Human and value sensitive aspects of mobile app design: a Foucauldian perspective
Conference paper
Barn, B. and Barn, R. 2018. Human and value sensitive aspects of mobile app design: a Foucauldian perspective. Krogstie, J. and Reijers, H. (ed.) CAiSE 2018: 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Tallinn, Estonia 11 - 15 Jun 2018 Cham Springer. pp. 103-118 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91563-0_7
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Human and value sensitive aspects of mobile app design: a Foucauldian perspective |
Authors | Barn, B. and Barn, R. |
Abstract | Value sensitive concerns remain relatively neglected by software design processes leading to potential failure of technology acceptance. By drawing upon an inter-disciplinary study that employed participatory design methods to develop mobile apps in the domain of youth justice, this paper examines a critical example of an unintended consequence that created user concerns around Focauldian concepts including power, authority, surveillance and governmentality. The primary aim of this study was to design, deploy and evaluate social technology that may help to promote better engagement between case workers and young people to help reduce recidivism, and support young people’s transition towards social inclusion in society. A total of 140 participants including practitioners (n=79), and young people (n=61) contributed to the data collection via surveys, focus groups and one-one interviews. The paper contributes an important theoretically located discussion around both how co-design is helpful in giving ‘voice’ to key stakeholders in the research process and observing the risk that competing voices may lead to tensions and unintended outcomes. In doing so, software developers are exposed to theories from social science that have significant impact on their products |
Keywords | Governmentality; Value sensitive design; Co-design |
Conference | CAiSE 2018: 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering |
Page range | 103-118 |
Proceedings Title | CAiSE 2018: Advanced Information Systems Engineering |
Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Editors | Krogstie, J. and Reijers, H. |
ISSN | 0302-9743 |
Electronic | 1611-3349 |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9783319915623 |
Publisher | Springer |
Place of publication | Cham |
Publication dates | |
02 Aug 2018 | |
Online | 17 May 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 11 Apr 2018 |
Accepted | 23 Feb 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a paper published in [Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2018. The final authenticated version is available online at Springer at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91563-0_7 or http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319915623 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91563-0_7 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000460420000007 |
Language | English |
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