  Over the past decade, HCI researchers, design researchers, and practitioners
have increasingly addressed ethics-focused issues through a range of
theoretical, methodological and pragmatic contributions to the field. While
many forms of design knowledge have been proposed and described, we focus
explicitly on knowledge that has been codified as "methods," which we define as
any supports for everyday work practices of designers. In this paper, we
identify, analyze, and map a collection of 63 existing ethics-focused methods
intentionally designed for ethical impact. We present a content analysis,
providing a descriptive record of how they operationalize ethics, their
intended audience or context of use, their "core" or "script," and the means by
which these methods are formulated, articulated, and languaged. Building on
these results, we provide an initial definition of ethics-focused methods,
identifying potential opportunities for the development of future methods to
support design practice and research.
