Human and value sensitive aspects of mobile app design: a Foucauldian perspective
Barn, Balbir 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7251-5033 and Barn, Ravinder
(2018)
Human and value sensitive aspects of mobile app design: a Foucauldian perspective.
Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 30th International Conference, CAiSE 2018, Tallin, Estonia, June 11-15, 2018, Proceedings.
In: CAiSE 2018 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 11-15 June 2018, Tallinn, Estonia.
ISBN 9783319915623.
ISSN 0302-9743
[Conference or Workshop Item]
(doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91563-0_7)
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Abstract
Value sensitive concerns remain relatively neglected by software design processes leading to potential failure of technology acceptance. By drawing upon an inter-disciplinary study that employed participatory design methods to develop mobile apps in the domain of youth justice, this paper examines a critical example of an unintended consequence that created user concerns around Focauldian concepts including power, authority, surveillance and governmentality. The primary aim of this study was to design, deploy and evaluate social technology that may help to promote better engagement between case workers and young people to help reduce recidivism, and support young people’s transition towards social inclusion in society. A total of 140 participants including practitioners (n=79), and young people (n=61) contributed to the data collection via surveys, focus groups and one-one interviews. The paper contributes an important theoretically located discussion around both how co-design is helpful in giving ‘voice’ to key stakeholders in the research process and observing the risk that competing voices may lead to tensions and unintended outcomes. In doing so, software developers are exposed to theories from social science that have significant impact on their products
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | Published as:Barn B.S., Barn R. (2018) Human and Value Sensitive Aspects of Mobile App Design: A Foucauldian Perspective. In: Krogstie J., Reijers H. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10816. Springer, Cham |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science |
| Item ID: | 24109 |
| Notes on copyright: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a paper published in [Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2018. The final authenticated version is available online at Springer at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91563-0_7 or http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319915623 |
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| Depositing User: | Balbir Barn |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2018 14:40 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 19:43 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/24109 |
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