Building a "-Sensitive Design" Methodology from Political Philosophies or Ideologies
Anthony Maocheia-Ricci, Edith Law

TL;DR
This paper introduces a new meta-framework called -Sensitive Design that integrates political and ideological values into technology design, extending existing value-sensitive approaches with normative grounding.
Contribution
It proposes -Sensitive Design as a general methodology inspired by CSD, exemplified through Dependency-Sensitive Design, and advocates for deeper integration of philosophy and design.
Findings
Developed the concept of -Sensitive Design as a normative framework.
Created Dependency-Sensitive Design based on political philosophy.
Highlighted the need for further integration of philosophy in design processes.
Abstract
Value-based approaches such as Value Sensitive Design (VSD) enable technology designers to engage with and integrate human values in technology through a tripartite methodology of conceptual, empirical, and technical investigations. However, VSD contains pitfalls in both translating values to requirements and a lack of normative grounding, leading to adaptations such as Jacobs' Capability Sensitive Design (CSD). Inspired by CSD and extensions of the design approach, we propose the concept of creating -Sensitive Design (-SD); a meta-framework to embed various political or ideological values as norms in a design research process. We exemplify this through \emph{Dependency}-Sensitive Design (DSD), combining ideas from Kittay's critiques of classical liberal theory within a practical VSD framework. Finally, we push for further work combining philosophy and design in areas beyond CSD and DSD.
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Taxonomy
TopicsInnovative Human-Technology Interaction · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Information Systems Theories and Implementation
