The article argues that mainstream value-sensitive approaches to design have been
based on narrow understandings of personhood and social dynamics, which are
biased toward Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic cultures and
contradicted by empirical evidence. To respond to this weakness, the article suggests that design may benefit from focusing on user behaviours from the joint
perspective of values and norms, especially across cultural contexts. As such, it
proposes Norm Sensitive Design as a complement to value-sensitive approaches
when designing and implementing new technologies. Versus values, norms serve as
more accurate predictors or descriptors of behaviours and can thus support valuesensitive approaches to realize the aspiration of informing user behaviour via design. The article makes two key contributions. On the theoretical side, it promotes
the consideration of norms in design. On the practical side, it offers designers and
instructors prompts for reflecting on design ethics from the perspective of norms.
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Information Leakage in Index Coding With Sensitive and Non-Sensitive Messages
- Award ID(s):
- 1815322
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10351608
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 3256 to 3261
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation