Batya Friedman

Batya Friedman
Education	PhD
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Professor
Employer	University of Washington Information School
Known for	Value Sensitive Design (VSD)
Website	https://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/profile/batya

Batya Friedman is an American professor in the University of Washington Information School. She is also an adjunct professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and adjunct professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering, where she directs the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab.^[1] She received her PhD in learning sciences from the University of California, Berkeley School of Education in 1988, and has an undergraduate degree from Berkeley in computer science and mathematics.

Work

Friedman is known for pioneering value sensitive design (VSD), an approach to account for human values in the design of information systems.

Currently, Friedman is the Co-Director of Value Sensitive Design Lab, and was the former Co-Director of the UW Technology Policy Lab.^[2]

Awards

• 2021 ACM Fellow^[3]
• "Gilles Hondius Fellow" - Technical University of Delft, 2020^[4]
• Honorary Doctorate - Technical University of Delft, 2020^[5]
• ACM SIGCHI Academy - ACM SIGCHI, 2019^[6]
• Induction into Membership - ACM SIGCHI Academy, 2019^[7]
• Social Impact Award - ACM SIGCHI, 2012^[8]
• Multi-disciplinary Privacy Paper Award, 2010^[9]
• Multi-disciplinary Privacy Paper Award, Honorable Mention, 2010^[10]
• Best Paper Award, Organizational Systems Track - HCISS, 2002^[1]
• TAP: ACM list of notable female computer scientists, 1997^[1]

Selected publications

• Friedman, B., & Hendry, D. G. (2019). Value sensitive design: shaping technology with moral imagination. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262039536
• Friedman, B. (2008). Value Sensitive Design. In D. Schuler, Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (pp. 366–368). The MIT Press ISBN 9780262195799
• Friedman, B., & Hendry, D. (2012). The envisioning cards: a toolkit for catalyzing humanistic and technical imaginations. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1145–1148.ISBN 978-1-4503-1015-4^[11]
• Friedman, B. (2004). Value Sensitive Design. In W. S. Bainbridge (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human-computer Interaction (pp. 769–774). Berkshire Publishing Group. ISBN 9781591405627
• Friedman, B., & Kahn, P. H. (2003). Human values, ethics, and design. In A. Sears, J. A. Jacko, & S. Garfinkel, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications (2nd ed., pp. 1241–1266). CRC Press.^[12]
• Friedman, B., & Kahn, P. H. (2000). New directions: a value-sensitive design approach to augmented reality. Proceedings of DARE 2000 on Designing Augmented Reality Environments, 163–164. ISBN 978-1-4503-7326-5^[13]
• Friedman, B. (1996, December 1). Value-sensitive design. ACM interactions, 3(6), 16–23.^[14]
• Friedman, B., & Kahn, P. H. (1992). Human agency and responsible computing: Implications for computer system design. Journal of Systems and Software, 17(1), 7–14. ^[15]

References

1. "Batya Friedman
   Professor
   [e-mail]". ischool.uw.edu. Archived from the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
2. "The Lab". VSD Lab. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
3. "ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation". Association for Computing Machinery. January 19, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
4. Besteman, Marit (2020-02-27). "Prof. Dr. Batya Friedman First "Gilles Hondius Fellow"". Delft Design for Values Institute. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
5. Jos, Wassink (9 January 2020). "In celebration of its birthday, TU Delft honours designers with long term visions". Delta. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04.
6. "2019 SIGCHI Awards". ACM SIGCHI. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
7. "Friedman, Wobbrock among 3 UW faculty to earn top honor in HCI". ischool.uw.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
8. "2012 SIGCHI Awards". ACM SIGCHI. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
9. "Dr. Friedman, colleagues win Multidisciplinary Privacy award". ischool.uw.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
10. "The 2011 CPDP Multidisciplinary Privacy Award – Security and Privacy Research Lab". February 2011. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
11. Friedman, Batya; Hendry, David (2012-05-05). "The envisioning cards". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '12. Austin, Texas, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1145–1148. doi:10.1145/2207676.2208562. ISBN 978-1-4503-1015-4. S2CID 24059203.
12. Jacko, Julie A. (2012). Human-Computer Interaction Handbook : Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications (Third ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4398-2944-8. OCLC 793193195.
13. Friedman, Batya; Kahn, Peter H. (2000-04-01). "New directions". Proceedings of DARE 2000 on Designing augmented reality environments. DARE '00. Elsinore, Denmark: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 163–164. doi:10.1145/354666.354694. ISBN 978-1-4503-7326-5. S2CID 10729495.
14. Friedman, Batya (1996-12-01). "Value-sensitive design". Interactions. 3 (6): 16–23. doi:10.1145/242485.242493. ISSN 1072-5520. S2CID 9249313.
15. Friedman, Batya; Kahn, Peter H. (1992-01-01). "Human agency and responsible computing: Implications for computer system design". Journal of Systems and Software. Computer Ethics. 17 (1): 7–14. doi:10.1016/0164-1212(92)90075-U. ISSN 0164-1212.

External links

• Batya Friedman publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Friedman's UW faculty profile page