I: Value Sensitive Design

Question 1

Direct stakeholders

Answer 1

Those that directly interact with a system, such as employees.

Question 2

Indirect stakeholders

Answer 2

Anyone that doesn’t directly use but is affected by a system. This is often the people whose information is actually contained within a system (e.g. a customer or customer’s customers).

Question 3

Value-sensitive design methods

Answer 3

• Direct and indirect stakeholder analysis
• Value source analysis
• Value scenarios
• Value sketches
• Value-oriented semi-structured interviews.

Question 4

Strategies for skillful practice (SFSP): Clarify project values

Answer 4

what value should the project strive to support?

Question 5

SFSP: Identify direct and indirect stakeholders

Answer 5

Privacy needs vary depending on the stakeholder. One individual can also be a part of multiple stakeholder groups.

Question 6

SFSP: Identify benefits and harms for stakeholders

Answer 6

Benefits and harms should be considered on individual, societal and environmental levels. Ask “why” when people express positive or negative sentiment towards a system.

Question 7

SFSP: Identify and elicit potential values

Answer 7

When you understand benefits and harms, its easier to map them to corresponding values.

Question 8

SFSP: Develop working definition of key values

Answer 8

Define what constitutes a specific value.

Question 9

SFSP: Identify potential value tensions

Answer 9

Values could conflict with one another, but they rarely have binary tradeoffs (you can satisfy both).