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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"DESIGN FICTION"”.
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A thesis about design fiction
… of cryptographic currencies, and I encountered Design Fiction for the first time when assembling a methodology for that project. I was enticed by the rhetoric around Design Fiction and the aesthetic of works describing themselves as Design Fiction. However, as I researched the concept more …
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AI Adventure Camp: developing critical thinking and ethical artificial intelligence literacy through design fiction and digital constructionism
… over the course of the camp and examines the design challenges and successes of the first iteration of AI Adventure Camp.
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Accessible Gaming Wearables: Opportunities for Players with Upper Limb Motor Disabilities
… wearable technology. Secondly, I explored the design space of accessible gaming wearables using participatory design fiction sessions to envision the future of wearable technology and accessible video games. My study also offers methodological contributions to the HCI community by demonstrating …
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When Designers Ask, "What If?"
… the conventions of narrative storytelling with design prototyping is an emerging area of study. The practice is known as design fiction, and the resulting stories, create compelling speculations of near and distant futures made more believable, and therefore more provocative, through realistic …
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Obstacles to wearable computing
… This study uses a novel method of participatory design fiction (PDFi) to understand potential users of everyday wearable technology through storytelling. I recruited participants from the general public and gave them a five-point prompt to create a design fiction (DF), which inspired the …
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Designing for Reflection: Utilizing slow technology to create tangible interactive designs for reducing technostress
… these interactions. Using the lens of critical design, this thesis explores this concept of technology induced stress and promotes reflection, personal growth and awareness through three different design research methods. It further builds on the topic of slow technology which unfolds in the …
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Design as criticism: methods for a critical graphic design practice
… research is the result of an interest in graphic design as a specific critical activity. Existing in the context of the 2008 financial and subsequent political crisis, both this thesis and my work are situated in an expaded field of graphic design. This research examines the emergence of the terms …
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Territorial Violence and Design, 1950-2010: A Human-Computer Study of Personal Space and Chatbot Interaction
… into account interventions made in fine art, design, fiction and film that are omitted from a history of agent technology. The thesis re-interprets Edward Hall’s work on proxemics, personal space and territoriality, using techniques of the bricoleur and rudiments (an undeveloped and …
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Ideas Exchange: Design and the post bio-tech-body
This thesis situates speculative design as a valuable tool for thinking about design issues and the body. Bringing together historical, theoretical criticism and practice to show that speculative design is intimately linked with the body. The thesis’ arguments build on the basis that both the body …
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The Dark House and its Inhabitants
<p>From the inception of the genre, Gothic horror has been fixated on the domestic space in distress. This essay explores domestic archetypes and roles of the Gothic novel, serving as a “tour of the house”, analyzing the iconography of the dark castle, and how it externalizes and exacerbates the …
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Undefinitive
… Through references to body art, speculative fiction, and queer theory, I reimagine femininity and queerness as forces capable of dismantaling societal structure and forging new modes of existence.</p> <p>Set in a post-apocalyptic world where consciousness inhabits non-human forms, …
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Laughing in the Wrong Places: Daniel Clowes and the Danger of Nostalgia
… to this essay, placing my narrative voice in a fictional post-apocalyptic scenario. I did this because I am a fiction writer and this position felt natural, but also I wanted to emphasize the real stakes facing the United States in our upcoming election. In this essay, I focus on blending visual …
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Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation
… of affection for their source material, and are designed to sit alongside the original tale, not replace it. The relationship between fairytales and their adaptations is further fleshed out through world-building and a sense of place. W.H. Auden’s <em>Secondary Worlds</em> sheds light on how the …
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Impact Fiction: the Gentle Art of Bending the Near Future.
… and performs, a novel way of practicing design, to inform the core methodology of a new design practice; one seeking near future impact-innovation outcomes — cornerstoned to build Agency for our Elder* segment. The mainstay thesis question, evolved to ask: ‘How can ‘Mind—based Capital’ …