Atomically Precise Manufacturing and Responsible Innovation

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Umbrello
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Value Sensitive Design ◽  
A Value ◽  
Global Impacts ◽  
Strong Candidate ◽  
Molecular Manufacturing ◽  
Suitable Framework

Although continued investments in nanotechnology are made, atomically precise manufacturing (APM) to date is still regarded as speculative technology. APM, also known as molecular manufacturing, is a token example of a converging technology, has great potential to impact and be affected by other emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and ICT. The development of APM thus can have drastic global impacts depending on how it is designed and used. This article argues that the ethical issues that arise from APM - as both a standalone technology or as a converging one - affects the roles of stakeholders in such a way as to warrant an alternate means furthering responsible innovation in APM research. This article introduces a value-based design methodology called value sensitive design (VSD) that may serve as a suitable framework to adequately cater to the values of stakeholders. Ultimately, it is concluded that VSD is a strong candidate framework for addressing the moral concerns of stakeholders during the preliminary stages of technological development.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Users Award Programme from a Value Sensitive Design Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Åke Walldius ◽  
Jan Gulliksen ◽  
Yngve Sundblad
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Value Sensitive Design ◽  
Large Domain ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
A Value ◽  
Design Perspective

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The goal of the UsersAward (UA) programme is to develop and maintain a strategy for enhancing the quality of workplace software through on-going user-driven quality assessment. Key activities are development of sets of quality criteria, as the U</span><span>SER </span><span>C</span><span>ERTIFIED </span><span>2002 and 2006 instruments, and performing large domain specific user satisfaction surveys building on these quality criteria. In 2005 we performed a first analysis of the values that inform the criteria and procedure making up the 2002 instrument, using the Value Sensitive Design methodology. This paper is a follow-up of that study. We report on new types of stakeholders having engaged with the UA programme and reflect on how the conceptual considerations and explicit values of the programme have shifted as a consequence. </span></p></div></div></div>

Alternative tourism and civil society in Athens

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Hecate Vergopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Alternative Tourism ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Web Forum ◽  
Guided Tours ◽  
Do So

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to tackle the issue of the meaning of tourism as it is being crippled by the economic crisis in Greece. Design/methodology/approach To do so, it brings together the findings of three different fieldworks related to tourism in Athens in times of crisis. Each one of these focuses on a specific player of tourism: a linguistic and semiological analysis led mainly on travel guides and ad campaigns deals with the industry of tourism; a linguistic analysis of tourists’ posts on a French web forum deals with the tourists themselves; and an ethnographical approach of alternative guided tours of Athens focuses on local players (associations and cooperatives offering out of the beaten tracks tours). Findings The whole study reveals that there is a misunderstanding between the industry and the consumers toward what the tourist practice should mean: whereas the tourists are in search of an ethical meaning, the industry claims there is no room for such issues. The alternative players, however, offer a political perspective that embraces the ethical issues raised by tourists. Originality/value They thus might, in the end, show us the way a so-called “civil society” could also have its own role to perform in tourism.

20 years of ETHICOMP: time to celebrate?

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 166-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Carsten Stahl ◽  
Charles M Ess
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Conference Series ◽  
Design Build ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Important Building Block ◽  
Academic Debate

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an introduction to the special issue by providing background on the ETHICOMP conference series and a discussion of its role in the academic debate on ethics and computing. It provides the context that influenced the launch of the conference series and highlights its unique features. Finally, it provides an overview of the papers in the special issues. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines an historical account of ETHICOMP and a review of the existing papers. Findings – ETHICOMP is one of the well-established conference series (alongside IACAP and CEPE) focused on ethical issues of information and computing. Its special features include: multidisciplinary and diversity of contributors and contributions; explicit outreach to professionals whose work is to design, build, deploy and maintain specific computing applications in the world at large; creation of knowledge that is accessible and relevant across fields and disciplines; intention of making a practical difference to development, use and policy of computing principles and artefacts; and creation of an inclusive, supportive and nurturing community across traditional knowledge silos. Originality/value – The paper is the first one to explicitly define the nature of ETHICOMP which is an important building block in the future development of the conference series and will contribute to the further self-definition of the ETHICOMP community.

scholarly journals The socialisation of scientific and technological research

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. C01
Author(s):  
Yuri Castelfranchi ◽  
Nico Pitrelli
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Science Society ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social Interests

In the last decades, production of science and technology as well as science-society relationships started changing rapidly. Research is asked to be more effective, fast, accountable, trans-disciplinary, result-oriented, policy-driven and able to generate benefits for people and firms in the short and middle run. While a strong intensification of science-society relationships is occurring, an increasing number of actors and stakeholders are involved in research production. At the same time, pervasiveness of technology is rendering users an active part in technological development; economic and social interests on science and technology are growing on a global scale; new democratic and ethical issues emerge. Despite the European institutions’ efforts, all those trends and phenomena are occurring in an extremely fragmented way. In this scenario, a fairly balanced and consistent co-evolution between science and society can no longer be taken for granted. This is just the starting point of the following comment section that, through the  Luciano d’Andrea, Sally Wyatt, Erik Aarden, Jos Lejten and Peter Sekloča’s writings, aims to analyse the different aspects and questions around the socialisation of science and technology’s matter.

Value-Sensitive Design for Feminist Technology: Designing for “Feminist Fatherhood” with Nonwhite Latinx and White Fathers

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Vacca
Keyword(s):  
Design Approach ◽  
Value Sensitive Design ◽  
A Value ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
White Fathers

Value-sensitive design is an approach that seeks to explicitly center the values of design stakeholders. In doing so, the method provides a rich analytical backdrop in which to explore how participants make sense of values and embody values in their designs. In this study, I explore the broad question of how a value-sensitive design approach can be used to surface, address, and possibly reconcile the similar and different culturally informed ways we make sense of being feminist fathers. Two groups of self-proclaimed feminist fathers, white non-Latinx and nonwhite Latinx, engaged in a value-sensitive design approach to designing technology to support their conceptualizations of feminist fatherhood. Four themes around differences between the groups and the kinds of reflections the participants engaged in are summarized. Based on our findings, I contribute suggestions for adapting value-sensitive design approaches to scaffold certain kinds of reflection around authenticity and interpretation in ways that are more grounded in themes of nondominance.

Responsible Innovation and Standard Selection

2015 ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Geerten van de Kaa
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Value Sensitive Design ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Acceptable Standard ◽  
Market Dominance ◽  
De Vries ◽  
Standard Development

This chapter discusses the notion of “responsible innovation” and “value sensitive design”. It applies these notions to standardization and more specifically to standard selection. Based on earlier research (Van de Kaa, 2013; Van den Ende, Van de Kaa, Den Uyl, & De Vries, 2012), it is proposed that standards should be flexible to facilitate changes related to ethical and societal values. An acceptable standard can be achieved by involving users in the standard development process. The understanding of standardization and standard selection in particular can be improved by incorporating concepts and theories from the discipline of philosophy. This chapter discusses three conceptualizations of standard selection: market dominance, socio-political acceptance, and acceptability.

Engineering Ethics Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balamuralithara Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Education ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Engineering Ethics Education ◽  
Students Attitudes

In this chapter, the importance of engineering ethics education in engineering programmes is discussed, involving major elements that build ethics education. Definitions and concepts of engineering ethics are introduced, along with an engineering code of ethics. Ethical education in engineering programmes is analyzed, focusing on teaching approaches and the effect of science and technological development on engineering socio-ethical issues. Survey results are presented, which illustrate students' attitudes toward engineering ethics, where it is found that students' attitudes were poor. Some strategies are suggested to improve engineering ethical education in engineering programmes.

Engineering Ethics Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 1383-1393
Author(s):  
Balamuralithara Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Education ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Engineering Ethics Education ◽  
Students Attitudes

In this chapter, the importance of engineering ethics education in engineering programmes is discussed, involving major elements that build ethics education. Definitions and concepts of engineering ethics are introduced, along with an engineering code of ethics. Ethical education in engineering programmes is analyzed, focusing on teaching approaches and the effect of science and technological development on engineering socio-ethical issues. Survey results are presented, which illustrate students' attitudes toward engineering ethics, where it is found that students' attitudes were poor. Some strategies are suggested to improve engineering ethical education in engineering programmes.

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