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Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home

Nilsson, Tommy; Fischer, Joel E.; Crabtree, Andy; Goulden, Murray; Spence, Jocelyn; Costanza, Enrico

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Authors

Tommy Nilsson

JOEL FISCHER Joel.Fischer@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction

Jocelyn Spence

Enrico Costanza



Abstract

UbiComp has been envisioned to bring about a future dominated by calm computing technologies making our everyday lives ever more convenient. Yet the same vision has also attracted criticism for encouraging a solitary and passive lifestyle. The aim of this paper is to explore and elaborate these tensions further by examining the human values surrounding future domestic UbiComp solutions. Drawing on envisioning and contravisioning, we probe members of the public (N=28) through the presentation and focus group discussion of two contrasting animated video scenarios, where one is inspired by 'calm' and the other by 'engaging' visions of future UbiComp technology. By analysing the reasoning of our participants, we identify and elaborate a number of relevant values involved in balancing the two perspectives. In conclusion, we articulate practically applicable takeaways in the form of a set of key design questions and challenges.

Citation

Nilsson, T., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Goulden, M., Spence, J., & Costanza, E. (2020). Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home. In DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (827–839). https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395476

Conference Name DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020
Conference Location Eindhoven Netherlands
Start Date Jul 6, 2020
End Date Jul 10, 2020
Acceptance Date Apr 15, 2020
Online Publication Date Jul 3, 2020
Publication Date Jul 3, 2020
Deposit Date May 14, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages 827–839
Book Title DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
ISBN 9781450369749
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395476
Keywords Author Keywords Contravision; Design Fiction; Envisioning; Food Technology; Scenarios; Smart Home; UbiComp; Values in Design; Videos CCS Concepts; Human-centered computing; Scenario-based design; Human computer interaction (HCI); Empirical studies in HCI
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4436556
Publisher URL https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3357236.3395476
Related Public URLs https://dis.acm.org/2020/

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