Designing a Future Worth Wanting: Applying Virtue Ethics to HCI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02237v1
• Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:18:35 GMT
• Title: Designing a Future Worth Wanting: Applying Virtue Ethics to HCI
• Authors: Tim Gorichanaz
• Abstract summary: Out of the three major approaches to ethics, virtue ethics is uniquely well suited as a moral guide in the digital age. It focuses on the traits, situations and actions of moral agents, rather than on rules (as in deontology) or outcomes (consequentialism)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Out of the three major approaches to ethics, virtue ethics is uniquely well suited as a moral guide in the digital age, given the pace of sociotechnical change and the complexity of society. Virtue ethics focuses on the traits, situations and actions of moral agents, rather than on rules (as in deontology) or outcomes (consequentialism). Even as interest in ethics has grown within HCI, there has been little engagement with virtue ethics. To address this lacuna and demonstrate further opportunities for ethical design, this paper provides an overview of virtue ethics for application in HCI. It reviews existing HCI work engaging with virtue ethics, provides a primer on virtue ethics to correct widespread misapprehensions within HCI, and presents a deductive literature review illustrating how existing lines of HCI research resonate with the practices of virtue cultivation, paving the way for further work in virtue-oriented design.

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