Philosophers Living with the Tilting Bowl

Wakkary, Ron; Oogjes, Doenja; Lin, Henry; Hauser, Sabrina

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173668

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“…With this conceptualization in mind, we designed a study that would generate empirical insights while providing an opportunity to speculate with participants and explore the broader design space for programmable donations. We were inspired by recent approaches in HCI to undertake 'co-speculation' [41], and forms of enactments [15,34] that invite participants to experience and reflect upon possible futures through engagements with various speculative artefacts and scenarios. Over the course of six months, we undertook a series of engagements with a total of 23 participants to co-speculate on a programmable donations service.…”

Section: Research Approach and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To explore this, we conducted a study where we speculated about the potential value of programmable donations with donors. Drawing inspiration from speculative approaches to interrogate experiences of emerging technologies (e.g, [8,15,34,41,42] we report on two pilot workshops (with 9 participants) and an interview-based study with a further 14 charitable donors who were invited to participate and enact a speculative service. We investigated the range of conditions -from personal to world events -donors would consider attaching to a donation, and the actors they would trust to provide and validate information that triggered their donation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Programmable Donations

Elsden

Trotter

Harding

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper reports on a co-speculative interview study with charitable donors to explore the future of programmable, conditional and data-driven donations. Responding to the rapid emergence of blockchain-based and AI-supported financial technologies, we specifically examine the potential of automated, third-party 'escrows', where donations are held before they are released or returned based on specified rules and conditions. To explore this we conducted pilot workshops with 9 participants and an interview study in which 14 further participants were asked about their experiences of donating money, and invited to co-speculate on a service for programmable giving. The study elicited how data-driven conditionality and automation could be leveraged to create novel donor experiences, however also illustrated the inherent tensions and challenges involved in giving programmatically. Reflecting on these findings, our paper contributes implications both for the design of programmable aid platforms, and the design of escrow-based financial services in general. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → User studies.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Programmable Donations

Elsden

Trotter

Harding

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…We have also seen how speculative approaches hold value for imagining the implications for the adoption of technologies created by HCI teams [51]. Furthermore, while much speculative research has been kept within design teams, more recently we see how HCI researchers combine empirical studies and speculative approaches [29], or engage in what Wakkary et al refer to as 'co-speculation' [78]. As these approaches mature, they provide a space where more traditional forms of evidence (in this case, qualitative accounts) are brought together with speculative materials and objects in structured ways that speak to the priorities of policymakers.…”

Section: Policymaking and Futuring Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Boundaries between Policymaking and HCI

Spaa

Durrant

Elsden

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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There is a growing body of literature in HCI examining the intersection between policymaking and technology research. However, what it means to engage in policymaking in our field, or the ways in which evidence from HCI studies is translated into policy, is not well understood. We report on interviews with 11 participants working at the intersection of technology research and policymaking. Analysis of this data highlights how evidence is understood and made sense of in policymaking processes, what forms of evidence are privileged over others, and the work that researchers engage in to meaningfully communicate their work to policymaking audiences. We discuss how our findings pose challenges for certain traditions of research in HCI, yet also open up new policy opportunities for those engaging in more speculative research practices. We conclude by discussing three ways forward that the HCI community can explore to increase engagement with policymaking contexts. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Field studies.

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“…Postphenomenology is gaining traction in HCI [5,11,62,63]. While phenomenology studies the relation between human and the world to find what it means to be human, postphenomenology looks to the relations between human, technology and the world.…”

Section: Postphenomenologymentioning

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Dancing With Drones

Eriksson

Unander-Scharin

Trichon

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Movement-based interactions are gaining traction, requiring a better understanding of how such expressions are shaped by designers. Through an analysis of an artistic process aimed to deliver a commissioned opera where custom-built drones are performing on stage alongside human performers, we observed the importance of achieving an intercorporeal understanding to shape body-based emotional expressivity. Our analysis reveals how the choreographer moves herself to: (1) imitate and feel the affordances and expressivity of the drones' 'otherness' through her own bodily experience; (2) communicate to the engineer of the team how she wants to alter the drones' behaviors to be more expressive; (3) enact and interactively alter her choreography. Through months of intense development and creative work, such an intercorporeal understanding was achieved by carefully crafting the drones' behaviors, but also by the choreographer adjusting her own somatics and expressions. The choreography arose as a result of the expressivity they enabled together. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; Empirical studies in HCI.

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Philosophers Living with the Tilting Bowl

Cited by 85 publications

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