CS 5/692, Winter 2020

February 17 / Week 7

Value-Sensitive Design

We will have no in-class session this week, as Monday is President’s Day. Our readings this week are on the role that values and ethics can and should play in the practice of CS and machine learning.

Readings

• Friedman, B., & Kahn, P. H. (2002). Human Values, Ethics, and Design. In The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications (pp. 1177–1201).
• Schnoebelen, T. (2017). Goal-Oriented Design for Ethical Machine Learning and NLP. Presented at the Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, Valencia, Spain: Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Friedman, B., Hendry, D. G., & Borning, A. (2017). A Survey of Value Sensitive Design Methods. Found. Trends Human-Computer Interaction, 11(2), 63–125. Chapters 1-3

Optional but strongly recommended

• Keyes, Os. (2019). The Gardener’s Vision of Data. Real Life Magazine, 5/6/19