Quality, value(s) and choice: exploring deeper outcomes for HCI products

INTRODUCTION This workshop builds upon issues raised at the HCI2004 panel on "Values in HCI" [9]. In that panel, a tension was raised between dispassionately providing support to the design of products and services, regardless of the intended use, and the social responsibility of the scientist. Consequently, both personal values and the value that good analysis can bring to design were discussed. The technical challenges of HCI are great. However, it is a reasonable assertion that many members of the HCI community feel a need to do good for the world. But what kind of “good”, and how do we define “the world”? We feel that this implicit motivation has received too little explicit attention with HCI. This workshop will give centre stage to values: both the values that motivate the direction of our work and the value that we seek to deliver.