identity, Environmental stability.

Human welfare and universal usability is most relevant to our project.

Question 20

In the context of human values, what is Autonomy?

Answer 20

The ability to decide, plan and act in ways that allows one to achieve their goals.

Question 21

In the context of human values, what is Human welfare?

Answer 21

It includes physical, material and psychological well-being. Aka to be healthy in body and mind. And have the opportunity to acquire currency and material goods

Question 22

In the context of human values, what is Freedom from bias?

Answer 22

The freedom from systematic unfairness perpetrated on individuals or groups, including pre-existing social bias, technical bias, and emergent social bias.

Question 23

What is ethical framework?

Answer 23

A model with points important to the product (ethical principles)
Under each point several VSD values might be added

Question 24

Does ethics have anything to do with technological innovation?

Answer 24

• Environment
• Democracy
• Privacy
• Work
• Violence

Climate change

Climate change,

Question 25

What are the 3 main normative ethical theories?

Answer 25

1. Consequentialism
2. Deontology
3. Virtue ethics

Question 26

What is Virtue ethics?

Answer 26

Focus on virtues/moral character
- Guide the type of person one should be/become

Question 27

COnsequentalism

What is utilitarianism?

Answer 27

the most “good” for the most
people/lifeforms

Question 28

How can you apply the
normative ethical theories to
your projects?

Answer 28

VSD

Question 29

As engineers, what is our responsibility
for the technologies we develop?

Answer 29

Human values and innovation - Doing stupid thing, in a clever way without ethics
Human values and the economy - Purpose of economy is to serve the people and not the economy

Question 30

What is Value sensitive design alternative?

Answer 30

A method. We can always choose NOT to build a technology!