Teaching aspiring industrial designers to understand value(s)

This chapter describes ‘Understanding Values’, a course that teaches<br/>aspiring designers who aim to design for values to disentangle how different<br/>notions of value and values influence the design process, the design outcome,<br/>and how the outcome is evaluated. The course strives to make abstract values<br/>more tangible by asking...

Improving Public Acceptance of Onshore Wind Energy Projects Through Value Sensitive Design (VSD): a qualitative exploration

Wind Energy is heading towards playing a determinant role in the energy sector in the Netherlands, as it has emerged not only as the most economical way to add new capacity to the national grid, but as an important element in the country’s energy transition. The extraction and consumption of traditional sources of energy such as gas and coal are...

Ethical task tracking of operators in agile manufacturing

Diversey BV, a major player of professional hygiene product manufacturing, is facing challenges with agile manufacturing of hygienic products with changeover process consuming most of production time. They are collaborating with the EU-Horizon 2020 COALA project to develop a cognitive intelligent assistant for the production line. They expect to...

Ethics by design and research ethics for artificial intelligence