Children in 2077: Designing children's technologies in the age of transhumanism
Paper in proceeding, 2020
What for and how will we design children's technologies in the transhumanism age, and what stance will we take as designers? This paper aims to answer this question with 13 fictional abstracts from sixteen authors of different countries, institutions and disciplines. Transhumanist thinking envisions enhancing human body and mind by blending human biology with technological augmentations. Fundamentally, it seeks to improve the human species, yet the impacts of such movement are unknown and the implications on children's lives and technologies were not explored deeply. In an age, where technologies such as under-skin chips or brain-machine interfaces can clearly be defined as transhumanist, our aim is to reveal probable pitfalls and benefits of those technologies on children's lives by using the power of design fiction. Thus, main contribution of this paper is to create diverse presentation of provocative research ideas that will foster the discussion on the transhumanist technologies impacting the lives of children in the future.
Design fiction
Wearables
Speculation
Cyborg
Brain-machine interface
Transhumanism
Posthumanism
Augmented human
Children
Interaction design
Author
Oguz'Oz' Buruk
University of Tampere
Oguzhan Özcan
Koç University
Gökçe Elif Baykal
Aarhus University
Tilbe Göksun
State University of New York
Selçuk Acar
Kadir Has University
Güler Akduman
Kadir Has University
Mehmet Aydin Baytas
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design
Koç University
Ceylan Beşevli
University of Nottingham
Joe Best
Koç University
Aykut Coşkun
Koç University
Hüseyin Ugur Genç
Australian Institute of Health Innovation
A. Baki Kocaballi
University of Turku
Samuli Laato
National Institute of Industrial Property
Cássia Mota
Rochester Institute of Technology
Konstantinos Papangelis
Rochester Institute of Technology
Marigo Raftopoulos
University of Nottingham
Richard Ramchurn
University of Nottingham
Juan Sádaba
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Mattia Thibault
University of Tampere
Annika Wolff
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)
Mert Yildiz
Koç University
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
3381821
9781450368193 (ISBN)
2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2020
Honolulu, USA,
Honolulu, USA,
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Design
Interaction Technologies
Human Aspects of ICT
DOI
10.1145/3334480.3381821