TY - JOUR

T1 - Value-sensitive Action Design Research

T2 - Improving the Consideration and Traceability of Values in Design Decisions

AU - Gebken, Larissa

AU - Jacobs, Matthis

AU - Drews, Paul

AU - Schirmer, Ingrid

AU - Drechsler, Andreas

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - 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

AB - 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

KW - Business informatics

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 36

SP - 5

EP - 36

JO - Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems

JF - Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems

SN - 0905-0167

IS - 2

M1 - 1

ER -