Richmond Wong, Deirdre Mulligan, John Chuang
This project explores how science fiction and design fiction can be used to explore possible futures and elicit values surrounding emerging sensing technologies. In particular, we focus on values and issues related to privacy.
DESIGN FICTIONS
Inspired by technology trends, and representations of technology in the media and science fiction, we created a set of design fictions. Design fictions are a mix between science fact, science fiction, and design. These conceptual designs suggest speculative or alternate future worlds that imagine what the future might be like in order to help generate discussions about futures we want to see (and those that we want to avoid).
By creating design proposals that explore connections between a fictional world and our present (and future) realities, we are able to explore, expand, and articulate a range of social, technical, and legal configurations of the future. We contribute a set of design fiction proposals, a case study of a design project that use design fiction to engage issues of privacy and surveillance, and we provide a need approach to creating design fiction – by using science fiction texts as a starting point for design.
PUBLICATIONS
Richmond Y. Wong, Nick Merrill, John Chuang. (2018). When BCIs Have APIs: Design Fictions of Everyday Brain-Computer Interface Adoption. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’18). [PDF] [Design Fictions]
Richmond Y. Wong, Ellen Van Wyk and James Pierce. (2017). Real-Fictional Entanglements: Using Science Fiction and Design Fiction to Interrogate Sensing Technologies. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’17). [PDF] [Design Workbook Excerpts]
Richmond Y. Wong, Deirdre K, Mulligan, Ellen Van Wyk, James Pierce and John Chuang. (2017). Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, 2, Article 111 (November 2017), 27 pages. [PDF] [Design Workbook Excerpts]
Richmond Y. Wong, Deirdre K. Mulligan, and John Chuang. (2017). Using science fiction texts to surface user reflections on privacy. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp ’17). 213-216. [PDF] [Poster (PDF)]
BLOG POSTS
Using Design Fiction and Science Fiction to Interrogate Privacy in Sensing Technologies
Engaging Technologists to Reflect on Privacy Using Design Workbooks