Using design fiction to reflect on autonomy in smart technology for people living with dementia

Schulte, Britta

doi:10.1145/2968219.2972717

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“…Design activities ( Brandt and Messeter, 2004 ; Belman et al, 2011 ; Friedman and Hendry, 2012 ) and interviews have been often used as a tool to elicit values from the users with few exceptions ( Fleischmann and Wallace, 2009 ; Fleischmann and Wallace, 2010 ), which were conducted with developers. Design fiction ( Bleecker, 2009 ; Tanenbaum et al, 2012 ; Blythe, 2014 ) has been used in HCI as a speculative space ( Blythe et al, 2016 ) that allows researchers to understand the societal impact of future technology ( Blythe, 2017 ) and the values related to it ( Dourish and Bell, 2014 ; Schulte, 2016 ; Muller and Liao, 2017 ; Wong et al, 2017 ). According to Fitzpatrick (2015) , for designers to become “responsible,” they need to be reflective practitioners, aware of their power in inscribing futures.…”

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Ethical Design of a Robot Platform for Disabled Employees: Some Practical Methodological Considerations

Colombino¹,

Gallo²,

Shreepriya³

et al. 2021

Front. Robot. AI

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This paper explains the process of developing a scenario involving the use of a robotic platform to enhance the work experience of disabled employees. We outline the challenges involved in revealing the potential unintended consequences of introducing elements of Artificial Intelligence, automation, and robotics into a socially and ethically complex and potentially fragile scenario, and the practical challenges involved in giving a voice to vulnerable users throughout the design process. While an ideal case scenario would involve the disabled employees as much as possible directly in the design process, this can, realistically, be a challenge. In this paper, we detail a methodological and analytic approach that is centered around ethnography and design fictions. It is designed to provide a deeper understanding of all the stakeholders involved in the scenario while encouraging ethical reflection. Based on our findings, we argue that, while it is relatively easy to adopt an a priori ethical stance through notions such as inclusivity and accessibility, there are risks involved in making such a priori prescriptions with respect to the perspectives of different stakeholders in an applied research project. More specifically, we highlight the importance of understanding the broad organizational and bureaucratic characteristics of a business or workplace when devising HRI scenarios and tasks, and of considering elements such as business models, operating philosophy, and organizational hierarchies in the design process.

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