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  • Moral Anthropology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Traditional views suggest technology embeds values via designer intentions and functional properties.
  • These views render embedded values epistemically opaque and static, hindering value evolution.
  • Existing philosophical accounts struggle to explain how technological values change over time.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel framework, the Affordance Account of Value Embedding, addressing limitations of prior theories.
  • To reconceptualize how artifacts embody values, moving beyond designer intent.
  • To explore the practical implications for designing value-conscious technologies.

Main Methods:

  • Critique of existing philosophical accounts of value embedding in technology.
  • Development of the Affordance Account, conceptualizing affordances as response-dependent properties.
  • Interdisciplinary approach integrating moral anthropology and philosophy of technology.

Main Results:

  • Artefacts possess affordances, influencing user actions based on intrinsic and extrinsic properties.
  • These affordances are response-dependent, linking artifact properties to user responses and values.
  • The Affordance Account provides an epistemically clearer and dynamic model for understanding embedded values.

Conclusions:

  • Artefacts embody values through their affordances, demonstrating they are not value-neutral.
  • The Affordance Account offers a robust alternative for understanding and designing value-laden technologies.
  • This framework has significant implications for ethical technology design and development.