This workshop addresses the idea of ‘value-centred HCI’, but recognizes both that this is a complex area with complicated semantics, as well as an area that many people see as relevant to their own work. There are several interpretations of what could be understood by ‘value-centred’:
- are we talking about the relationship between HCI and human values?
- are we talking about the economic value to the business using HCI?
- are we talking about the value to the end-user of the product being designed?
- are we talking about the embedding of user values in a designed product?
One possible response to this complexity is to shrug and say it is too hard. Another is to feel that there is something that might unify all these different interpretations, even if we don’t yet know what the unifying element might be. For example, we might at least notice that many of these perspectives try to move the conversation beyond usefulness.
Our intention for this workshop is to bring together a group of people who hold well-articulated views on this subject, or who have relevant data to share, or who clearly see a set of research questions that we could tackle - even if we do not all immediately see how they all fit together. Then, striving not to throw any point of view out, we hope to create a more clearly defined description of the relationship between values, value, worth and HCI. This definition may be of “value-centered HCI”, or it may clearly articulate two or three distinct areas (for example, ‘values-sensitive design’, ‘worth-centered HCI’ and ‘delivering value to end users’).
As well as creating a poster for the conference, we hope to produce a written paper for ‘interactions’ (or somewhere similar) on the new definitions(s).
Workshop Structure Position papers will be shared before the conference in a discussion forum to enable discussion and structuring of ideas to occur
before the event. Participants will be selected to offer integrative presentations at the workshop based on multiple position