Dr Ingi Helgason i.helgason@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Dr Ingi Helgason i.helgason@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Dr Michael Smyth M.Smyth@napier.ac.uk
Professor
Ethnographically informed research that investigates people's lived experiences, emotions, attitudes and behaviours inevitably draws primarily on current and past situations. Design practice is naturally concerned with using research to inform the creation of products, services, and interventions that are intended to change the future. Speculative Design has a particular interest in future scenarios that address essential human attitudes, assumptions and concerns. This raises the question of whether alternative design research methods should be used for Speculative Design projects. This paper presents one such adaptation; Fictional Ethnography, that has been trialled in an educational workshop setting. The paper describes the rationale behind the approach, situates it in relation to previous work, and sets out intentions for developing the work further.
Helgason, I., & Smyth, M. (2020, July). Ethnographic Fictions: Research for Speculative Design. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (published) |
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Conference Name | DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020 |
Start Date | Jul 6, 2020 |
End Date | Jul 20, 2020 |
Acceptance Date | Apr 9, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 6, 2020 |
Publication Date | Jul 6, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Jul 31, 2020 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 203-207 |
ISBN | 9781450379878 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395872 |
Keywords | Speculative design; ethnography; design methods; design fiction; user research; narratives. |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2679197 |
Publisher URL | https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393914.3395872 |
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