Batya Friedman, a professor in the Information School, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from in Delft, Netherlands.
The honor was one of two given to researchers who “symbolize new perceptions in design” during , the Dutch school’s 178th anniversary celebration, on Jan. 10. Friedman gave a keynote lecture during the event’s Program Design for Values .
Friedman is founder and co-director, with iSchool colleague David Hendry, of the UW’s . The two also co-wrote the 2019 book “.”
Value sensitive design, the two , “brings together theory, methods and applications for a design process that engages human values at every stage.”
In the ceremony, Delft professor Ibo van de Poel praised Friedman as a pioneer: “In 1996, you for the first time used the term value sensitive design in a publication … Now, 20 years later the approach has been adopted world-wide.”
Watch a of the Dies Natalis event (Friedman appears at about the 55:35 mark).