Dennis Gedge and Sarah Junaid, both engineers, have attended fPET 2023 and wrote a review of this conference. The reviews discuss the special track at fPET 2023 on value change, which was a collaboration between fPET and the ERC project 'Design for Changing Values'....
Book on interdisciplinary value theory by Steffen Steinert is out
The book on interdisciplinary value theory by Steffen Steinert is out. The book was written as part of the ValueChange project and it offers an interdisciplinary introduction to value theory. It reviews how researchers in four academic disciplines – psychology,...
How to deal with value change as a designer/engineer? Read it in our white paper
Designing for values – like well-being, justice and transparency – has been gaining increasing popularity in the past decades. But here is a fundamental challenge: although values are relatively stable, they do sometimes change over time. What types of value change exist, and how can engineers and designers deal with them? These are the main questions that we address in a white paper.
Call for participation for workshop on ‘Corpus Analysis, Conceptual Change, and Socially Disruptive Technologies’
This workshop aims to establish a community of philosophers and cognitive scientists who are interested in using corpus linguistics to investigate concept and value change in light of conceptually disruptive technologies. There is a limited number of open slots...
NWO take-off grant for further development of ValueMonitor
Ibo van de Poel and Tristan de Wildt have received a NWO take-off grant, allowing them to further develop ValueMonitor. ValueMonitor is a text-mining tool that can systematically identify gaps among values in technologies voiced in society, policy, and research and...
Special issue of Prometheus on designing for value change
Prometheus has just published a special issue on Designing for value change, with contributions from different team members as well as others. See here.
‘The Sociotechnical Systems Approach for Artificial Intelligence’ – Call for Papers
Olya Kudina and Ibo van de Poel are inviting contributions to a special issue on The Sociotechnical Systems Approach for Artificial Intelligence for the Journal Minds & Machines. Call for Papers & Description A sociotechnical systems approach is a...
‘Designing for Value Change’ – Call for Papers
Steffen Steinert and Tristan de Wildt of the Value Change Team, together with Steven Umbrello, are putting together a special issue on Designing for Value Change for the journal Prometheus. Call for Papers A key insight from the philosophy of technology is that...
‘Modelling Values in Agents, Technologies & Institutions’ – a Workshop at Social Simulation FesT 2021
Members of ValueChange team, together with a colleague form the University of Manchester are organizing a workshop on Modeling Values in Agents, Technology, and Institutions at the Social Simulation FesT 2021, on March 18, 2021. . Workshop Description Addressing new...
A Value Change Panel at the Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference
Several members of ValueChange team, together with a colleague from TU/e Eindhoven organized a Value Change panel at the International Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference at University of Twente, the Netherlands, November 5, 2020. Panel Description...