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,...
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.
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...
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...
Prometheus has just published a special issue on Designing for value change, with contributions from different team members as well as others. See here.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Prof. Ibo van de Poel has elected by The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences as leading researcher that helps engineers integrate such values as security, sustainability, privacy, wellbeing and fairness into their designs. Description The Royal Netherlands...