Write a short research paper(350-450 words) for a peer-reviewed research paper that pertains to the week’s assigned reading. This will be a detailed summary of the research paper and what you gained from the research. Each week, you will find an article/peer-reviewed research paper that pertains to the week’s assignment. If you have a difficult time, Google Scholar is a wonderful location to find these types of articles:
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ITS 832 CHAPTER 8
VALUE SENSITIVE DESIGN OF COMPLEX PRODUCT
SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN A
GLOBAL ECONOMY DR. JORDON SHAW
INTRODUCTION
• Complex Technology
• Smart Meters in the Netherlands
• Smart Meters as Complex Products
• Values in the Design of Technical Artifacts
• Conclusion
COMPLEX TECHNOLOGY
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Common in today’s society
Many basic service infrastructures
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Collection of many smaller systems
Technology is more than hardware and software
• Implementing technology always has impact
• To the surrounding environment
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Many stakeholders
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Tech development driven by stakeholder needs
Value sensitive design (VSD)
• Incorporates impact on stakeholders
SMART METERS IN THE NETHERLANDS
SMART METERS IN THE NETHERLANDS
• Early smart meters were developed in the 1980s and 1990s
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The Netherlands identified benefits
• Energy savings
• Lower utility bills
• Consumers were not included in research
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Consumer concerns were not taken into account
Public resistance led to a long delay
• Required modification and marketing
SMART METERS AS COMPLEX PRODUCTS
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Complex system characteristics
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Systematic
Multiple interactions
Nondecomposable
Competing standards
Actor or Stakeholder analysis
Networks of stakeholders
• Standards organizations
VALUES IN THE DESIGN OF TECHNICAL ARTIFACTS
• Smart meters and Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS)
• Overlapping technologies
• Some shared development milestones
• Value drives development and
• acceptance Value sensitive design (VSD)
• Focus is moral and political implications
• VSD in Smart meter design
SUMMARY
• Complex systems
• Implementation impacts society
• Stakeholders are often unable to appreciate full impact
• Ignoring all stakeholders can delay implementation
• Smart meters in the Netherlands is a classic example
ITS 832 CHAPTER 7
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR POLICY MAKING
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
DR. JORDON SHAW
INTRODUCTION
• Policy making
• Assessment methodology
• Tools summary
• Conclusion
POLICY MAKING
• Political visions -> programs and actions
• Purpose is to change the real world
• Multidisciplinary field
• ICT offers opportunities to modernize policy making
• Goals
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Better understand reality
Increase stakeholder engagement
Respond within tighter timeframes
Provide higher quality deliverables
ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY
• Identification
• Initial search – targeted
• Expanded search – general
• Select and read scholarly papers
• Follow references from scholarly papers
• Categorization
• 11 logical groups
• Comparative analysis
• Conceptualization
TOOLS CATEGORIES
• Visualization
• Argumentation
• eParticipation
• Opinion mining
• Simulation
• Serious games
• Tools specifically designed for policy makers
• Persuasive
• Social network analysis (SNA)
• Big data analytics
• Semantics and linked data
SUMMARY
• Examined 75 tools grouped into 11 categories
• Focus on 3 main areas of policy making
• Main activities
• Stage of the policy cycle
• Stakeholder types
• Appendix
• Links to many tools discussed in the paper
• Takeaway
• Research methods employed