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Projects:
Values
in
Technology Design: Democracy, Autonomy, and Justice
This website is for researchers,
practitioners, and
public interest advocates who understand that information and
communications technologies are a crucial medium for asserting social,
political, and moral values such as freedom, autonomy, justice,
privacy, and democracy.
How do we ensure a place for values, alongside technical standards such
as speed, efficiency, and reliability, as criteria by which we judge
quality and acceptability of computer and information systems and new
media? How do values such as privacy, autonomy, democracy, and social
justice become integral to conception, design, and development, not
merely retrofitted after completion?
PORTIA: Sensitive
Information in a Wired World
Increasing use of computers and networks in
business, government, recreation, and almost all aspects of daily life
has led to a proliferation of online sensitive data, i.e., data that,
if used improperly, can harm the data subjects. As a result, concern
about the ownership, control, privacy, and accuracy of these data has
become a top priority. This project focuses on both the technical
challenges of handling sensitive data and the policy and legal issues
facing data subjects, data owners, and data users.
NYU
PORTIA Projects
PORTIA at NYU focuses on social, political,
and
ethical aspects of the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution
of sensitive information about people.
Project Team: Dr. Helen Nissenbaum (director), Timothy Weber, Michael
Zimmer, Rachel Aridor, and Maja Petric.
Conferences:
Accessible
Design
in the Digital World (Dundee, Scotland;
August 23-25, 2005)
The conference will explore the frontiers of
inclusive design in the real world. It will examine some of the
challenges in in both implementing guidelines and meeting legal
responsibilities. There will be opportunities for discussion and debate
among those at the front-line of design and development work and those
providing guidance regarding accessible and inclusive design.
Participating in
Technology Design and Intervention: Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas
of Multiple Roles
(Aarhus, Denmark, August
20-24, 2005)
In this workshop, we will discuss
methodological
and ethical challenges of engaging end users in technology design and
implementation. Issues to be addressed will include the relationship
between work context and methods for engaging end users in design, and
goals of end user engagement in design-- is user engagement in design a
research activity, a design activity, or is it aimed at altering
practice? These and other issues will be addressed through circulation
of written work prior to the workshop, and in depth discussion during
the workshop.
World Summit on Free
Information
Infrastructures (London, England, October 1-3, 2005)
A preparatory peak for the World Summit on Free Information
Infrastructures, a gathering of Free Infrastructure developers of all
kinds.
Participatory
Design Conference (Trento, Italy, July 31 - August 5, 2006)
The theme of the 2006 PD conference, "Expanding Boundaries in Design,"
focuses attention on the multiple contexts in which design takes place
and on an expanding range of possible design outcomes. The conference
will bring together a multidisciplinary and international group of
researchers, software developers, social scientists, designers,
activists, practitioners, users, citizens, cultural workers and
managers who adopt distinctively participatory approaches in the design
of artefacts, systems, services, environments and
technologies.
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