Over the past decade, HCI researchers and practitioners have increasingly addressed ethics-focused issues through a range of theoretical, methodological, and pragmatic contributions to the field. While many forms of design knowledge have been proposed and described, we focus explicitly on knowledge that has been codified as “methods,” which we define as structured supports for everyday work practices of designers. In this article, we identify, analyze, and map a collection of 63 existing methods intentionally designed for ethical impact.
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Surveying a Landscape of Ethics-Focused Design Methods
This article identifies, analyze, and map a collection of 63 existing methods intentionally designed for ethical impact, providing an initial definition of ethics-focused methods and identifying potential opportunities for the development of future methods to support ethical design practice.