Anti-Heroes: An Ethics-focused Method for Responsible Designer Intentions
<|reference_start|>Anti-Heroes: An Ethics-focused Method for Responsible Designer Intentions: HCI and design researchers have designed, adopted, and customized a range of ethics-focused methods to inscribe values and support ethical decision making in a design process. In this work-in-progress, we add to this body of resources, constructing a method that surfaces the designer's intentions in an action-focused way, encouraging consideration of both manipulative and value-centered roles. Anti-Heroes is a card deck that allows a designer to playfully take on pairs of manipulative (Anti-Hero) and value-centered (Hero) roles during design ideation/conceptualization, evaluation, and ethical dialogue. The card deck includes twelve cards with Anti-Hero and Hero faces, along with three action cards that include reflective questions for different play modes. Alongside the creation of the Anti-Hero card deck, we describe the evaluation and iteration of the card deck through playtesting sessions with four groups of three design students. We propose implications of Anti-Heros for technology and design education and practice.<|reference_end|>
@article{mehta2024anti-heroes:,
    title={Anti-Heroes: An Ethics-focused Method for Responsible Designer
  Intentions},
    author={Shikha Mehta, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray, Ritika Gairola},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03674},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.03674},
    primaryClass={cs.HC}
}