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Sensing Care Through Design: A Speculative Role-play Approach to "Living with" Sensor-supported Care Networks

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Robert Collins,

Lachlan D Urquhart,

Larissa Pschetz,

Marco C. Rozendaal,

Irina ShklovskiAuthors Info & Claims

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596066

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Sensor networks are increasingly commonplace in visions of smart cities and future healthcare systems, promising greater efficiency and increased wellbeing. However, the design of these technologies remains focused on specific users and fragmented by context, overlooking the diversity of needs, wants and values present when technologies, people, and lived realities interact within instrumented spaces. In this paper we present a workshop method – Sensing Care – that can help researchers, interdisciplinary design and development teams, and potentially affected users, to explore what it takes to design for living with sensor technologies that intersect and interact across private and public spaces, through speculative scenarios and role play. Drawing from three deployments of the workshop, we discuss how this approach supports the design of future care-oriented sensor networks, and helps designers understand what it means to live with complex technologies as people traverse diverse contexts.

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Wilson CPschetz LDixon BLewis SRevans JVines J(2024)Creating Resources for Designing with and for Care Ecologies in HCIProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3660709(3161-3178)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3660709
Hanschke VRees DAlanyali MHopkinson DMarshall P(2024)Data Ethics Emergency Drill: A Toolbox for Discussing Responsible AI for Industry TeamsProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642402(1-17)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642402
Hwang ATannou TNanthakumar JCao WChu CZeytinoglu Atici CScane KYu ATsang WChan JLea PHarris ZWang R(2024)Co-creating Humanistic AI AgeTech to Support Dynamic Care Ecosystems: A Preliminary Guiding ModelThe Gerontologist10.1093/geront/gnae09365:1Online publication date: 2-Aug-2024
https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae093

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