ABSTRACT
Value-sensitive design (VSD) is an approach to systems development and software engineering which was first introduced in the last decade of the twentieth century as an approach for incorporating human values into the design of (information) technology. Some of these research communities, like VSD, have also tried to incorporate values into the design of technological systems at an early stage; however, whereas these approaches tend to focus on functional and instrumental values e.g. Although building a user-friendly technology might also increase a user's sense of autonomy or trust, in value-sensitive design the attention for moral values is the primary goal. VSD draws attention to the impact technologies have on human well-being and the quality of human lives. The VSD provides people with the opportunity to deal with these ethical issues in a new and fresh way: by ‘frontloading ethics’ by means of proactive integration of ethical reflection in the early stages of design”.
