Making Everyday Things Talk: Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home

Reddy, Anuradha Venugopal; Kocaballı, A. Baki; Nicenboim, Iohanna; Søndergaard, Marie Louise Juul; Lupetti, Maria Luce; Key, Cayla; Speed, Chris; Lockton, Dan; Giaccardi, Elisa; Grommé, Francisca; Robbins, Holly; Primlani, Namrata; Yurman, Paulina; Sumartojo, Shanti; Phan, Thao; Bedö, Viktor; Strengers, Yolande

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“…or multispecies care and collaborative survival [22]. Dr. Anuradha Venugopal Reddy, a postdoctoral design researcher in the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, explores technological interventions such as AI and CA's from a non-human perspective to reimagine more-than-human approaches to ethics [87] and agency [92]. Dr. Ron Wakkary is a design researcher in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University and the Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centered Worlds at Eindhoven University of Technology.…”

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“…While workshops with other researchers are incredibly common, as conference activities (e.g., [7]), to pilot methods, share practices (e.g., [47]), develop new directions (e.g., [102]) etc. they are less commonly reported in archival publications (see e.g., [11,92,128] as notable exceptions). One related trend in HCI is for small groups of scholars to engage in collective refection, retrospective, or ethnography (e.g., [13,40,55,68,127]) as part of a refective practice to "re-understand their own role in the technology design process" and "uncover and alter the limitations of design practice" [98:7].…”

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Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI

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As posthumanist or post-anthropocentric research in HCI and design proliferates and further commits to working with morethan-humans, design research practitioners are left with many open questions and uncertainties with how to productively engage with more-than-humans in their thinking and working. This paper present results from a workshop with 17 researchers working at the intersection of care ethics and posthumanism to highlight tensions in posthumanist engagement aimed at unpacking some of the challenges, obstacles, and questions encountered by researchers interested in more-than-human centered design. In foregrounding tensions with representation, legitimization, unseen labor, and material narratives we contribute to a design research agenda which seeks to explicate and challenge dominant anthropocentric forces from design. We conclude by discussing epistemological care and urge practitioners to take up new ways of imagining through truly messy methods which contribute to a feminist unsettling of HCI's methodological commitments, practices, and praxis. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); HCI theory, concepts and models.

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Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI

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“…(In some ways, thought experiments such as Rawls' 'veil of ignorance' [93] also fit here). Perhaps along the lines of Reddy et al's work on 'making everyday things talk' [94], in which people adopt the voice of different objects in their domestic environment to shift perspectives on conversational technologies, or Alves-Oliveira et al's work on new metaphors for robots [3] we can imagine an activity where participants role-play different presences in the home (or in their lives in other ways).…”

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Our everyday technologies could have appeared terrifying to our ancestors: instantaneous disembodied communication, access to knowledge, objects with 'intelligence' that talk to us (and each other). Black boxes and intangible entities are omnipresent in our homes and lives without our necessarily understanding the hidden flows of data, unknown agendas, imaginary clouds, and mysterious rules that govern them. Have humanity's ways of relating to the unknown throughout history gone away, or have they perhaps transmuted into new forms?In an ongoing project, we have inventoried examples, encounters and reflections on contemporary technology, framed through the perspective of the haunted, spectral and otherworldly. In this paper, we excerpt this collection to illustrate the value and opportunity of an unfamiliar, disquieting perspective in helping to frame the frictions, beliefs and myths that are emerging around interactions with everyday technologies. We posit and demonstrate 'spooky technology' as an accessible framework to reflect and respond to our increasingly entangled relationships with technology.

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“…The human impersonating sand builds on their obviously limited access to how the world is for sand, and their knowledge about how sand is handled, used, transported, and its value in production processes combined with a huge amount of imagination, allows plausible, although fictive and speculative, immersions into the sand's perspective. Another point of reference for adopting other-than-human perspectives is the design method "Interview with Things" (Chang et al, 2017;Reddy et al, 2021). Similar to the "Everything is Alive" interviews, it builds on impersonating things in interviews to explore everyday sociomaterial networks in which the things are operating.…”

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Urban Play and the Playable City: A Critical Perspective

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Making Everyday Things Talk: Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home

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