Reflective Design

Type Conference Paper Author Phoebe Sengers Author Kirsten Boehner Author Shay David Author Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye URL http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1094562.1094569 Series CC '05 Place New York, NY, USA Publisher ACM Pages 49–58 ISBN 1-59593-203-8 Date 2005 DOI 10.1145/1094562.1094569 Accessed 2015-09-25 20:20:47 Library Catalog ACM Digital Library Abstract As computing moves into every aspect of our daily lives, the values and assumptions that underlie our technical practices may unwittingly be propagated throughout our culture. Drawing on existing critical approaches in computing, we argue that reflection on unconscious values embedded in computing and the practices that it supports can and should be a core principle of technology design. Building on a growing body of work in critical computing, reflective design combines analysis of the ways in which technologies reflect and perpetuate unconscious cultural assumptions, with design, building, and evaluation of new computing devices that reflect alternative possibilities. We illustrate this approach through two design case studies. Proceedings Title Proceedings of the 4th Decennial Conference on Critical Computing: Between Sense and Sensibility