Value-sensitive Action Design Research: Improving the Consideration and Traceability of Values in Design Decisions

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  • Larissa Gebken
  • Matthis Jacobs
  • Paul Drews
  • Ingrid Schirmer
  • Andreas Drechsler
Design-oriented research in general and action design research in particular aims to impact the real world in a way that has demonstrably positive outcomes for organizations or society. However, the current methodological guidance for action design research currently lacks a way to proactively incorporate the consideration of values into the resulting designs and interventions. Values are often a crucial aspect in the responsible design of technologies to achieve sustainably positive organizational or societal effects. The value sensitive design approach is seen as a promising way to achieve this. In this paper, we propose an extension of the action design research tasks with value sensitive design considerations and introduce the value-sensitive decision log method to trace how values underpinned and influenced design decisions. Both contributions were developed based on reflections and method enhancement in an action design research project aiming at developing a digital social innovation for supporting humans experiencing homelessness. Researchers and other participants in action design research projects can draw on our approach to better incorporate value-sensitive decisions in the action design research process
Original languageEnglish
Article number1
JournalScandinavian Journal of Information Systems
Volume36
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)5-36
Number of pages32
ISSN0905-0167
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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  • Business informatics - action design research, decision making, digital social innovation, traceability, value sensitive design, value-sensdecision log

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