Communicate, Critique and Co-create (CCC) Future Technologies through Design Fictions in VR Environment
Ajit G. Pillai, Naseem Ahmadpour, Soojeong Yoo, Ahmet Baki Kocaballi, Sonja Pedell, Vinoth Pandian Sermuga Pandian, Sarah Suleri · 2020
Design fiction enables HCI and design researchers to co-create, explore and speculate the future. It is growing in popularity given the growing complexities of emerging HCI systems and innovations. Diegetic props (like sound, videos, images) are sometimes used in design fiction to blur the lines between imagination and reality. These props enable the designers to be empathetic, feel present in the fiction as they investigate the complexity of technologies explored within the fiction, critique these technologies and think about their consequences. With a higher level of immersion and sense of embodiment, Virtual Reality (VR) can be a powerful tool for mediating and creating design fiction. However, there are few examples of VR as platform for design fiction. This workshop aims to investigate new opportunities for communicating, critiquing and co-creating design fiction narratives in immersive VR environments.