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The envisioning cards: a toolkit for catalyzing humanistic and technical imaginations

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Batya Friedman,

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CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We introduce the Envisioning Cards - a versatile toolkit for attending to human values during design processes - and discuss their early use. Drawing on almost twenty years of work in value sensitive design, the Envisioning Cards are built upon a set of four envisioning criteria: stakeholders, time, values, and pervasiveness. Each card contains on one side a title and an evocative image related to the card theme; on the flip side, the card shows the envisioning criterion, elaborates on the theme, and provides a focused design activity. Reports from the field demonstrate use in a range of research and design activities including ideation, co-design, heuristic critique, and more.

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DOI:10.1145/2207676

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