SEISAN KENKYU
Online ISSN : 1881-2058
Print ISSN : 0037-105X
ISSN-L : 0037-105X
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How engineering manages norms in its decision making?
Tomonari YASHIRO
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2020 Volume 72 Issue 5 Pages 341-344

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The process of defining something useful, as a premise of deployment of engineering, is not value-neutral but value-dependent. This article discusses on how ambiguousness of the depending norm could be problematic for healthy technology development and its dissemination. It suggests the design thinking process, where the proposal of design solution and critics by stakeholders are repeated until an acceptable set of design solution is available, could mitigate ill-structured/wicked problems. Tacit norm behind the critics could turn out to be explicit in this iteral processes.

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