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Designing with users: Co-design for innovation in emergency technologies

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Publication date2015
Host publicationThe 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
EditorsLeysia Palen, Monika Buscher, Tina Comes, Amanda Hughes
PublisherISCRAM
ISBN (electronic)9788271177881
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventISCRAM 2015 - Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway
Duration: 24/05/201527/05/2015

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ConferenceISCRAM 2015
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityKristiansand
Period24/05/1527/05/15

Conference

ConferenceISCRAM 2015
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityKristiansand
Period24/05/1527/05/15

Abstract

The ever more pervasive ‘informationalization’ of crisis management and response brings both unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Recent years have seen the emergence of attention to ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) in the field of Information and Communication Technology. However, disclosing (and addressing) ELSI issues in design is still a challenge because they are inherently relational, arising from interactions between people, the material and design of the artifact, and the context. In this article, we discuss approaches for addressing such ‘deeper’ and ‘wider’ political implications, values and ethical, legal and social implications that arise between practices, people and technology. Based on a case study from the BRIDGE project, which has provided the opportunity for deep engagement with these issues through the concrete exploration and experimentation with technologically augmented practices of emergency response, we present insights from our interdisciplinary work aiming to make design and innovation projects ELSI-aware. Crucially, we have seen in our study a need for a shift from privacy by design towards designing for privacy, collaboration, trust, accessibility, ownership, transparency etc., acknowledging that these are emergent practices that we cannot control by design, but rather that we can help to design for—calling for approaches that allow to make ELSI issues explicit and addressable in design-time.

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Published in ISCRAM Proceedings https://iscram2015.uia.no/?p=1920