Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2020

One-Size-Fits-None: A Heuristic for Proactive Value Sensitive Environmental Design

Donnie Johnson Sackey The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

This article advocates for a contrasting Value Sensitive Design (VSD) framework based on principles of environmental justice, which encourages environmental-sensing wearable developers to make their values apparent to users in their designs in order to transform users into researchers rather than passive data collectors; make technological systems more transparent rather than opaque; and connect users to larger networks of individuals, who share common justice-oriented goals.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2020-01-02
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10.1080/10572252.2019.1634767
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