Integrating ethics in design through the value-sensitive design approach.
Conference Paper
The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) has declared that to achieve accredited status, 'engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.' Many engineering professors struggle to integrate this required ethics instruction in technical classes and projects because of the lack of a formalized ethics-in-design approach. However, one methodology developed in human-computer interaction research, the Value-Sensitive Design approach, can serve as an engineering education tool which bridges the gap between design and ethics for many engineering disciplines. The three major components of Value-Sensitive Design, conceptual, technical, and empirical, exemplified through a case study which focuses on the development of a command and control supervisory interface for a military cruise missile.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Cummings, ML
Published Date
- October 2006
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 12 / 4
Start / End Page
- 701 - 715
PubMed ID
- 17199145
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1471-5546
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1353-3452
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1007/s11948-006-0065-0