Peer-reviewed article
Conducting Socially Aware and Value Oriented Investigations: a Case Study on the Violence Against Children and Adolescents
Deógenes Pereira da Silva Junior, M. Cecília C. Baranauskas, Roberto Pereira ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper describes a research methodology for understanding violence against children and adolescents in Brazil through a value-oriented design approach. The researchers identified 58 stakeholders in the problem domain and analyzed their perspectives to characterize 60 challenges related to violence and 31 potential solutions. The work produced 43 value-oriented requirements to guide the design of technological tools to address violence against children.
Key points
- 58 stakeholders were identified in the violence against children problem domain
- 60 distinct challenges of violence impact were documented
- 31 solution proposals were mapped to address identified challenges
- 43 value-oriented requirements were identified for technological solutions
- The study used Socially Aware Design approach incorporating stakeholder values into problem characterization
Limitations
This is a descriptive methodology paper that does not evaluate the effectiveness of any actual intervention or solution. It cannot tell us whether the identified requirements lead to technological solutions that reduce violence against children, nor does it measure outcomes for affected children.
Abstract
In challenging social contexts of technology design, such as those involving fighting the violence against children and adolescents, the consideration of human values is critical, as they influence people's social and cultural lives. Considering values when understanding a social problem is not a trivial activity due to the difficulty of working with abstract concepts, the complexity of people's lives, and the lack of artifacts and recommendations to support designers in this task. Drawing on the Socially Aware Design approach, this paper describes the use of value-oriented artifacts to understand the problem and to identify requirements for the design of a computational solution in this context. As a result, the problem of violence against children is characterized in a socially-aware manner: 58 stakeholders were identified in the problem domain, which led to an analysis of 60 challenges of the violence impact and of 31 proposals of solutions were mapped to face these challenges. Stakeholder’s values in the fight against violence context were identified, which enabled the identification of 43 value-oriented requirements for potential technological solutions for the context.