Technology design is a social and cultural practice (as well as a technical one). Thus, helping technologists design ethical systems requires more than creating technical ethical design tools; it also requires creating social and cultural infrastructures that can help support technologists to make ethical decisions.
Our lab works to imagine and create these new infrastructures which may include: new organizational practices, law and policy, supporting worker and community-led actions, or developing tools that consider the social and organizational contexts where technologies are developed.
We take an interdisciplinary approach to addressing these issues, though we most commonly draw on perspectives from design, science & technology studies (STS), critically-oriented human-computer interaction (HCI), and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW).
Our projects generally belong to at least one of three research areas:
- Studying tech workers’ ethics practices in organizational contexts
- Addressing values in design beyond the design process (particularly through law and policy)
- Design futuring techniques to consider values and ethics
The lab is led by Richmond Wong, Assistant Professor in the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
For more information, please contact Professor Wong.
Support
Some research projects in the lab have been supported by the National Science Foundation, Georgia Tech Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center, Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.