Our Friends Electric: Reflections on Advocacy and Design Research for the Voice Enabled Internet

Jon Rogers, Loraine Clarke, Martin Skelly, Nick Taylor, Pete Thomas, Michelle Thorne, Solana Larsen, Katarzyna Odrozek, Julia Kloiber, Peter Bihr, Anab Jain, Jon Arden, Maximilian Von Grafenstein

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Abstract

Emerging technologies---such as the voice enabled internet---present many opportunities and challenges for HCI research and society as a whole. Advocating for better, healthier implementations of these technologies will require us to communicate abstract values, such as trust, to an audience that ranges from the general public to technologists and even policymakers. In this paper, we show how a combination of film-making and product design can help to illustrate these abstract values. Working as part of a wider international advocacy campaign, Our Friends Electric focuses on the voice enabled internet, translating abstract notions of Internet Health into comprehensible digital futures for the relationship between our voice and the internet. We conclude with a call for designers of physical things to be more involved with the development of trust, privacy and security in this powerful emerging technological landscape.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of PublicationNew York, New York
PublisherACM
Pages1-13
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781450359702
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2019
Externally publishedYes
EventACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019: CHI’19 Workshop: HCI in China: Research Agenda, Education Curriculum, Industry Partnership, and Communities Building - Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 4 May 20199 May 2019
https://chi2019.acm.org/
http://chi2019.acm.org

Conference

ConferenceACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019
Abbreviated titleCHI 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period4/05/199/05/19
Internet address

Keywords

  • film
  • critical design
  • speculative design
  • product design
  • design research
  • advocacy
  • internet
  • voice
  • internet of things

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