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'....
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.
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...
We invite you to a one-day workshop to get familiarized with ValueMonitor. ValueMonitor is an easy-to-use tool for empirical investigations of values and value change in text corpora (e.g., scientific articles, newspaper articles). It will take place on March 10th, 2023, from 9.30 to 16.30, in Delft. The number of places for the workshop is limited to ensure that we can help you effectively with the usage of the tool. Registration closes on January 20th and can be done by sending an email to ValueMonitor@valuechange.eu.
Prometheus has just published a special issue on Designing for value change, with contributions from different team members as well as others. See here.
During the Machines of Change: Robots, AI and Value Change workshop, to be held from 1-3 February 2022 at Delft University of Technology, we will explore how the deployment of AI and robots leads to value change and how we can study value change, as a phenomenon, via these technologies. You can now register if you are interested in participating. Key note speakers are Arianna Betti, John Danaher and Bertram F. Malle. The full program for this workshop, with all abstracts of the papers presented, is now also available.
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...
The Value Change team is organizing an international online workshop series on Explaining Value Change. On multiple dates in April and May 2021, international experts will discuss fundamental questions regarding our understanding of the phenomenon of value change....
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...