Batya Friedman

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. 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.

Awards 2021 ACM Fellow "Gilles Hondius Fellow" - Technical University of Delft, 2020 Honorary Doctorate - Technical University of Delft, 2020 ACM SIGCHI Academy - ACM SIGCHI, 2019 Induction into Membership - ACM SIGCHI Academy, 2019 Social Impact Award - ACM SIGCHI, 2012 Multi-disciplinary Privacy Paper Award, 2010 Multi-disciplinary Privacy Paper Award, Honorable Mention, 2010 Best Paper Award, Organizational Systems Track - HCISS, 2002 Friedman, B. (2004). Value Sensitive Design. In W. S. Bainbridge (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human-computer Interaction (pp. 769–774). Berkshire Publishing Group. 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. 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. Friedman, B. (1996, December 1). Value-sensitive design. ACM interactions, 3(6), 16–23. 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.