title: Developing Tools to Counteract and Prevent Suicide Bomber Incidents: A Case Study in Value Sensitive Design.
abstract: Developers and designers make all sorts of moral decisions throughout an innovation project. In this article, we describe how teams of developers and designers engaged with ethics in the early phases of innovation based on case studies in the SUBCOP project (SUBCOP stands for 'SUicide Bomber COunteraction and Prevention'). For that purpose, Value Sensitive Design (VSD) will be used as a reference. Specifically, we focus on the following two research questions: How can researchers/developers learn about users' perspectives and values during the innovation process? and How can researchers/developers take into account these values, and related design criteria, in their decision-making during the innovation process? Based on a case study of several innovation processes in this project, we conclude the researchers/developers involved are able to do something similar to VSD (without them knowing about VSD or calling it 'VSD'), supported by relatively simple exercises in the project, e.g., meetings with potential end-users and discussions with members of the Ethical Advisory Board of the project. Furthermore, we also found-possibly somewhat counterintuitively-that a commercial, with its focus on understanding and satisfying customers' needs, can promote VSD.
authors.affiliation: Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. l.m.m.royakkers@tue.nl.
authors.forename: Lambèr
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Royakkers
authors.affiliation: Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Anna van Buerenplein 1, 2595 DA, The Hague, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Steen
mesh_terms: D054042:Bombs; D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
keywords: Ethics; Suicide bomber; Terrorism; Value Sensitive Design