privacy research & “real world”design: is there an elephant in the

room?

lisa nathanalex garnett

CHI 2011 workshopon privacy for a networked world

(there is an elephant in this room)

theory {for,is,as} design

• Rotondo and Freier, 2010: designers don’t believe that “values” – in the abstract – can or should drive everyday design practice as described by Value Sensitive Design theory.

• we have lovely practice-community-bridging publications like interactions, but researchers and designers remain variously distant.

interventions, or interactions

• designers certainly do not claim not to care about values. thus we need to better understand how they tend to them.

• is an “ethnography of designers” appropriate?

• can a consideration of values be “embedded” in interaction design?