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This design fiction proposes a panel session in the near future having environment and climate advocates share their stories of using artificial intelligence (AI) in their work. This work explores how the development of an embodied river persona, a ...

Literary approaches to design fictions, though previously theorized to be diverse in form and content, often fall within narrow stylistic and content boundaries such as speculative abstracts, memos, and studies. By drawing on a rich history of science ...

Currently, the development of the metaverse lies in the hands of industry. Citizens have little influence on this process. Instead, to do justice to the pluralism of (digital) societies, we should strive for an open discourse including many different ...

The interest in enhancing video game interactions through wearable technology has grown, yet accessible gaming with wearables remains underexplored. This study employs participatory design fiction, enabling disabled gamers to envision a future with ...

Citizens are increasingly envisioned as active participants in sustainable transitions. One vision imagines digital civics as energy communities wherein local actors collectively produce and consume renewable energy. As energy communities are an emergent ...

Speculative approaches to technology-enabled futures of ageing often struggle against reductive and immaterial imaginaries that diverge from everyday realities. This is compounded by the mainstream embrace of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools ...

Sleep technologies promise optimised sleep by tracking sleep cycles or by affecting sleep environment. This paper expands sleep technology to address more complex notions of sleep, proposing dream technology as a path for reflective practices that focus ...

How might emerging modalities (e.g., NLP) be leveraged to transform the provision of parenting support? To explore the role of AI technologies in supporting parenting behaviour—and child-well-being—we surveyed 92 parents to gather their perspectives on ...

Playful research approaches have become more popular in Human- Robot Interaction (HRI). In this paper, a tabletop role-playing game is introduced as a means to explore future robot technologies in a playful, immersive and human-centred approach. The ...

Conversational assistants, an inherently accessible mode of interaction for blind and low vision (BLV) individuals, offer opportunities to support nonvisual access in new ways. In this paper, we explore whether and how human-like conversations can ...

The past few years have witnessed a remarkable advancement in the field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), a technology capable of generating new content based on input prompts and existing knowledge. This technology has the potential to ...

As new forms of data capture emerge to power new AI applications, questions abound about the ethical implications of these data collection practices. In this paper, we present clinicians' perspectives on the prospective benefits and harms of voice data ...

The blend of novel technologies and built environments gave rise to the emerging field of human-building interaction (HBI) and introduced fresh forms of spatial experience. Civic involvement and engagement are paramount to HBI research and outreach, ...

This paper presents nature fictions, a co-design approach that seeks to highlight relations between people and nonhuman stakeholders in the process of imagining sustainable futures. The work was situated in gardens, to explore nature relations in ...

The integration of novel technologies in built environments has increased the complexity of designing cities and spaces with citizens. Unobtrusive and invisible interfaces can lead to new forms of spatial experiences, but also form a black box which is ...

People always envision the future of earth through science fiction (Sci-fi), so can we create a unique experience of "visiting the future earth" through the lens of artificial intelligence (AI)? We introduce Wander 2.0, an AI chatbot that co-creates sci-...

Human-Computer Interaction and the Arts have a relatively recent history, but computers have opened the world to new forms of expression and wide audiences. The way in which we think of art has changed, from webcomics and digital painting to AI-...

In the design of social robots, the focus is often on the robot itself rather than on the intricacies of possible application scenarios. In this paper, we examine eight fictional documentaries about social robots, such as SEYNO, a robot that promotes ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) continuously evolves its level of complexity as it interacts with users. To address the unexpected outcomes of AI, developers desire to communicate with prospective users and reflect their opinions in the AI design pipeline. ...

Inspired by previous research examining the challenges and benefits of Black Twitter (a community gathered on a platform used by Black people but not created by or for them), this design fiction presents a fictional study of a successful yet speculative ...