Hi Sandra!
Good question! I think that it for sure it can be design. It's just on another level of applying and developing new types of design skills. You can make use of your design skills on all levels in a way that a sociologist without design skills can’t. I recommend reading Valtonen nordes contribution, describing the evolution of industrial design knowledge: http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/233
Also, me and a few others are arranging a workshop at NordiCHI’18, it would be so cool (!) if you would like to elaborate on your experience in formulating definitions of public policies for AI
development for the city government! I really hope that you would like to submit a position paper on your perspective as a designer on these questions!
- Sara
Hi!
We are pleased to announce that a one-day workshop titled Critical Robotics—Exploring a New Paradigm is going to be held at the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI) in Oslo, Norway, on Sunday September 30, 2018. We invite you to participate in a workshop on this important topic by submitting a position paper.
About the workshop: In recent years, we have witnessed a rise in voices advocating more human-centered and holistic approaches in research on robotic technology. Towards this end, the adoption of broader perspectives and the exploration of critical questions related to the design and study of these technologies in everyday life have become increasingly pressing. In this workshop, we aim for researchers and industry experts to experience hands-on approaches to explore how we can address critical human-centered perspectives in robotic research and whether critical questions within the area of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) could be considered a new emerging paradigm: critical robotics. In this workshop, we invite researchers to jointly explore critical robotics as a new paradigm. We invite all researchers who are interested in actively connecting with holistic perspectives of societal needs and practices, and want to consider how we as researchers engage in and communicate potential robotic solutions compared to alternative solutions and perspectives.
Call for participation: In order to be admitted to the workshop, the participant should write a 2-4 page position paper following the SIGCHI Extended Abstracts (https://sigchi.org/templates/). Prospective participants' backgrounds, perspectives or projects may concern, e.g., issues related to:
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Stakeholder and user perspectives:
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User empowerment (versus obliged use?)
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Digital citizenship
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Teaching practices
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Care practices (private use versus professional use, e.g., work equipment, independence versus isolation?)
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Values and norms:
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Ethics of care
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Virtue ethics
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Ethics and stakeholder perspectives
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Policy
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Discrimination
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Research norms and practices
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Human-oriented research:
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User-centred design
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Critical design
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Value sensitive design
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Participatory design
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Sociology
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Anthropology
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Media and communication studies
Relevant questions that the participants may address in their submission are, e.g.:
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How, and to what extent are users/stakeholders involved in the design of HRI?
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How do current research and methods within HRI research approach the topics of virtue ethics and ethics of care (within the design process, or otherwise)?
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To what extent are the social consequences of HRI considered (for digital citizenship/user empowerment)?
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Digital citizenship is a term frequently used in policy circles and among regulators to denote the use of technology to enhance civic capacities among the adult population and to ensure responsible technology use among children [3][8]. How can the concept of digital citizenship be applied in the HRI field and what implications does it have for robot design?
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Today, it seems to be the case that citizens in general hold unrealistic beliefs about robots and their capabilities. What societal expectations are we as researchers encouraging by the robotic solutions we propose and endorse?
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How do the robotic solutions we create influence governmental policy setting, and how can we consider the risks associated with unsubstantiated policy setting that may negatively impact society?
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When it comes to pressing issues of technology and risk management (e.g., safety and privacy), which ethical considerations should be taken into account when thinking about robot design? And how can we ensure that these are actually reflected upon by commercial developers of technology (industry stakeholders)?
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How do industry stakeholders think about ethical design? How might these attitudes be reflected in their advertising campaigns for new robots? What can the marketing-related messages reveal about the virtues embedded in commercial robot design?
All submissions should be sent to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with the email subject title Submission NordiCHI2018 WS09 on August 10, 2018 at the latest.
Conference webpage: http://nordichi2018.org/
Workshop webpage: https://critical-robotics.weebly.com<https://critical-robotics.weebly.com/>
Timeline:
Workshop position papers submissions deadline: August 10, 2018
Final notification of acceptance for position papers: August 17, 2018
Date of workshop: September 30, 2018
Sincerely,
Sara Ljungblad
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Sara Ljungblad
Ph.D Human-Machine Interaction
Interaction design
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology
On 26 Jun 2018, at 14:36, Sandra Bermudez <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
I was trained as graphic designer and started working as web designer, by
the beginning more on the making: drawing interfaces and coding them. As
long as the projects were more complex I had to focus more on the
definition of the requirements, then on the problem, finally on the people.
That's more UX. When UX was more complex and I had to be accountable to the
business, I became Product Manager and then Head of Product. Now I'm also
working with my city government in the definition of public policies for AI
development.
And I wonder myself: is this still design?
Now I constantly invoke sociology, psychology and humanities principles to
face the concerns of my day to day practice. Recently I attended a
symposium of techno-sociology and now I feel tempted to address the way I
do design as applied sociology.
And yet, we still need "traditional" design.
So, is "strategic" design the evolution of "traditional" design? An
opposition? A displacement?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:56 AM, jean schneider <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
wrote:
Le 26 juin 2018 à 12:27, Ali Ilhan <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> a écrit :
And there are many engineers, who have no formal
education in design, and do not even have a manifest goal of designing
"beautiful" things, who end up designing unarguably "appealing" 3D
objects.
So where do we draw the line? Who is going to decide who is a designer
and
who is not?
Dear Ali, Richard and all,
I don’t wish to enter in the debate, but this part of your mail points at
the difference :
- a designer will spend 5 years learning something about the history of
the field, and this is very likely to cover in a way or another the issues
of how form and function are / have been / thought to be interrelated.
That’s part of his or her culture. As much as 5 years of physics or
mathematics make part of the culture of engineers, or statics part of the
culture of architects…
This means that an engineer might create an « appealing 3D object », by
constraints, by latent memories, by … it will be by chance anyway, because
he or she is unlikely to evaluate the « appealing » side beyond the « I
like it » stance.
As much as I might, sometime, as a designer, find a nice trick to
manufacture some structural component : that will be by experience, trial
and error, and certainly not by any formal and qualified process, of which
I don’t have the knowledge and the culture.
Best regards,
Jean
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