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“No powers, man!”: A student perspective on designing university smart building interactions [PDF]
Smart buildings offer an opportunity for better performance and enhanced experience by contextualising services and interactions to the needs and practices of occupants.
Alavi Hamed S. +15 more
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When considering the democratic intentions of co-design, designers and design researchers must evaluate the impact of power imbalances embedded in common design and research dynamics.
Kirsten E. Bray +4 more
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Counterfactual and alternative histories as design practice
The version of design that was shaped and perfected during the 20th Century played a huge role in the making of the modern (global northern) world. Whilst design’s potential as a contributor to the making of worlds is clear, its methods, metrics and ...
James Auger, Julian Hanna
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Games as speculative design:allowing players to consider alternate presents and plausible futures [PDF]
As games are inherently about exploring alternative worlds this paper proposes the utilisation of games as a medium for speculative design through which players can explore scenarios that represent plausible alternative presents and speculative futures ...
Burnett, Dan +2 more
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Problematising upstream technology through speculative design: the case of quantified cats and dogs [PDF]
There is growing interest in technology that quantifies aspects of our lives. This paper draws on critical practice and speculative design to explore, question and problematise the ultimate consequences of such technology using the quantification of ...
Feltwell, Tom +4 more
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AI is rapidly becoming enmeshed in our professional and private lives. The ubiquity of such technologies raises a host of ethical questions, value clashes, and unforeseen consequences that must be confronted.
S. Ashby +5 more
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TMbarrier: speculative barriers using hardware transactional memory [PDF]
Barrier is a very common synchronization method used in parallel programming. Barriers are used typically to enforce a partial thread execution order, since there may be dependences between code sections before and after the barrier.
Gutierrez-Carrasco, Eladio Damian +2 more
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Metaverse Perspectives from Japan: A Participatory Speculative Design Case Study [PDF]
Currently, the development of the metaverse lies in the hands of industry. Citizens have little influence on this process. Instead, to do justice to the pluralism of (digital) societies, we should strive for an open discourse including many different ...
Michel Hohendanner +6 more
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BLACK MIRROR: A NOVEL APPLICATION OF SPECULATIVE DESIGN TO FACILITATE CONTEXT-AWARE DESIGN THINKING
As design thinking became popularized, practitioners in the field pointed out that design thinking rarely takes stakeholders and contexts into account as a result of focusing solely on end-users.
Kyung seo Jung +4 more
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Natural and artificial interaction. Symbiotic processes between science, art and design
The contribution will focus on how the concept of ‘living’ in the contemporary vision of design, with regard to vegetation, influences design culture, a concept constantly faced with the environmental context through practices of imitation of the logic ...
Federica Dal Falco +2 more
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