Wearable Identities: Understanding Wearables’ Potential for Supporting the Expression of Queer Identities

Accessible Gaming Wearables: Opportunities for Players with Upper Limb Motor Disabilities

“…We combined this method with participatory design, allowing participants to collectively create narratives on fictional characters, fostering an inclusive and open dialogue without the fear of discrimination. Design fiction has been successfully used with different marginalized groups to elicit stories of lived experiences [19][20][21][22]. In these instances, using design fiction allowed the research on marginalized groups to focus on their ideal futures and how technology can support them.…”

“…As Bleecker et al describe in the Manual of Design Fiction [18], design fiction is a highly collaborative design method that thrives on the input and perspective from multiple perspectives to contribute to design research. Design fiction and a similar method of future design speculation, speculative design, have been found to have particularly successful applications in bringing marginalized groups into design research and providing space and opportunity for these groups to design their ideal futures [22]. Marginalized groups design fiction and speculative design have included the black community [19,20], the trans community [21], and the queer community [22].…”

“…Design fiction and a similar method of future design speculation, speculative design, have been found to have particularly successful applications in bringing marginalized groups into design research and providing space and opportunity for these groups to design their ideal futures [22]. Marginalized groups design fiction and speculative design have included the black community [19,20], the trans community [21], and the queer community [22]. Our study aims to extend this method to include the disabled community and envision how this marginalized community envisions the future of gaming wearables.…”

“…Though widely used, we observed the variety of media used to represent design fiction archetypes is somewhat limited. There have been ventures outside of posters, storyboards, and physical prototypes, such as work booklets used to explore social eating practices [106] and body maps used to explore queer expres-sion through wearable technology [22]. Here we present the use of a YouTube video as a new media to represent design fiction archetypes in HCI research.…”