Mapping justice as a plural and contested concept in human--computer interaction

2026-09-14

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本文通过引入一个包含六种正义概念的哲学框架，分析了四个案例，旨在促进人机交互领域对正义这一多元且有争议的概念进行更细致的理解。

Abstract

Human-computer interaction increasingly studies and promotes justice. Often, this work does not treat justice through a pluralistic lens Justice, however, is not one thing: political philosophy offers several well-established, mutually incompatible conceptions of it. To navigate these meanings, we draw on a map of justice, a philosophical framework identifying six distinct conceptions of justice situated throughout (Western) philosophical thought. We apply this framework to four cases that illustrate different approaches to social justice: the COMPAS system, food democracy, gentrification, and robotics. Our analysis shows that each case already reflects a position on the map, but more importantly, one might adapt the case to other conceptions as well, leading to very different systems and analyses. We discuss how HCI might engage more carefully with such contested concepts, and warn that without pluralistic understanding, academic discourse risks a spiral of silence.

Problem

• justice
• human-computer interaction
• pluralism
• political philosophy

Innovation

• pluralistic lens
• map of justice
• conceptions of justice
• social justice