Currently, value sensitive design (VSD) does not commit to a particular ethical theory. Critiques... more Currently, value sensitive design (VSD) does not commit to a particular ethical theory. Critiques contend that without such an explicit commitment, VSD lacks a methodology for distinguishing genuine moral values from mere stakeholders-preferences and runs the risk of attending to a set of values that is unprincipled or unbounded. We argue that VSD practitioners need to complement it with an ethical theory. We argue in favour of a mid-level ethical theory to fulfil this role.
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012
This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirement... more This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirements engineering, ethics and related fields. We will share knowledge and insights on methods to account for human values in information technology design. Through short presentations, group discussions and practical design group work, participants will collaborate on developing methodological frameworks for values in human-centered computing, and putting these methods into
ABSTRACT Ageing of society makes a paradigm shift in western care systems necessary. To be sustai... more ABSTRACT Ageing of society makes a paradigm shift in western care systems necessary. To be sustainable, new care systems have to be implemented to integrate medical and social aspects involving formal and informal caregivers. The use of technology becomes indispensible in this setting to facilitate self-management and cost-effective service delivery. Care@Home takes an innovative approach to the design of a service delivery platform that aims at supporting the elderly people’s wellbeing and independence in their homes. With participatory and value sensitive design we ensure that the needs, concerns and values of the elderly but also of all other stakeholders are accounted for.
This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirement... more This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirements engineering, ethics and related fields. We will share knowledge and insights on methods to account for human values in information technology design. Through short presentations, group discussions and practical design group work, participants will collaborate on developing methodological frameworks for values in human-centered computing, and putting these methods into
BACKGROUND Despite the enormous number of assistive technologies (ATs) in dementia care, the mana... more BACKGROUND Despite the enormous number of assistive technologies (ATs) in dementia care, the management of challenging behavior (CB) of persons with dementia (PwDs) by informal caregivers in home care is widely disregarded. The first-line strategies to manage CB is to support the understanding of the underlying causes of CB to formulate individualized non-pharmacological approaches. App- and sensor-based approaches combining multimodal sensors (actimetry and other modalities) and caregiver information are an innovative way to support the understanding of CB for family caregivers. OBJECTIVE The main objective of this paper is to describe the design of a feasibility study and a process evaluation of a newly developed app- and sensor-based intervention to manage challanging behavior of persons with dementia for caregivers at home. METHODS In this study feasibility study we performed an outcome and a process evaluation with a pre-post descriptive design over an 8-week intervention perio...
Currently, value sensitive design (VSD) does not commit to a particular ethical theory. Critiques... more Currently, value sensitive design (VSD) does not commit to a particular ethical theory. Critiques contend that without such an explicit commitment, Value sensitive design lacks a methodology for distinguishing genuine moral values from mere stakeholders-preferences and runs the risk of attending to a set of values that is unprincipled or unbounded. We argue that VSD practitioners need to complement it with an ethical theory. We argue in favour of a mid-level ethical theory to fulfil this role.
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Unobtrusive recognition of the user's mood is an essential capability for affect-adaptive sys... more Unobtrusive recognition of the user's mood is an essential capability for affect-adaptive systems. Mood is a subtle, long-term affective state, often misrecognized even by humans. The challenge to train a machine to recognize it from, for example, a video of the user, is significant, and already begins with the lack of ground truth for supervised learning. Existing affective databases consist mainly of short videos, annotated in terms of expressed emotions rather than mood. In very few cases, we encounter perceived mood annotations, of questionable reliability, however, due to the subjectivity of mood estimation and the small number of coders involved. In this work, we introduce a new database for mood recognition from video. Our database contains 180 long, acted videos, depicting typical daily scenarios, and subtle facial and bodily expressions. The videos cover three visual modalities (face, body, Kinect data), and are annotated in terms of emotions (via G-trace) and mood (via...
Personal informatics apps that promote healthy consumption share similar aims, but vary in the me... more Personal informatics apps that promote healthy consumption share similar aims, but vary in the means they adopt to meet them. The adopted means reflect different stances. Stances are the positions that designers implicitly take on a range of issues, such as personal information, freedom of choice and responsibility. Judgments on values such as privacy, autonomy and accountability underlie these stances. We argue for the use of stances as a tool to design personal informatics apps for healthy consumption. Making stances explicit and exploring alternate stances can help designers and stakeholders analyze means and their consequences, and identify and explore alternative approaches. This can better align app’s approaches with users' values, improving ethical acceptability, adoption and long-term use. We examine a number of apps, identify the implicit stances they take, and propose next steps toward using stances as a design tool.
A field study of 24 participants over 10 weeks explored user behavior and perceptions in a smartc... more A field study of 24 participants over 10 weeks explored user behavior and perceptions in a smartcard authentication system. Ethnographic methods used to collect data included diaries, surveys, interviews, and field observations. We observed a number ...
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '13, 2013
ABSTRACT We introduce a design method for evolving a co-design space to support stakeholders untr... more ABSTRACT We introduce a design method for evolving a co-design space to support stakeholders untrained in design. Specifically, the purpose of the method is to expand and shape a co-design space so that stakeholders, acting as designers, focus not only on the form and function of a tool being envisioned but also on the social context of its use and values that lie with individuals, groups, and societies. The method introduces value sensitive stakeholder prompts and designer prompts into a co-design process, creating a particular kind of reflection-on-action cycle. The prompts provide a means for bringing empirical data on values and theoretical perspective into the co-design process. We present the method in terms of a general model, the Value Sensitive Action-Reflection Model; place the model within discourse on co-design spaces; and illustrate the model with a discussion of its application in a lo-fi prototyping activity around safety for homeless young people. We conclude with reflections on the model and method.
ABSTRACT Creating user preference models has become an important endeavor for HCI. Forming a pref... more ABSTRACT Creating user preference models has become an important endeavor for HCI. Forming a preference profile is a constructive process in the user’s mind depending on use context as well as a user’s thinking and information processing style. We believe a one-style-fits-all approach to the design of these interfaces is not sufficient in supporting users in constructing an accurate profile. We present work towards a compositional design approach that will lead designers in the creation of preference elicitation interfaces. The core of the approach is a set of elements created based on design principles and cognitive styles of the user. Given the use context of the preference elicitation suitable elements can be identified and strategically combined into interfaces. The interfaces will be evaluated in an iterative, compositional way by target users to reach a desired outcome interface. KeywordsCompositional Design–Preference Elicitation–Interface Design
ABSTRACT Ageing of society makes a paradigm shift in western care systems necessary. To be sustai... more ABSTRACT Ageing of society makes a paradigm shift in western care systems necessary. To be sustainable, new care systems have to be implemented to integrate medical and social aspects involving formal and informal caregivers. The use of technology becomes indispensible in this setting to facilitate self-management and cost-effective service delivery. Care@Home takes an innovative approach to the design of a service delivery platform that aims at supporting the elderly people’s wellbeing and independence in their homes. With participatory and value sensitive design we ensure that the needs, concerns and values of the elderly but also of all other stakeholders are accounted for.
Currently, value sensitive design (VSD) does not commit to a particular ethical theory. Critiques... more Currently, value sensitive design (VSD) does not commit to a particular ethical theory. Critiques contend that without such an explicit commitment, VSD lacks a methodology for distinguishing genuine moral values from mere stakeholders-preferences and runs the risk of attending to a set of values that is unprincipled or unbounded. We argue that VSD practitioners need to complement it with an ethical theory. We argue in favour of a mid-level ethical theory to fulfil this role.
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012
This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirement... more This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirements engineering, ethics and related fields. We will share knowledge and insights on methods to account for human values in information technology design. Through short presentations, group discussions and practical design group work, participants will collaborate on developing methodological frameworks for values in human-centered computing, and putting these methods into
ABSTRACT Ageing of society makes a paradigm shift in western care systems necessary. To be sustai... more ABSTRACT Ageing of society makes a paradigm shift in western care systems necessary. To be sustainable, new care systems have to be implemented to integrate medical and social aspects involving formal and informal caregivers. The use of technology becomes indispensible in this setting to facilitate self-management and cost-effective service delivery. Care@Home takes an innovative approach to the design of a service delivery platform that aims at supporting the elderly people’s wellbeing and independence in their homes. With participatory and value sensitive design we ensure that the needs, concerns and values of the elderly but also of all other stakeholders are accounted for.
This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirement... more This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners of human-centered computing, requirements engineering, ethics and related fields. We will share knowledge and insights on methods to account for human values in information technology design. Through short presentations, group discussions and practical design group work, participants will collaborate on developing methodological frameworks for values in human-centered computing, and putting these methods into
BACKGROUND Despite the enormous number of assistive technologies (ATs) in dementia care, the mana... more BACKGROUND Despite the enormous number of assistive technologies (ATs) in dementia care, the management of challenging behavior (CB) of persons with dementia (PwDs) by informal caregivers in home care is widely disregarded. The first-line strategies to manage CB is to support the understanding of the underlying causes of CB to formulate individualized non-pharmacological approaches. App- and sensor-based approaches combining multimodal sensors (actimetry and other modalities) and caregiver information are an innovative way to support the understanding of CB for family caregivers. OBJECTIVE The main objective of this paper is to describe the design of a feasibility study and a process evaluation of a newly developed app- and sensor-based intervention to manage challanging behavior of persons with dementia for caregivers at home. METHODS In this study feasibility study we performed an outcome and a process evaluation with a pre-post descriptive design over an 8-week intervention perio...
Currently, value sensitive design (VSD) does not commit to a particular ethical theory. Critiques... more Currently, value sensitive design (VSD) does not commit to a particular ethical theory. Critiques contend that without such an explicit commitment, Value sensitive design lacks a methodology for distinguishing genuine moral values from mere stakeholders-preferences and runs the risk of attending to a set of values that is unprincipled or unbounded. We argue that VSD practitioners need to complement it with an ethical theory. We argue in favour of a mid-level ethical theory to fulfil this role.
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Unobtrusive recognition of the user's mood is an essential capability for affect-adaptive sys... more Unobtrusive recognition of the user's mood is an essential capability for affect-adaptive systems. Mood is a subtle, long-term affective state, often misrecognized even by humans. The challenge to train a machine to recognize it from, for example, a video of the user, is significant, and already begins with the lack of ground truth for supervised learning. Existing affective databases consist mainly of short videos, annotated in terms of expressed emotions rather than mood. In very few cases, we encounter perceived mood annotations, of questionable reliability, however, due to the subjectivity of mood estimation and the small number of coders involved. In this work, we introduce a new database for mood recognition from video. Our database contains 180 long, acted videos, depicting typical daily scenarios, and subtle facial and bodily expressions. The videos cover three visual modalities (face, body, Kinect data), and are annotated in terms of emotions (via G-trace) and mood (via...
Personal informatics apps that promote healthy consumption share similar aims, but vary in the me... more Personal informatics apps that promote healthy consumption share similar aims, but vary in the means they adopt to meet them. The adopted means reflect different stances. Stances are the positions that designers implicitly take on a range of issues, such as personal information, freedom of choice and responsibility. Judgments on values such as privacy, autonomy and accountability underlie these stances. We argue for the use of stances as a tool to design personal informatics apps for healthy consumption. Making stances explicit and exploring alternate stances can help designers and stakeholders analyze means and their consequences, and identify and explore alternative approaches. This can better align app’s approaches with users' values, improving ethical acceptability, adoption and long-term use. We examine a number of apps, identify the implicit stances they take, and propose next steps toward using stances as a design tool.
A field study of 24 participants over 10 weeks explored user behavior and perceptions in a smartc... more A field study of 24 participants over 10 weeks explored user behavior and perceptions in a smartcard authentication system. Ethnographic methods used to collect data included diaries, surveys, interviews, and field observations. We observed a number ...
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '13, 2013
ABSTRACT We introduce a design method for evolving a co-design space to support stakeholders untr... more ABSTRACT We introduce a design method for evolving a co-design space to support stakeholders untrained in design. Specifically, the purpose of the method is to expand and shape a co-design space so that stakeholders, acting as designers, focus not only on the form and function of a tool being envisioned but also on the social context of its use and values that lie with individuals, groups, and societies. The method introduces value sensitive stakeholder prompts and designer prompts into a co-design process, creating a particular kind of reflection-on-action cycle. The prompts provide a means for bringing empirical data on values and theoretical perspective into the co-design process. We present the method in terms of a general model, the Value Sensitive Action-Reflection Model; place the model within discourse on co-design spaces; and illustrate the model with a discussion of its application in a lo-fi prototyping activity around safety for homeless young people. We conclude with reflections on the model and method.
ABSTRACT Creating user preference models has become an important endeavor for HCI. Forming a pref... more ABSTRACT Creating user preference models has become an important endeavor for HCI. Forming a preference profile is a constructive process in the user’s mind depending on use context as well as a user’s thinking and information processing style. We believe a one-style-fits-all approach to the design of these interfaces is not sufficient in supporting users in constructing an accurate profile. We present work towards a compositional design approach that will lead designers in the creation of preference elicitation interfaces. The core of the approach is a set of elements created based on design principles and cognitive styles of the user. Given the use context of the preference elicitation suitable elements can be identified and strategically combined into interfaces. The interfaces will be evaluated in an iterative, compositional way by target users to reach a desired outcome interface. KeywordsCompositional Design–Preference Elicitation–Interface Design
ABSTRACT Ageing of society makes a paradigm shift in western care systems necessary. To be sustai... more ABSTRACT Ageing of society makes a paradigm shift in western care systems necessary. To be sustainable, new care systems have to be implemented to integrate medical and social aspects involving formal and informal caregivers. The use of technology becomes indispensible in this setting to facilitate self-management and cost-effective service delivery. Care@Home takes an innovative approach to the design of a service delivery platform that aims at supporting the elderly people’s wellbeing and independence in their homes. With participatory and value sensitive design we ensure that the needs, concerns and values of the elderly but also of all other stakeholders are accounted for.
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