Batya Friedman

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Batya Friedman
OccupationProfessor at the University of Washington
Known forValue 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 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.

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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]

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Selected publications

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