Value sensitive design of interactions with urbansim indicators

摘要: Around the United States and around world, people grapple with issues such as traffic jams, affordable housing, urban sprawl. Decisions whether to build a new freeway, expand transit service, or change land use regulations interact in complex ways have long-term consequences. At same time, stakeholders strongly held, often conflicting views about what will make city better place. I present my contributions work an developing interfaces for UrbanSim, large-scale simulation system that projects patterns of development periods twenty years more under different scenarios, inform deliberation consequences these decisions. My specific focus is design interactions indicators, which portray key results from UrbanSim. I colleagues draw Value Sensitive Design theory methodology proactively account human values indicators. In designing eye towards explicitly supported representativeness, fairness, support democratic society, we face several challenges, including responding interests diverse stakeholders, providing ready-to-hand documentation supports system's legitimation, balancing this relatively neutral information range advocacy positions, engaging informing citizens who may less expertise than planners UrbanSim their work. We address challenges tools interacting indicators: (1) ready-to-hand Technical Documentation factual indicators other stakeholders; (2) Indicator Perspectives intended provide platform political civic discourse; (3) Household Indicators help explore question, "How could decision affect me?" Our contributes example effective highly environment multiple having differing expertise.