Design for values in smart grid systems: An exploratory empirical investigation of the ethical values and their interrelationship that play a role in the British public debate on smart grid systems

Smart grid systems (SGSs) are often considered as enablers to the transition to a sustainable economy and power system, because they integrate ICT with renewable energy into the electricity grid. Seemingly, there are societal concerns regarding the impact of SGSs, which underlie ethical values. Due to a lack of understanding and thus...

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...