The Future of Public Libraries as Convivial Spaces

Kozubæv, Sandjar; DiSalvo, Carl

doi:10.1145/3323994.3369901

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“…This paper combined techniques from prior work in design futuring methods [82,83] in participatory design workshop. We applied these techniques to engage domain experts from investigative journalism and legal analysis in conversation about their values expectations and perceptions of automated NLP futures.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“It’s Like the Value System in the Loop”: Domain Experts’ Values Expectations for NLP Automation

Showkat

Baumer

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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The rise of automated text processing systems has led to the development of tools designed for a wide variety of application domains. These technologies are often developed to support non-technical users such as domain experts and are often developed in isolation of the tools primary user. While such developments are exciting, less attention has been paid to domain experts' expectations about the values embedded in these automated systems. As a step toward addressing that gap, we examined values expectations of journalists and legal experts. Both these domains involve extensive text processing and place high importance on values in professional practice. We engaged participants from two non-proft organizations in two separate co-speculation design workshops centered around several speculative automated text processing systems. This study makes three interrelated contributions. First, we provide a detailed investigation of domain experts' values expectations around future NLP systems. Second, the speculative design fction concepts, which we specifcally crafted for these investigative journalists and legal experts, illuminated a series of tensions around the technical implementation details of automation. Third, our fndings highlight the utility of design fction in eliciting not-to-design implications, not only about automated NLP but also about technology more broadly. Overall, our study fndings provide groundwork for the inclusion of domain experts values whose expertise lies outside of the feld of computing into the design of automated NLP systems. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Empirical studies in HCI; Computer supported cooperative work.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Building of of these design approaches, we applied Design Fiction to build an automated NLP world for the journalists and legal experts, where our design concepts lived [40,83]. "Design fction is about creative provocation, raising questions, innovation, and exploration" [18].…”

Section: Envisioning Automated Nlp Futures Through Design Futuring Me...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“It’s Like the Value System in the Loop”: Domain Experts’ Values Expectations for NLP Automation

Showkat

Baumer

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Design research has increasingly focused on imagining and debating alternative futures through methods such as speculative design [24], discursive design [95], and design fction (e.g., [19,52,63,92]). Following Kozubaev et al, we use design futuring as an umbrella term to loosely refer to such approaches, which are "concerned with future alternatives" and which seek to "produce knowledge through debate, contestation, refection etc. "…”

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Calling for a Plurality of Perspectives on Design Futuring: An Un-Manifesto

Howell

Schulte

Holroyd

et al. 2021

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The Futures Cone, a prominent model in design futuring, is useful for promoting discussions about possible, plausible, probable, and preferable futures. Yet this model has limitations, such as representing diverse human experiences as a singular point of "the present" and implicitly embedding notions of linear progress. Responding to this, we argue that a plurality of perspectives is needed to engage imaginations that depict a diverse unfolding of potential futures. Through refecting on our own cultural and professional backgrounds, we ofer fve perspectives for design futuring as a contribution to this plurality: Parallel Presents, "I Am Time", Epithelial Metaphors, the Uncertainties Cone, and Meet (with) "Speculation". These perspectives open alternative approaches to design futuring, move outside prevalent notions of technological progress, and foreground interdependent, relational agencies. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); HCI theory, concepts and models.

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“…HCI research has a history of developing artful interventions and methods to enable citizens to critically engage with the politics of design and socio-technical artefacts, and information infrastructures [30,66]. Here speculative design and design fiction are commonly used as ways to support critical explorations of technologies' societal impact [26,56]. The variety of these approaches is articulated in the more recent article by Wong et al where they summarise the value and benefits of using particular speculative tactics to support the critical exploration of the socio-political, cultural and economic visions that drive digital innovation and socio-technical infrastructures [91].…”

Section: Critical Engagements With Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Opening Research Commissioning To Civic Participation: Creating A Community Panel To Review The Social Impact of HCI Research Proposals

Johnson

Crivellaro

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper we report insights from the design and delivery of a process that invited distinct groups of citizens to co-develop and apply social impact assessment criteria for the purpose of reviewing research proposals on HCI, social justice and digital technologies. We describe our process, designed to create dialogic spaces that foster critical engagements with technologies and social issues, cooperation and peer-support. In our findings we explore how people defined and contextualised social impact in lived experiences, negotiated and legitimised their role as reviewers, and articulated the value of HCI research for social justice. We reflect on the significance of involving citizens in the commissioning of research that addresses inequalities and social justice in technology design and draw implications for HCI researchers concerned with ethical dimensions of technology. The work contributes to HCI and civic engagement's traditions to develop effective participatory methods and collaborative processes to produce digital technologies that support social justice.

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The Future of Public Libraries as Convivial Spaces

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

“It’s Like the Value System in the Loop”: Domain Experts’ Values Expectations for NLP Automation

“It’s Like the Value System in the Loop”: Domain Experts’ Values Expectations for NLP Automation

Calling for a Plurality of Perspectives on Design Futuring: An Un-Manifesto

Opening Research Commissioning To Civic Participation: Creating A Community Panel To Review The Social Impact of HCI Research Proposals

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