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Experiencing the Future Mundane: Configuring Design Fiction as Breaching Experiment

Crabtree, Andy; Lodge, Tom; Sailaja, Neelima; Chamberlain, Alan; Coulton, Paul; Pilling, Matthew; Forrester, Ian

Authors

Tom Lodge

Paul Coulton

Matthew Pilling

Ian Forrester



Abstract

This paper introduces a novel methodological approach for surfacing the acceptability and adoption challenges that confront future and emerging technologies from the perspective of mundane action, in which they will ultimately be embedded and used. This novel approach configures design fiction as a breaching experiment to surface taken for granted background expectancies that are fateful for acceptability and adoption. We explain the logic of this new interdisciplinary method and present a concrete case to demonstrate its viability: a design fiction called Experiencing the Future Mundane (EFM), which depicts a future world in which watching TV is driven by smart adaptive media. We explicate the design of the EFM, how it was configured to breach common sense knowledge and surface taken for granted background expectancies concerning how watching TV works and is expected to work, the acceptability and adoption challenges that emerge from user engagement with the experience, and how this novel approach may be adopted more broadly.

Citation

Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Sailaja, N., Chamberlain, A., Coulton, P., Pilling, M., & Forrester, I. (in press). Experiencing the Future Mundane: Configuring Design Fiction as Breaching Experiment. Human-Computer Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 9, 2025
Deposit Date Jan 15, 2025
Journal Human Computer Interaction
Print ISSN 0737-0024
Electronic ISSN 1532-7051
Publisher Taylor and Francis
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555
Keywords Future and emerging technologies; acceptability and adoption; design fiction; experiential futures; breaching experiment; ethnomethodology
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/44229552

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