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Title:
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THE VALUE OF VALUE IDENTIFICATION IN WEB APPLICATIONS |
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Author(s):
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Roberto Pereira, M. Cecília C. Baranauskas, Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-01-2 |
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Editors:
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Bebo White, Pedro Isaías and Flávia Maria Santoro |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Values in design, Social Software, Organizational Semiotics, culture |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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37 |
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Last Page:
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44 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Every technology triggers changes when it is inserted in an environment. Understanding the role of human values in technology design is a key factor for the development of technologies that make sense to people and do not produce side effects that harm them. Applications publicly available on the Web, notably the so-called social software, are worldwide diffused and used, generating far-reaching and unforeseen consequences. The explicit concern on values is not a common practice in technology design, in part, due to the lack of informed methods that support designers in this subject. In this paper, we present the Value Comparison Table, an artifact that supports designers in a value-oriented analysis of social software. A case study illustrates the use of this artifact to compare four different web applications regarding the values they promote or inhibit according to the way they were designed. The Value Comparison Table showed to be a promising artifact for supporting designers in the complex scenario of designing value aware technologies. |
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