Integrating morality into products and product design
Information Technology and Society, are deeply and irreversably
intertwined to an extend we could not have foreseen a few decades
ago. Information Technology enables human actors to extend their
abilities (e.g. out of home shopping, distant medical services),
provides new forms of interaction (e.g. 2nd life), etc. It has a profound impact on our values, and our values (should)
impact the way we shape technology. It, also, potentially threatens
some of our core values such privacy.
The DesignForValues research programme investigates the
relationship between various human practices and (information)
technology from a philosophical / moral perspective. It does so
with an eye on both theoretical and practical aspects: e.g. from
theoretical models for assessing technology to the development
of concrete technology safeguarding our privacy.
Its uses tools like modal logic, multi‐agent software systems, quality
function deployment to construct solutions to the challenges
new technologies pose.


