Location
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
Event Website
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Start Date
7-1-2025 12:00 AM
End Date
10-1-2025 12:00 AM
Description
Advancements in information technologies and systems will dramatically alter the future(s) of work, and the serving or under-serving of human interests. How people are engaged in the design of technologies greatly influences whether and how human interests are addressed. These circumstances call for meaningful and substantive participation by those affected by information systems. In this paper we draw from Andrew Feenberg’s critical philosophy of technology to challenge a tacit reliance on determinant judgments from the categories and structures of today’s participatory methods and technologies. We argue that the development of reflective judgments from individuals’ previous and on-going experiences with technology opens technological design to a greater depth and breadth of human values and interests. To do so, greater lateral dialogue across people and stakeholders from experiences would make space for these reflective judgments, helping to generate technological designs that better serve human values and needs.
Recommended Citation
Chiasson, Mike and Davidson, Elizabeth, "Making Space for Reflective Judgments in Designing Technology Future(s)" (2025). Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2025 (HICSS-58). 3.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-58/os/theory_and_is/3
Making Space for Reflective Judgments in Designing Technology Future(s)
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
Advancements in information technologies and systems will dramatically alter the future(s) of work, and the serving or under-serving of human interests. How people are engaged in the design of technologies greatly influences whether and how human interests are addressed. These circumstances call for meaningful and substantive participation by those affected by information systems. In this paper we draw from Andrew Feenberg’s critical philosophy of technology to challenge a tacit reliance on determinant judgments from the categories and structures of today’s participatory methods and technologies. We argue that the development of reflective judgments from individuals’ previous and on-going experiences with technology opens technological design to a greater depth and breadth of human values and interests. To do so, greater lateral dialogue across people and stakeholders from experiences would make space for these reflective judgments, helping to generate technological designs that better serve human values and needs.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-58/os/theory_and_is/3