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- Giaccardi, Elisa, et al.
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The making(s) of more-than-human design : introduction to the special issue on more-than-human design and HCI
- 2024
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Ingår i: Human-Computer Interaction. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0737-0024 .- 1532-7051.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Human activities have drastically altered the planet, with design playing a significant role. While design may intend to do good, its consequences are not always positive: from climate change to resource depletion to unforeseen social dynamics. These transformations also include ourselves, as our relationships with new technologies blur and complicate previous human and machine agency distinctions. Increasingly, design has become a matter of defining what it means to be human. This special issue explores the proposition that conventional human-centered design approaches may not adequately address the complex challenges we face, and that there is instead a need to ground design in more-than-human perspectives. This introduction outlines the evolving landscape of more-than-human design in the context of HCI. Articulating a series of emerging research trajectories, we aim to illuminate the transformative potential of more-than-human orientations to design, including how they both extend and depart from familiar lines of inquiry in HCI–for example, how designers are redefining data, interfaces, and responsibility, and reshaping posthuman knowledge through design. Ultimately, this special issue aims to explore new pathways for designing in the era of the more-than-human, challenging the perceived divide between practice and theory to imagine alternative futures for HCI.
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- Nicenboim, Iohanna, et al.
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Conversation starters : how can we misunderstand AI better?
- 2023
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Ingår i: CHI EA'23. - : ACM Digital Library. - 9781450394222
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conversation Starters is a series of interactive prototypes that probe how to design explainable interactions with AI in everyday life. Taking a more-than-human approach, we explore how 'failures' could be transformed into opportunities for situated understandings of AI. We describe the process of designing fictional artifacts and scenarios about conversational agents that can grow at home. While overall the project suggests that misunderstandings could help people develop sensitivities for knowing when to trust AI systems, the metaphor of 'growing an AI' (which positions training as a matter of care), highlights that practices of sharing and experimenting could be valuable starting points for designing explainable and trustworthy interactions with of AI.
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- Nicenboim, Iohanna, et al.
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Designing more-than-human AI : experiments on situated conversations and silences
- 2023
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Ingår i: diid disegno industriale industrial design. - : Bologna University Press. - 1594-8528 .- 2785-2245. ; :80, s. 32-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Every interaction with an AI-powered device invokes a vast planetary network. Operating on temporal and geographical scales that go beyond humans, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems pose various societal and environmental challenges. These challenges encompass issues such as the extraction of both human and nonhuman resources and knowledge, and the reproduction of inequalities. To tackle these concerns, scholars in Design and Human-Computer-Interaction emphasize the urgency for designers to cultivate non-anthropocentric approaches. In the pursuit of establishing a non-anthropocentric design practice for AI, this paper adopts a more-than-human orientation in the design of conversational agents (CAs). We start by presenting a series of design experiments, including workshops, videos and performances, that shed light on the anthropocentric biases ingrained in CA interactions. These experiments unveil how CAs are designed to recognize and address only specific human voices and concerns. Building upon these insights, we introduce two outcomes that chart an alternative path – the first involves a collection of interactive prototypes for CAs that are capable of listening and responding to more-than-human “voices” while the second entails a tool to support designers in noticing more-than-human entanglements, in the form of a podcast. We conclude by reflecting on how the knowledge gained from our design inquiry can illuminate future design practices and contribute to AI research as a whole.
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- Nicenboim, Iohanna, et al.
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From explanations to shared understandings of AI
- 2022
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Ingår i: DRS 2022: Bilbao. - : Design Research Society. - 9781912294572
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A key challenge in the design of AI systems is how to support people in understanding them. We address this challenge by positioning explanations in everyday life, within ongoing relations between people and artificial agents. By reorienting explainability through more-than-human design, we call for a new approach that considers both people and artificial agents as active participants in constructing understandings. To articulate such an approach, we first review the assumptions underpinning the premise of explaining AI. We then conceptualize a shift from explanations to shared understandings, which we characterize as situated, dynamic, and performative. We conclude by proposing two design strategies to support shared understandings, i.e. looking across AI and exposing AI failures. We argue that these strategies can help designers reveal the hidden complexity of AI (e.g., positionality and infrastructures), and thus support people in understanding agents' capabilities and limitations in the context of their own lives.
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- Nicenboim, Iohanna, et al.
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More-Than-Human Design and AI : In Conversation with Agents
- 2020
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Ingår i: DIS' 20 Companion. - New York : ACM Press. - 9781450379878 ; , s. 397-400, s. 397-400
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This one-day workshop brings together HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners to explore how to study and design (with) AI agents from a more-than-human design perspective. We invite participants to experiment with thing ethnography and material speculations, as a starting point to map and possibly integrate emergent frameworks and methodologies for more-than-human design. By using conversational agents as a case, participants will discuss what a more-than-human approach can offer to the understanding and design of AI systems, and how this aligns with third-wave HCI concerns of networks, infrastructures, and ecologies.
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- Nicenboim, Iohanna, et al.
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More-Than-Human Design and AI
- 2020
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Ingår i: DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450379878 ; , s. 397-400
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This one-day workshop brings together HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners to explore how to study and design (with) AI agents from a more-than-human design perspective. We invite participants to experiment with thing ethnography and material speculations, as a starting point to map and possibly integrate emergent frameworks and methodologies for more-than-human design. By using conversational agents as a case, participants will discuss what a more-than-human approach can offer to the understanding and design of AI systems, and how this aligns with third-wave HCI concerns of networks, infrastructures, and ecologies.
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- Reddy, Anuradha, et al.
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Encountering ethics through design : A workshop with nonhuman participants
- 2021
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Ingår i: AI & Society. - : Springer Nature. - 0951-5666 .- 1435-5655. ; 36, s. 853-861
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What if we began to speculate that intelligent things have an ethical agenda? Could we then imagine ways to move past the moral divide ‘human vs. nonhuman’ in those contexts, where things act on our behalf? Would this help us better address matters of agency and responsibility in the design and use of intelligent systems? In this article, we argue that if we fail to address intelligent things as objects that deserve moral consideration by their relations within a broad social context, we will lack a grip on the distinct ethical rules governing our interaction with intelligent things, and how to design for it. We report insights from a workshop, where we take seriously the perspectives offered by intelligent things, by allowing unforeseen ethical situations to emerge in an improvisatory manner. By giving intelligent things an active role in interaction, our participants seemed to be activated by the artifacts, provoked to act and respond to things beyond the artifact itself—its direct functionality and user experience. The workshop helped to consider autonomous behavior not as a simplistic exercise of anthropomorphization, but within the more significant ecosystems of relations, practices and values of which intelligent things are a part.
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- Reddy, Anuradha, et al.
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Making Everyday Things Talk : Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home
- 2021
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Ingår i: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450380959
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- What if things had a voice? What if we could talk directly to things instead of using a mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant? In this paper, we share our insights from talking to a pair of boots, a tampon, a perfume bottle, and toilet paper among other everyday things to explore their conversational capabilities. We conducted Thing Interviews using a more-than-human design approach to discover a thing’s perspectives, worldviews and its relations to other humans and nonhumans. Based on our analysis of the speculative conversations, we identified some themes characterizing the emergent qualities of people’s relationships with everyday things. We believe the themes presented in the paper may inspire future research on designing everyday things with conversational capabilities at home.
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