Material Speculation: Actual Artifacts for Critical Inquiry

• DOI: 10.7146/aahcc.v1i1.21299
• Publication Date: 2015-10-14T11:43:29Z
• Authors: Ron Wakkary; William Odom; Sabrina Hauser; Garnet Hertz; Henry Lin
• Keywords: Material speculation; Speculative design; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Design fiction; Critical inquiry; 02 engineering and technology

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Speculative and fictional approaches have long been implemented in human-computer interaction design techniques through scenarios, prototypes, forecasting, envisionments. Recently, speculative critical reflectively explored questioned possible, preferable futures HCI research. We propose a complementary concept – material speculation that utilizes actual situated artifacts the everyday as site of inquiry. see literary theory possible worlds related counterfactual informative to this work. present five examples can be viewed speculations. conclude with discussion characteristics speculations their implications for future design-oriented research.</span></p></div></div></div>