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Self-reflection on personal values to support value-sensitive design

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Alina Pommeranz,

Christian Detweiler,

Pascal Wiggers,

Catholijn M. JonkerAuthors Info & Claims

BCS-HCI '11: Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Pages 491 - 496

Published: 04 July 2011 Publication History

Abstract

The impact of ubiquitous technology and social media on our lives is rapidly increasing. We explicitly need to consider personal values affected or violated by these systems. Value-sensitive design can guide a designer in building systems that account for human values. However, the framework lacks clear steps to guide elicitation of stakeholders' values. We argue that developing tools for value elicitation that designers can use or give to stakeholders is a feasible solution to this challenge. Crucial in eliciting values is that a stakeholder has to have an understanding about her own values and how they relate in importance. This requires self-reflection. Self-reflection, in turn, requires thinking or analysing one's behaviour in meaningful moments over a long period of time. In this paper, we investigate how current methods from various disciplines can be combined and applied in a tool supporting reflection on personal values. We present an exploratory study investigating photo elicitation and a value questionnaire as methods for expressing and eliciting values with a tool. Based on the results we present an envisioned mobile personal informatics application that triggers people to reflect about their values in real-life contexts.

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BCS-HCI '11: Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

July 2011

572 pages

Conference Chairs:
Linda Little
Northumbria University
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Lynne Coventry
Northumbria University

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BCS Learning & Development Ltd.

Swindon, United Kingdom

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Published: 04 July 2011

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Epstein DCaldeira CFigueiredo MLu XSilva LWilliams LLee JLi QAhuja SChen QDowlatyari PHilby CSultana SEikey EChen Y(2020)Mapping and Taking Stock of the Personal Informatics LiteratureProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/34322314:4(1-38)Online publication date: 18-Dec-2020
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Hussain WMougouei DWhittle JBrun YJohnson BMeliou A(2018)Integrating social values into software design patternsProceedings of the International Workshop on Software Fairness10.1145/3194770.3194777(8-14)Online publication date: 29-May-2018
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