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Legibility as a Design Principle: Surfacing Values in Sensing Technologies (September 2021)

Holly Robbins (Author)
Taylor Stone (Author)
John Bolte (Author)
Jeroen van den Hoven (Author)

Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 46
Issue: 5
Pages: 1104-1135

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243920975488

DOI: 10.1177/0162243920975488

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Medical technology Ethics, Medical Lungs--diseases, obstructive Medicine Technoscience; science and technology studies Design Sensors 21st century

This paper introduces the design principle of legibility as means to examine the epistemic and ethical conditions of sensing technologies. Emerging sensing technologies create new possibilities regarding what to measure, as well as how to analyze, interpret, and communicate said measurements. In doing so, they create ethical challenges for designers to navigate, specifically how the interpretation and communication of complex data affect moral values such as (user) autonomy. Contemporary sensing technologies require layers of mediation and exposition to render what they sense as intelligible and constructive to the end user, which is a value-laden design act. Legibility is positioned as both an evaluative lens and a design criterion, making it complimentary to existing frameworks such as value sensitive design. To concretize the notion of legibility, and understand how it could be utilized in both evaluative and anticipatory contexts, the case study of a vest embedded with sensors and an accompanying app for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is analyzed.

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