Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric (Sep 2020)

Value-Sensitive Co-Design for Resilient Information Systems

  • Primiero Giuseppe,
  • Barn Balbir,
  • Barn Ravinder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2020-0032
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 63, no. 1
pp. 141 – 164

Abstract

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In Information Systems development, resilience has often been treated as a non-functional requirement and little or no work is aimed at building resilience in end-users through systems development. The question of how values and resilience (for the end-user) can be incorporated into the design of systems is an on-going research activity in user-centered design. In this paper we evaluate the relation of values and resilience within the context of an ongoing software development project and contribute a formal model of co-design based on a significant extension of Abstract Design Theory. The formal analysis provides a full and clear-cut definition of the co-design space, its objectives and processes. On the basis of both, we provide an abstract definition of resilient system (for the end-user). We conclude that value-sensitive co-design enforces better resilience in end-users.

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