4 Ethics Flashcards
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1. Ideation phase
What do you investigate in VSD envisioning?
- Pervasiveness
- Stakeholders
- Values
- Time
- Multi-lifespan
1. Ideation phase
What is VSD envisioning?
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)
1. Ideation phase
What is VSD?
Value Sensitive Design
1. Ideation phase
What is VSD about?
An approach to design of technology that accounts for human values in principled and systematic manner throughout the design process.
1. Ideation phase
What is VSD primarily concerned with?
Values that center on:
- human well-being
- human dignity
- justice
- welfare
- human rights
1. Ideation phase
What is the requirement for VSD?
Broaden the goals and criteria for judging the quality of technological systems to include those that advance human flourishing.
1. Ideation phase
What does the environmental sustainability value entail?
Sustaining ecosystems such that they meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations
1. Ideation phase
What are the envision criterias?
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.
What is the stakeholder criteria?
Emphasizes the range of effect of technology, on both direct and indirect
What is the time criteria?
Helps guide designers to consider longer term implication of their work
What is the values criteria?
Emphasizes the impact of technology on human values.
e.g. environmental sustainability, fairness, expression human dignity
What is the pervasiveness criteria?
Emphasizes systematic interactions that follow from the widespread adoption of an interactive technology*
geographic, cultural, demographic, etc
What are the phases of Value Sensitive Deisgn?
-The conceptual phase
- The Empircal phase
- The Technological phase.
You iterate though the phases.
What is the conceptual phase? (VSD)
Relevant human values are identified and ethical analysis can take place.
Stakeholders engaged
What is the empirical phase? (VSD)
Social impacts of the technology are taken into account.
What is the technological phase? (VSD)
Technical capabilites are explored, specifically, those which support the chosen human values/social impacts.
What is Consequentialism
Ethics based on the consequences of an action
What is Deontology?
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.
Which of the human values are relevant within technological design?
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.
In the context of human values, what is Autonomy?
The ability to decide, plan and act in ways that allows one to achieve their goals.
In the context of human values, what is Human welfare?
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
In the context of human values, what is Freedom from bias?
The freedom from systematic unfairness perpetrated on individuals or groups, including pre-existing social bias, technical bias, and emergent social bias.
What is ethical framework?
A model with points important to the product (ethical principles)
Under each point several VSD values might be added
Does ethics have anything to do with technological innovation?
- Environment
- Democracy
- Privacy
- Work
- Violence
Climate change
Climate change,
What are the 3 main normative ethical theories?
- Consequentialism
- Deontology
- Virtue ethics
What is Virtue ethics?
Focus on virtues/moral character
- Guide the type of person one should be/become
COnsequentalism
What is utilitarianism?
the most “good” for the most
people/lifeforms
How can you apply the
normative ethical theories to
your projects?
VSD
As engineers, what is our responsibility
for the technologies we develop?
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
What is Value sensitive design alternative?
A method. We can always choose NOT to build a technology!
