Children in 2077: Designing children's technologies in the age of transhumanism
Paper i 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.

Augmented human

Interaction design

Cyborg

Speculation

Children

Brain-machine interface

Transhumanism

Posthumanism

Design fiction

Wearables

Författare

Oguz'Oz' Buruk

Tampereen Yliopisto

Oguzhan Özcan

Koç Üniversitesi

GÖkçe Elif Baykal

Aarhus Universitet

Tilbe Göksun

SUNY Buffalo

Selçuk Acar

Kadir Has Üniversitesi

Güler Akduman

Mehmet Aydin Baytas

Koç Üniversitesi

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign

Ceylan Beşevli

University of Nottingham

Joe Best

Koç Üniversitesi

Aykut Coşkun

Koç Üniversitesi

Hüseyin Ugur Genç

Australian Institute of Health Innovation

A. Baki Kocaballi

Turun Yliopisto

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

Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Mattia Thibault

Tampereen Yliopisto

Annika Wolff

Lappeenrannan-Lahden teknillinen yliopisto (LUT)

Mert Yildiz

Koç Üniversitesi

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,

Ämneskategorier

Design

Interaktionsteknik

Mänsklig interaktion med IKT

DOI

10.1145/3334480.3381821

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2022-06-03