Description

The Value Sensitive Design Lab brings together faculty, students, and stakeholders in Washington state and beyond to engage human values in the design of tools and technology to support human flourishing. We are designers and researchers, thinkers and doers. The Lab contributes theory and methods for shaping technology with moral imagination.

Partners

UW Seattle, College of Engineering, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Security and Privacy Lab, Tech Policy Lab, UW Information Technology, Center for an Informed Public;

Design for Values (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Boston, MA), SDU UAS Center (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark), VASE – Value Sensitive Design in Higher Education (Aarhus University, Denmark), Wellbeing Technology Lab (University of Sydney, Australia)

Funders

The Value Sensitive Design Lab gratefully acknowledges the agencies, institutions, corporations, and individuals who have supported the work of the lab. Our funders include: The National Science Foundation, Grants IIS-1302709, IIS-1143966, CNS-0905384, IIS-0849270, IIS-0325035, EIA-0121326, IIS-0102558, SES-0096131, IIS-9911185, and IIS-0000567; Google Corporation; Intel Corporation; UW Center for Mind, Brain and Learning; and The Washington Research Foundation. Work on the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal project specifically has been supported by National Science Foundation Grants IIS-1302709, IIS-1143966, and IIS-0849270; Information School, University of Washington; Seattle University School of Law; Step One; UW Foundation; John and Virginia Meisenbach; and Young Oh. To all of you, our heartfelt appreciation.