Building a "-Sensitive Design" Methodology from Political Philosophies or Ideologies
This addresses the need for normative grounding in value-based design methodologies for technology designers, though it appears incremental as an extension of existing approaches like Value Sensitive Design and Capability Sensitive Design.
The paper tackles the problem of integrating human values into technology design by proposing a meta-framework called -Sensitive Design (-SD) to embed political or ideological values as norms, exemplified through Dependency-Sensitive Design (DSD) based on Kittay's critiques.
Value-based approaches such as Value Sensitive Design (VSD) enable technology designers to engage with and integrate human values in technology through a tripartite methodology of conceptual, empirical, and technical investigations. However, VSD contains pitfalls in both translating values to requirements and a lack of normative grounding, leading to adaptations such as Jacobs' Capability Sensitive Design (CSD). Inspired by CSD and extensions of the design approach, we propose the concept of creating -Sensitive Design (-SD); a meta-framework to embed various political or ideological values as norms in a design research process. We exemplify this through \emph{Dependency}-Sensitive Design (DSD), combining ideas from Kittay's critiques of classical liberal theory within a practical VSD framework. Finally, we push for further work combining philosophy and design in areas beyond CSD and DSD.