Future of Intimate Artefacts: A Speculative Design Investigation
Jasmine Kaur, Rishabh Devgon, Smera Goel, Arunesh Singh, Kyzyl Monteiro, Advika Singh · 2022
Intimacy is an important subdomain in emotional communication and has garnered widespread attention in the HCI community. However, the future of intimacy coupled with upcoming technologies remains under-explored. What could intimate artefacts look like in the future? We try to answer this by exploring intimacy from a speculative design perspective. In this paper, we discuss the process of artefact design, world building, audience interaction planning and engagement and conclude with the results of a participatory speculative design project, capturing participants through objects of intimacy. Our work aims to catalyse meaningful conversations about intimacy in the future, expanding to new HCI research avenues.