Digital technologies have positively transformed society, but they have also
led to undesirable consequences not anticipated at the time of design or
development. We posit that insights into past undesirable consequences can help
researchers and practitioners gain awareness and anticipate potential adverse
effects. To test this assumption, we introduce BLIP, a system that extracts
real-world undesirable consequences of technology from online articles,
summarizes and categorizes them, and presents them in an interactive, web-based
interface. In two user studies with 15 researchers in various computer science
disciplines, we found that BLIP substantially increased the number and
diversity of undesirable consequences they could list in comparison to relying
on prior knowledge or searching online. Moreover, BLIP helped them identify
undesirable consequences relevant to their ongoing projects, made them aware of
undesirable consequences they "had never considered," and inspired them to
reflect on their own experiences with technology.

数字技术正面地改变了社会，但也导致了在设计或开发时未曾预料到的不良后果。我们假设对过去的不良后果的了解可以帮助研究者和从业人员提高意识并预见潜在的不良影响。为了测试这个假设，我们引入了 BLIP 系统，该系统从在线文章中提取技术的现实世界中的不良后果，对它们进行摘要和分类，并在一个交互式的基于网络的界面中展示。在两个用户研究中，我们和 15 位来自各个计算机科学学科的研究人员发现，与依靠以往知识或在线搜索相比，BLIP 大大增加了他们能够列举的不良后果的数量和多样性。此外，BLIP 帮助他们识别与他们正在进行的项目相关的不良后果，使他们意识到他们 “从未考虑过” 的不良后果，并激发他们反思自己对技术的经验。