Elegant technologies for complex lives Socio-Digital Systems
(SDS) aims to use an understanding of human values to help to
change the technological landscape in the 21st century. Beyond
making us all more productive and efficient, we ask how we can
build technology to help us be more expressive, creative, and
reflective in our daily lives. Our group considers a broad range
of human values, aims to understand their complexity, and puts
them front and centre in technology development. An important
aspect of this endeavour is the construction of new technologies
that, in turn, we ourselves can shape. In so doing, we may
create new ways that help us to actively realise our aspirations
and desires, to engage with or disconnect from the world around
us, to remember our past or to forget it, to connect with others
or disengage from them. Important here are technologies which
ultimately make our lives richer, and which offer us choice and
flexibility in the things that we do. SDS does this through the
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