Alternate endings: using fiction to explore design futures
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2014-01
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Linehan, Conor
Kirman, Ben J.
Reeves, Stuart
Blythe, Mark A.
Tanenbaum, Joshua G.
Desjardins, Audrey
Wakkary, Ron
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Design research and practice within HCI is inherently oriented toward the future. However, the vision of the future described by HCI researchers and practitioners is typically utility-driven and focuses on the short term. It rarely acknowledges the potentially complex social and psychological long-term consequences of the technology artefacts produced. Thus, it has the potential to unintentionally cause real harm. Drawing on scholarship that investigates the link between fiction and design, this workshop will explore "alternate endings" to contemporary HCI papers. Attendees will use fictional narratives to envision long-term consequences of contemporary HCI projects, as a means for engaging the CHI community in a consideration of the values and implications of interactive technology.
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Values centered design , Science fiction , Design fiction , Ethics
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Linehan, C., Kirman, B. J., Reeves, S., Blythe, M. A., Tanenbaum, J. G., Desjardins, A. and Wakkary, R. (2014) 'Alternate endings: using fiction to explore design futures', Proceedings of the 2014 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 26 April – 1 May. doi:10.1145/2559206.2560472
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© 2014, the Authors. Publication rights licensed to ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the 2014 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560472