From Scroll to Soul: Design Features of Social Media Platforms and Their Impact on Users' Mental Well-Being

The prevalence of mental health issues among adolescents and young adults is increasing, with social media usage identified as a potential contributing factor. As technology becomes more integral to daily life, the design decisions of social media platforms emerge as significant determinants of users' mental well-being.<br/>Despite awareness of...

InsightSpace: Broadening Inclusive Education Horizons for Vision Impairment

This thesis explores the challenges faced by students with vision impairment in accessing visual educational content, with the goal of designing an inclusive tool to enhance their learning experience. Adopting a human-centered design approach backed with value-sensitive design, the research methodology combined qualitative and quantitative...

Creating a value-driven Digital Identity Future: Engaging multiple stakeholders in strategic dialogues to balance values in the emergent ecosystem of digital identity in Europe

We live in an increasingly complex world in which policy regulations and system development must balance technology, existing regulations and all the people participating in the system. Currently, digital identities facilitate multiple verification processes in multiple contexts. For example, to give the ability to prove their own identity to...

Why we should not mistake accuracy of medical AI for efficiency

In the medical literature, promising results regarding accuracy of medical AI are presented as claims for its potential to increase efficiency. This elision of concepts is misleading and incorrect. First, the promise that AI will reduce human workload rests on a too narrow assessment of what constitutes workload in the first place. Human...

Values for a Post-Pandemic Future

This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and other tools requires thinking about values in the context of a pandemic as well...

Values and Design

It has long been recognized that technology is value-laden. In the last few decades, a number of approaches—such as value sensitive design (VSD)—have been developed to systematically and explicitly address values in design. This contribution discusses four general issues that any approach aiming at integrating values into design should address: ...

Autonomous Shipping Systems: Designing for Safety, Control and Responsibility

Designing for human rights in AI

In the age of Big Data, companies and governments are increasingly using algorithms to inform hiring decisions, employee management, policing, credit scoring, insurance pricing, and many more aspects of our lives. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can help us make evidence-driven, efficient decisions, but can also confront us with unjustified...

Phishing as a Service: Designing an ethical way of mimicking targeted phishing attacks to train employees

Organisations want to protect themselves against targeted phishing attacks, and mimicking those in order to train their employees in an important measure to do so. However, previous experiments have shown that this is ethically sensitive and might lead to feelings of deception and harm at the side of the employees. In this paper, the design of...

Adding Ethical Values to Situated Cognitive Engineering

The subject of this master thesis is to add ethical values to the Situated Cognitive Engineering (sCE) design methodology by combining it with Value Sensitive Design (VSD). The new methodology called sCEThics was implemented in the Situated Cognitive Engineering Tool by TNO and evaluated with users of the tool mainly based on the usefulness of...

Information Sharing in Global Containerised Trade: From Abstract Organizational Values to Concrete Systems

During the design of a new technology many design choices need to be made at a high level of detail. These detailed design decisions shape the nature of the resulting technology. The reasoning underlying each decision is ultimately based on abstract organizational values such as integrity, trust, security, or fairness. These values are, however,...

The value (driven) web

This paper presents a vision on the importance of values and ethical aspects in web science. We create(d) the Internet, but now the Internet (technology) is shaping our world increasingly: the way we experience, interact, transact, conduct business et cetera. The Internet is ubiquitous and vital to many aspects of our society; it is substituting...