Imaginary Design Workbooks

Blythe, Mark; Encinas, Enrique; Kaye, Jofish; Avery, Miriam Lueck; McCabe, Rob; Andersen, Kristina

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173807

Cited by 48 publications

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“…Each workshop lasted around 2 hours and was conducted in a group setting, with 2 to 5 participants at the time. The workshops followed a research through design methodology [75], particularly inspired by Andersen's Magic Machines [5,11] which facilitates the expression of personal experiences through an embodied process of making. Magic Machines have been particularly used to explore abstract concepts with experts, often external e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Drawing from Andersen's Magic Machines methodology [5,11], participants were asked to individually build a magic machine: "magic, in this context, refers to the desired, notyet-understood ability of future technology, and machine to its embodiment and physical interface to the human user" [p35, 2]. In particular, they were asked to create a physical artefact with imaginary functionalities that addresses their initial reflection on their evolving physical sensations during meditation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…At the beginning of each workshop, we asked participants to reflect and draw on a blank card their "bodily sensations during meditation, paying careful attention to the difference between when they are being mindful and when their mind wanders". The goal of this task was to provide an inviting introduction to the design space and set the workshop scene, which acts as a prompt in Magic Machine workshops [5,11].…”

Section: Part 1 Introducing the Design Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Body Matters

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2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Body Matters

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2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Some of the research reported is intended to challenge and provoke current, emerging and near-future technological systems and our attitudes and understandings as both designers and uses of these systems. Blythe et al, used an imaginary design workbook [6] approach with industry partner Mozilla and a social work professional to promote workshop participants' critical envisioning around (post) privacy and surveillance potential of home-hub technologies "that record the minutia of our lives". The experimental design workshop process was used to demonstrate one approach to addressing HCI's need to not only "engage with political, ethical and legal issues" while questioning whether designers actually currently do or not.…”

Section: Conceptual/methodological Research Toolkitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creative Toolkits for TIPS

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Briggs

2020

Computer Security

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We present a survey of toolkits employed in research workshop approaches within TIPS (Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security) domains. Our survey was developed within wider design research to develop prototypes that support people in evaluating whether to trust that an online actor's identity is not recently faked, and that a service they are registering personal information with is legitimate; and a subsequent project involving a tool that invites people to reflect on the cumulative risks of sharing apparently harmless personal information online. The radically multidisciplinary nature of both these TIPS projects has determined that we create a research space to promote exchange to, as design researchers, better understand the 'opaque' immediate and longer term implications of our proposed services and invite cross-disciplinary discussion towards interdisciplinary understandings. This paper is intended as an at-a-glance resource, or indeed toolkit, for researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working on TIPS research to inform on various different material engagements, with research stakeholders, through creative workshop approaches. Our survey focused on the literature from Design (especially Participatory Design and Codesign), Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and cybersecurity. It comprises 27 papers or toolkit examples organised across: review papers; example toolkits; case studies reporting relevant toolkit use; applied toolkits for learning/knowledge exchange; research toolkits focused on demonstrating a methodological-conceptual approach (some problematising emergent or near-future technologies); and two papers that straddled the latter two categories, focusing on future practical application. We begin with an overview of our rationale and method before presenting each group of texts in a table alongside a summary discussion. We go on to discuss the various material components, affordances and terminology of the toolkits along with core concerns often left out of the reporting of research; before going on to recognise toolkits not so much as things that diagnose and fix things, but as a loose collection of readily available material and wider resources, used in particular participatory approaches, which together help account for techno-relational differences and contingencies in TIPS-related fields.

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“…Some design fictions, by considering radical change over a short period of time, can open up a dialogue on future trajectories and reflection on present conditions. They can also build new narratives to critique existing practices [1], understandings [6], and question the solutionism [7] often associated with HCI. The use of speculative 'what if' future scenarios has been used to connect work in HCI to possibilities for change and disruption in the present.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%