Alternate endings: Using fiction to explore design futures

Conor Linehan; Ben Kirman; Ron Wakkary; Audrey Desjardins; Theresa Jean Tanenbaum; Mark Blythe; Stuart Reeves

doi:10.1145/2559206.2560472

Alternate endings: Using fiction to explore design futures

Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Ron Wakkary, Audrey Desjardins, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Mark Blythe, Stuart Reeves

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2014
Subtitle of host publication	One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, United States
Publisher	ACM
Pages	45-48
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781450324748
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560472
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2014
Event	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014 - Toronto, ON, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto, ON
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14

Keywords

Design fiction
Ethics
Science fiction
Values centered design

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Linehan, C., Kirman, B., Wakkary, R., Desjardins, A., Tanenbaum, T. J., Blythe, M., & Reeves, S. (2014). Alternate endings: Using fiction to explore design futures. In CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 45-48). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560472

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Linehan C, Kirman B, Wakkary R, Desjardins A, Tanenbaum TJ, Blythe M et al. Alternate endings: Using fiction to explore design futures. In CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, United States: ACM. 2014. p. 45-48. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2559206.2560472

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