The deliberate cargo cult

• Taking it’s origin from the notion of the cargo cult as anelaborate misunderstanding, this paper suggests a series ofexploratory design methods to support users in generatingrequirements and scenarios-of-use for technological objectsthat do not yet exist. Strategies from fields such as art andperformance are used to create experiences of userinvolvementcentered on the making of non-functionalmock-ups. These can then act as props through which theparticipant can express their intuitions and concerns with agiven technological notion. The processes described makesuse of a broad range of cultural drivers to engage users inplayful misunderstandings that facilitate new, out of theordinary, interpretations of objects. The paper outlines thebasis of three projects, discusses the drivers behind eachproject and suggests guidelines for creating these kinds ofexploratory embodied experiences.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Future technology; magic; prototyping; cargo cult; experience

Human-computer Interaction

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