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

Blythe, Mark

Desjardins, Audrey

Kirman, Ben

Linehan, Conor

Reeves, Stuart

Tanenbaum, Joshua

Wakkary, Ron

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Workshop Proposal: Alternate Endings: Using Fiction to Explore Design FuturesTopic and rationale Inherent in the design of all technology is a speculative story told by the designer about the future in which that technology exists and operates. The striking feature of the future imagined by HCI researchers and practitioners, is that it is often simplistic, short term, and focused on utility. It rarely acknowledges the potential for complex, long-term, social and psychological consequences of technology development. In recent years, approaches such as reflective design, value centered design and critical design have been proposed as methods for eliciting more critical reflections on the implications of interactive technology. However, these approaches have had little effect on mainstream HCI literature, and ethics, values, and critical analysis remain a niche concern of the HCI community. Interestingly, recent years have also seen much discussion of how speculative fiction influences the work of technology designers. For example, science fiction narratives and design fictions capture the imaginations of designers, and have often been deeply influential on their designs. Thus, we propose the use of fiction as a means for engaging designers in considerations of not only the creative potential of their work, but also the long term social and psychological Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre, University of Lincoln, UK {clinehan; bkirman}@lincoln.ac.uk Mark Blythe School of Design, Northumbria University, UK Mark.blythe@northumbria.ac.uk Stuart Reeves Mixed Reality Lab, School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK stuart@tropic.org.uk Audrey Desjardins, Joshua Tanenbaum, Ron Wakkary School of Interactive Arts and Technology Simon Fraser University, Canada {adesjard; joshuat; rwakkary}@sfu.ca consequences. Thus, this workshop will explore questions such as:  Can fiction engage designers in more criticalexamination of their own practices?  How can we enable designers to draw on fiction asa resource?  Are there identifiable benefits to the prevailingutilitarian HCI approach to envisioning the future? Expected participants The journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing recently published a special issue on science fiction. The journal Design Futures recently published a special issue on design fiction. MIT Media Lab now offers a class entitled “Science Fiction to Science Fabrication.” This workshop is timely and of interest to a significant HCI audience and yet no workshop at CHI has previously addressed this topic. The workshop aims to bring together interested academics from HCI, computer science, design and humanities to consider how critical, reflective and literary practices can help designers envision the long-term social and psychological consequences of interactive technology. In a challenging, interactive and playful workshop, participants will collaboratively write alternate endings for well-known HCI scenarios and papers. The intention is to engage not only those already interested in critical approaches to design, but to engage mainstream HCI researchers in more critical considerations of their work.  We will accept submissions in two forms. Option 1 is a standard 2-4 pages ACM extended abstract format position paper, where authors discuss how design fiction relates to their own practice. Option 2 uses a similar format but for contributions that, themselves, are short works of design fiction. Authors are particularly encouraged to explore the long-term consequences of their own research projects. Organisers Conor Linehan and Ben Kirman are both Lecturers at the Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre, where their research explores the design of technology for facilitating provocative and critical experiences. Mark Blythe is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Design at Northumbria University. He is an ethnographer with a background in literary and critical theory. Stuart Reeves is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham’s Mixed Reality Lab. His work primarily explores the routine and practical ways in which technology is used or performed with in public and semi-public environments.  Ron Wakkary is a Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University, where he established the Everyday Design Studio. Audrey Desjardins is a PhD student at SIAT, Simon Fraser University. Her interests focus Everyday Design, sustainable interaction design, the DIY and Maker movement and design fictions. Joshua Tanenbaum is a PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University, whose work includes research into Interactive Narrative, Method Acting, Maker and DIY cultures, and design fiction. His work explores science fictional scenarios through the creation of diegetic prototypes. Program Committee The workshop will have an international program committee, including both HCI and humanities researchers, will provide expert advice, participate in the workshop, and help to establish an ongoing community for HCI research in this area:  Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln Dan O’Hara, Birmingham City University Luke Robert Mason, Birmingham City University Madeline Ashbey, practicing science fiction writer Murray Goulden, University of Nottingham Lisa P. Nathan, University of British ColumbiaConducting the workshop  We propose a one-day workshop. Before: This workshop will provide the focal point for an inter-disciplinary conversation on the use of fiction as a resource for exploring ethics and values in the design of interactive technology. We will create a blog and twitter account and regularly post relevant links in order to publicise the workshop. Before the event, participants and organisers will be encouraged to post comments and short design fictions to the blog. The task on the day of the workshop will be given a specific focus (e.g. care for the elderly in 2050) and this theme will be decided through discussion on the blog. Accepted papers will be posted to the blog in advance of the workshop. A list of relevant publications will also be maintained on the blog. During: We will facilitate an interactive, challenging, and playful workshop. Our activity involves collaboratively writing speculative “alternate endings” for well-known and influential CHI scenarios and papers. The day will begin with a short keynote from Toronto-based science fiction writer Madeline Ashbey on the process of writing design fiction. Attendees and organisers will then be split into groups. Card sorting will be used as a playful brainstorming activity for each group, matching narratives from popular science fiction films with contemporary research papers. Those groups will then work to draft short fictions that explore long-term consequences of well-known HCI scenarios and papers.  Guidance on structuring those stories will be provided by the guest speaker and workshop organisers. The day will conclude with critical discussions based on the themes raised in the fictions generated, as well as a broader consideration of fiction as a resource for engaging in critical analyses of interaction design. In addition, the workshop will continue the discussion on critical practices in HCI that has emerged from the past number of CHI conferences. After: Following this workshop we will prepare: • A poster for the spotlight on workshops session.• A workshop report for ACM Interactions Magazine.• An edited book exploring fiction as a resource forunderstating ethics in technology design.After the workshop we will update the blog to reflect the workshop outcomes. Both the materials submitted before the workshop and the stories generated during the event will be posted. We will continue to use the blog as a basis for ongoing discussion and community building activities.  

Alternate Endings: Using Fiction to Explore Design Futures

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Kirman, B.

Reeves, S.

Blythe, M.A.

Tanenbaum, J.

Desjardins, A.

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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

Kirman, Ben J.

Blythe, Mark A.

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UCC Library and UCC researchers have made this item openly available.Please let us know how this has helped you. Thanks!Title Alternate endings: using fiction to explore design futuresAuthor(s) Linehan, Conor; Kirman, Ben J.; Reeves, Stuart; Blythe, Mark A.;Tanenbaum, Joshua G.; Desjardins, Audrey; Wakkary, RonPublication date 2014-01Original citation Linehan, C., Kirman, B. J., Reeves, S., Blythe, M. A., Tanenbaum, J. G.,Desjardins, A. and Wakkary, R. (2014) 'Alternate endings: using fictionto explore design futures', Proceedings of the 2014 CHI Conference onHuman Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 26April – 1 May. doi:10.1145/2559206.2560472Type of publication Conference itemLink to publisher'sversionhttp://chi2014.acm.org/proceedingshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560472Access to the full text of the published version may require asubscription.Rights © 2014, the Authors. Publication rights licensed to ACM. This is theauthor's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use.Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record waspublished in Proceedings of the 2014 CHI Conference on HumanFactors in Computing Systems:https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560472Item downloadedfromhttp://hdl.handle.net/10468/6502Downloaded on 2021-11-27T06:42:49Z Alternate Endings: Using Fiction to Explore Design Futures  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. Author Keywords Values Centered Design; Science Fiction; Design Fiction; Ethics. ACM Classification Keywords H.5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous.  Introduction Inherent in the design of all technology is a speculative story told by the designer about the future in which Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.   Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).  CHI 2014, Apr 26 - May 01 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM 978-1-4503-2474-8/14/04. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560472        Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre University of Lincoln, UK {clinehan; bkirman}@lincoln.ac.uk  Mark Blythe School of Design, Northumbria University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK mark.blythe@northumbria.ac.uk  Stuart Reeves Mixed Reality Lab School of Computer Science University of Nottingham stuart@tropic.org.uk  Ron Wakkary,  Audrey Desjardins,  Joshua Tanenbaum School of Interactive Arts and Technology Simon Fraser University, Canada {rwakkary; adesjard; joshuat@sfu.ca}@ sfu.ca   that technology exists and operates. In some rare cases (i.e., [24]), designers describe in some detail the fictional world for which they are designing, in order to explain and justify the long-term goals of their work. More commonly, evidence of a designer’s envisioning must be sought through close reading of their papers (see [1][7]). Either way, the striking feature of the future imagined by HCI researchers and practitioners is that it is often simplistic, short term, and focused on utility. It rarely acknowledges the potential for complex, long-term, social and psychological consequences of technology development. We propose using fiction as a means for engaging designers in considerations of the complexities for their work. Thus, this workshop will explore questions such as:  Can fiction engage designers in more critical examination of their own practices?  How can we enable designers to draw on fiction as a resource?  Are there identifiable benefits to the prevailing utilitarian HCI approach to envisioning the future?  Background There has long been a productive relationship between fiction and the design of new technologies. For example, in the 1960s, the television show Star Trek envisioned personal communicators that flipped open, which provided inspiration for one of the most successful early mobile phone designs: the Motorola StarTAC [19]. A more recent example is the treatment of gestural and embodied interaction in the science fiction film Minority Report, which drew on contemporary HCI research into multi-touch interfaces and re-presented it in a way that catalyzed the imagination of the general public [10][2]. There has been much interest recently in understanding fiction in design, focusing particularly on “design fictions.”  The term was coined by Sterling in his 2005 book Shaping Things [20], where he described it as something similar to science fiction, but different because it “made more sense”. Recently he offered a formal definition, as  “the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change.” [21] A recent special issue of the journal Digital Creativity [6] sought to provide a taxonomy of design fiction. This included work like Sterling’s that draws directly on science fiction, but also work which draws on near future fictions such as that of William Gibson. This work, like critical design [8], is often provocative and its intent is subversive. But there are also corporate design fictions by companies like Google and Microsoft, which portray comfortable futures in reassuring short films [15][16].   Within HCI there has been much discussion of how science fiction, and other types of speculative fiction, influences the work of technology designers [1][2]. There is also a very large body of work in HCI on the use of fictional narrative in the form of personas and scenarios. Short fictional vignettes have long been used to summarise findings from user studies and to illustrate potential technologies (e.g.[4]). Often users in such scenarios were little more than names, and Cooper [5] argued for more developed personas where minimally age, gender and occupation were specified. Nielsen [14] critiqued such personas as two-dimensional stereotypes and proposed character based approaches drawing on traditions of European film making. Pastiche has also been used as a technique to develop richer scenarios by incorporating fictional  worlds and characters drawn from literature and popular culture [3][12]. Techniques from improvisational theatre have also been used to develop more nuanced personae and scenarios [13]. Design Fiction, then, is not new in HCI, but the increasing use of more complex narrative forms make it a much more powerful approach. While early user scenarios focused on utility, more developed design fictions can also consider the social, psychological and ethical dimensions of technology development.  Interestingly, design fictions can help not only designers but also a broader population to reflect on the implications of technology. For example, participants in the Steampunk subculture use a retro-futurist perspective on Victorian society to inform a complex set of material values and aesthetics [22]. Design fictions are also often taken as a starting point for projects in the green do-it-yourself community [23]. Fiction as a Resource for Exploring Values in Design  It has been noted that HCI researchers do not typically engage in critical evaluation of the potential consequences of their work [12][11][17]. There seems to be little questioning of the assumption that technology will make our lives more enjoyable, easier, better informed, healthier and more sustainable; or of our role as researchers in that process. The envisioning of HCI researchers is typically simplistic, short term and unconvincing from a sociological or psychological perspective. Indeed, considerable concern has been raised over this lack of consideration for human values in technology design [17]. However, in recent years, critical approaches such as reflective design [18], value centered design [9], and critical design [8] have been developed as methods for eliciting more critical reflection and envisioning regarding the implications of interactive technology.  Further, researchers have recently drawn specifically on fiction as a means for facilitating reflection on the implications of design. For example, Nathan et al., [12] propose the use of short speculative narratives, or value scenarios, as a method for inspiring critical reflection. Blythe [3] specifically uses science fiction narrative as pastiches, to criticize assumptions, and question values, inherent in ubicomp literature. Kirman et al., [11] present a speculative vision of an evil robot controlled future, in order to reframe and inspire reflection on long terms consequences of strands of contemporary HCI research. Workshop goals and themes The workshop aims to bring together interested academics from HCI, computer science, design and humanities to consider how critical, reflective and literary practices can help designers envision the long-term social and psychological consequences of interactive technology. In a challenging, interactive and playful workshop, participants will collaboratively write alternate endings for well-known HCI scenarios and papers. The intention is to engage not only those already interested in critical approaches to design, but to engage mainstream HCI researchers in more critical considerations of their work.  References [1] Bell, G., and Dourish, P. Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11 (2007), 133-143.  [2] Bleecker, J. Design fiction: A short essay on design, science, fact and fiction. Near Future Laboratory, 29, 2009. [3] Blythe, M. The hitchhiker’s guide to ubicomp: using techniques from literary and critical theory to reframe scientific agendas. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, (2013), 1-14. [4] Carroll J. M. Scenario-based design. In: Helander M., Landauer T.K., and Prabhu P., Editors, Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, Elsevier, 1999. [5] Cooper, A. L. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. Sams. Indianapolis, 1999. [6] Design Fictions. Digital Creativity, 24. 1. [7] Dourish, P., and Bell, G. Resistance Is Futile": Reading Science Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous Computing. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, (2013), 1-10. [8] Dunne, A., and Raby, F. Design noir: The secret life of electronic objects. Springer, Berlin, 2001. [9] Friedman, B., Kahn Jr, P. H., and Borning, A. (2006). Value sensitive design and information systems. Human-computer interaction in management information systems: Foundations, 5 (2006), 348-372. [10] Kirby, D. (2010). The Future is Now: Diegetic Prototypes and the Role of Popular Films in Generating Real-world Technological Development. Social Studies of Science, 40 (2010), 41-70. [11] Kirman, B., Linehan, C., Lawson, S., & O'Hara, D. CHI and the future robot enslavement of humankind: a retrospective. In Proc Ext. Abstracts CHI 2013, ACM Press (2013), 2199-2208.  [12] Nathan, L. P., Friedman, B., Klasnja, P., Kane, S. K., & Miller, J. K. (2008, February). Envisioning systemic effects on persons and society throughout interactive system design. In Proc DIS 2008, ACM Press (2008), 1-10.  [13] Newell, A., Carmichael, A., Morgan, M., Dickinson, A. The use of theatre in requirements gathering and usability studies. Interacting with Computers, 18 (2006), 996-1011. [14] Nielsen, L. From user to character: An investigation into userdescriptions in scenarios. In Proc DIS 2002, ACM Press (2002), 99-104. [15] Reeves, S. Envisioning ubiquitous computing. In Proc CHI 2012, ACM Press (2012), 1573-1582. [16] Reeves, S. Building the future with envisioning. Interactions, 20 (2013), 26-29. [17] Sellen, A., Rogers, Y., Harper, R., and Rodden, T., Reflecting human values in the digital age. Commun. ACM 52 (2009), 58-66. [18] Sengers, P., Boehner, K., David, S., and Kaye, J. J. Reflective design. In Proc Critical Computing 2005, ACM Press (2005), 49-58.  [19] Shedroff, N., and Noessel, C. Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction. Brooklyn, New York, USA: Rosenfeld Media, 2012. [20] Sterling B. Shaping Things. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA, 2005. [21] Sterling B. 2013. Fantasy Prototypes and Real Disruption. Keynote NEXT Berlin 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VIoRYPZk68 [22] Tanenbaum, J., Tanenbaum, K., and Wakkary, R. (2012, May). Steampunk as design fiction. In Proc CHI 2012, ACM Press (2012), 1583-1592.  [23] Wakkary, R., Desjardins, A., Hauser, S., and Maestri, L. (2013). A Sustainable Design Fiction: Green Practices. In ACM TOCHI (To appear). [24] Weiser, M. The computer for the twenty-first century. Scientific American, (1991), 94-104.  

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 Alternate Endings: Using Fiction to Explore Design Futures  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. Author Keywords Values Centered Design; Science Fiction; Design Fiction; Ethics. ACM Classification Keywords H.5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous.  Introduction Inherent in the design of all technology is a speculative story told by the designer about the future in which  Note: This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2014) extended abstracts.  ACM 978-1-4503-2474-8/14/04. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560472        Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre University of Lincoln, UK {clinehan; bkirman}@lincoln.ac.uk  Mark Blythe School of Design, Northumbria University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK mark.blythe@northumbria.ac.uk  Stuart Reeves Mixed Reality Lab School of Computer Science University of Nottingham stuart@tropic.org.uk  Ron Wakkary,  Audrey Desjardins,  Joshua Tanenbaum School of Interactive Arts and Technology Simon Fraser University, Canada {rwakkary; adesjard; joshuat@sfu.ca}@ sfu.ca   that technology exists and operates. In some rare cases (i.e., [24]), designers describe in some detail the fictional world for which they are designing, in order to explain and justify the long-term goals of their work. More commonly, evidence of a designer’s envisioning must be sought through close reading of their papers (see [1][7]). Either way, the striking feature of the future imagined by HCI researchers and practitioners is that it is often simplistic, short term, and focused on utility. It rarely acknowledges the potential for complex, long-term, social and psychological consequences of technology development. We propose using fiction as a means for engaging designers in considerations of the complexities for their work. Thus, this workshop will explore questions such as:  Can fiction engage designers in more critical examination of their own practices?  How can we enable designers to draw on fiction as a resource?  Are there identifiable benefits to the prevailing utilitarian HCI approach to envisioning the future?  Background There has long been a productive relationship between fiction and the design of new technologies. For example, in the 1960s, the television show Star Trek envisioned personal communicators that flipped open, which provided inspiration for one of the most successful early mobile phone designs: the Motorola StarTAC [19]. A more recent example is the treatment of gestural and embodied interaction in the science fiction film Minority Report, which drew on contemporary HCI research into multi-touch interfaces and re-presented it in a way that catalyzed the imagination of the general public [10][2]. There has been much interest recently in understanding fiction in design, focusing particularly on “design fictions.”  The term was coined by Sterling in his 2005 book Shaping Things [20], where he described it as something similar to science fiction, but different because it “made more sense”. Recently he offered a formal definition, as  “the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change.” [21] A recent special issue of the journal Digital Creativity [6] sought to provide a taxonomy of design fiction. This included work like Sterling’s that draws directly on science fiction, but also work which draws on near future fictions such as that of William Gibson. This work, like critical design [8], is often provocative and its intent is subversive. But there are also corporate design fictions by companies like Google and Microsoft, which portray comfortable futures in reassuring short films [15][16].   Within HCI there has been much discussion of how science fiction, and other types of speculative fiction, influences the work of technology designers [1][2]. There is also a very large body of work in HCI on the use of fictional narrative in the form of personas and scenarios. Short fictional vignettes have long been used to summarise findings from user studies and to illustrate potential technologies (e.g.[4]). Often users in such scenarios were little more than names, and Cooper [5] argued for more developed personas where minimally age, gender and occupation were specified. Nielsen [14] critiqued such personas as two-dimensional stereotypes and proposed character based approaches drawing on traditions of European film making. Pastiche has also been used as a technique to develop richer scenarios by incorporating fictional  worlds and characters drawn from literature and popular culture [3][12]. Techniques from improvisational theatre have also been used to develop more nuanced personae and scenarios [13]. Design Fiction, then, is not new in HCI, but the increasing use of more complex narrative forms make it a much more powerful approach. While early user scenarios focused on utility, more developed design fictions can also consider the social, psychological and ethical dimensions of technology development.  Interestingly, design fictions can help not only designers but also a broader population to reflect on the implications of technology. For example, participants in the Steampunk subculture use a retro-futurist perspective on Victorian society to inform a complex set of material values and aesthetics [22]. Design fictions are also often taken as a starting point for projects in the green do-it-yourself community [23]. Fiction as a Resource for Exploring Values in Design  It has been noted that HCI researchers do not typically engage in critical evaluation of the potential consequences of their work [12][11][17]. There seems to be little questioning of the assumption that technology will make our lives more enjoyable, easier, better informed, healthier and more sustainable; or of our role as researchers in that process. The envisioning of HCI researchers is typically simplistic, short term and unconvincing from a sociological or psychological perspective. Indeed, considerable concern has been raised over this lack of consideration for human values in technology design [17]. However, in recent years, critical approaches such as reflective design [18], value centered design [9], and critical design [8] have been developed as methods for eliciting more critical reflection and envisioning regarding the implications of interactive technology.  Further, researchers have recently drawn specifically on fiction as a means for facilitating reflection on the implications of design. For example, Nathan et al., [12] propose the use of short speculative narratives, or value scenarios, as a method for inspiring critical reflection. Blythe [3] specifically uses science fiction narrative as pastiches, to criticize assumptions, and question values, inherent in ubicomp literature. Kirman et al., [11] present a speculative vision of an evil robot controlled future, in order to reframe and inspire reflection on long terms consequences of strands of contemporary HCI research. Workshop goals and themes The workshop aims to bring together interested academics from HCI, computer science, design and humanities to consider how critical, reflective and literary practices can help designers envision the long-term social and psychological consequences of interactive technology. In a challenging, interactive and playful workshop, participants will collaboratively write alternate endings for well-known HCI scenarios and papers. The intention is to engage not only those already interested in critical approaches to design, but to engage mainstream HCI researchers in more critical considerations of their work.  References [1] Bell, G., and Dourish, P. Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11 (2007), 133-143.  [2] Bleecker, J. Design fiction: A short essay on design, science, fact and fiction. Near Future Laboratory, 29, 2009. [3] Blythe, M. The hitchhiker’s guide to ubicomp: using techniques from literary and critical theory to reframe scientific agendas. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, (2013), 1-14. [4] Carroll J. M. Scenario-based design. In: Helander M., Landauer T.K., and Prabhu P., Editors, Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, Elsevier, 1999. [5] Cooper, A. L. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. Sams. Indianapolis, 1999. [6] Design Fictions. Digital Creativity, 24. 1. [7] Dourish, P., and Bell, G. Resistance Is Futile": Reading Science Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous Computing. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, (2013), 1-10. [8] Dunne, A., and Raby, F. Design noir: The secret life of electronic objects. Springer, Berlin, 2001. [9] Friedman, B., Kahn Jr, P. H., and Borning, A. (2006). Value sensitive design and information systems. Human-computer interaction in management information systems: Foundations, 5 (2006), 348-372. [10] Kirby, D. (2010). The Future is Now: Diegetic Prototypes and the Role of Popular Films in Generating Real-world Technological Development. Social Studies of Science, 40 (2010), 41-70. [11] Kirman, B., Linehan, C., Lawson, S., & O'Hara, D. CHI and the future robot enslavement of humankind: a retrospective. In Proc Ext. Abstracts CHI 2013, ACM Press (2013), 2199-2208.  [12] Nathan, L. P., Friedman, B., Klasnja, P., Kane, S. K., & Miller, J. K. (2008, February). Envisioning systemic effects on persons and society throughout interactive system design. In Proc DIS 2008, ACM Press (2008), 1-10.  [13] Newell, A., Carmichael, A., Morgan, M., Dickinson, A. The use of theatre in requirements gathering and usability studies. Interacting with Computers, 18 (2006), 996-1011. [14] Nielsen, L. From user to character: An investigation into userdescriptions in scenarios. In Proc DIS 2002, ACM Press (2002), 99-104. [15] Reeves, S. Envisioning ubiquitous computing. In Proc CHI 2012, ACM Press (2012), 1573-1582. [16] Reeves, S. Building the future with envisioning. Interactions, 20 (2013), 26-29. [17] Sellen, A., Rogers, Y., Harper, R., and Rodden, T., Reflecting human values in the digital age. Commun. ACM 52 (2009), 58-66. [18] Sengers, P., Boehner, K., David, S., and Kaye, J. J. Reflective design. In Proc Critical Computing 2005, ACM Press (2005), 49-58.  [19] Shedroff, N., and Noessel, C. Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction. Brooklyn, New York, USA: Rosenfeld Media, 2012. [20] Sterling B. Shaping Things. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA, 2005. [21] Sterling B. 2013. Fantasy Prototypes and Real Disruption. Keynote NEXT Berlin 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VIoRYPZk68 [22] Tanenbaum, J., Tanenbaum, K., and Wakkary, R. (2012, May). Steampunk as design fiction. In Proc CHI 2012, ACM Press (2012), 1583-1592.  [23] Wakkary, R., Desjardins, A., Hauser, S., and Maestri, L. (2013). A Sustainable Design Fiction: Green Practices. In ACM TOCHI (To appear). [24] Weiser, M. The computer for the twenty-first century. Scientific American, (1991), 94-104.  

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CHI and the future robot enslavement of humankind: a retrospective.

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