—- title: “2023-07-23” —- Related to AI-Enabled Design Futuring and E-MAHINASYON
# Research
# Ideas
- Study
- Collect data then make speculative design from it
- How to do ethnography digitally?
- Maybe through Interviews and field observations?
- Engineers imaginaries were studied in a similar way
- Or foresight research (a.k.a. semi-structured interviews with experts) supplemented with desk research
- As seen in postcards from the future
- Con: would require a specific focus already (future of work perhaps? Something labor related)
- Co-design/participatory design
- Workshop
- Option 1: researcher generates the art
- Given a prompt, they write down descriptions of how they’d envision the future
- researcher puts their descriptions in a text to image generator (may have bias though)
- They are interviewed about it?
- Option 2: Teach them how to AI art
- Then give them a prompt that makes them envision the future
- Maybe they also go through a workbook
- Analyze their responses
- Option 1: researcher generates the art
- xssSprint
- Follow 1 week in the future method, but with AI tools?
- Decide if group setting or if working 1:1 with people
- Co-speculating with sketches and prototypes
- Maybe the interactive workbook can be made on Figma? So that it’s easy to edit?
- Process:
- Ideation
- Storyboarding
- Sketching? (Planning out your prompts before you try them out)
- Prompt Engineering
- Sharing
- Workshop
# References
- Sources/Postcards from the Future: Speculating the Future of Built Environments with Citizens
- Sources/When happy accidents spark creativity: Bringing collaborative speculation to life with generative AI
- Sources/Value-driven design approach to envision speculative futures
- Sources/How Engineers Imaginaries of Healthcare Shape Design and User Engagement: A Case Study of a Robotics Initiative for Geriatric Healthcare AI Applications
- Sources/Values by Design Imaginaries: : Exploring Values Work in UX Practice
- Atlas/Maps/HUMAN ENOUGH: A Space for Reconstructions of AI visions in Speculative Climate Futures
- Sources/Eliciting Tech Futures Among Black Young Adults: A Case Study of Remote Speculative Co-Design
# Protocol
- Goals and Objectives
- Write your research questions
- I want to uncover imaginaries
- Then visualize them
- Write your research questions
- Subject recruitment criteria
- Methods
- Contributions
- Types: Empirical and Artifact
- Ideas:
- Empirical data from mixed method study
- Critical analysis on Filipino technologists’ perceptions about the future
- Design implications in the Philippine tech scene? (In terms of ethics)
# Thesis
# Research questions:
- Option 1: Foresight research + participant feedback
- Process
- Pre-study
- Desk research: collect scientific articles, analyze themes through affinity diagram
- Semi-structured interviews with experts working on at least 2 themes
- Postcards created based on concepts identified in interviews
- Study
- FGD (pre-launch):
- 1-2 hours?
- Ask participants for first thoughts, possible scenarios, and critical issues
- Feedback here may be used for revision
- Pop-up setting (post-launch):
- Viewers can leave a comment on a card? they choose
- Something like https://pluriverse.world/
- FGD (pre-launch):
- Content analysis
- Pre-study
- Participant criteria
- Interview experts only…those who have
- Ideas
- Instead of postcards with still images, what if I made short films? Could be as simple as the still image films here: https://anna-zhang.com/mind
- References
- Ambient Tech Report
- Postcards from the Future
- Process
- Option 2: Ethnography
- Process
- semi-structured interviews w/ target audience?
- field observations + informal interviews at events (participating)
- Participant criteria
- References
- Intersecting Imaginaries
- UrbanIxD
- Sources/How Engineers Imaginaries of Healthcare Shape Design and User Engagement
- Sources/Values by Design Imaginaries
- Process
# CHI Paper
- Research questions:
- In what ways does AI support the generation of ideas for an utopian future for Filipino youth?
- What are Filipino youth’s imagined utopian and dystopian futures, and what role does technology play in these?
- How might design fictions as a method of futuring elicit new ideas that speak to Filipino youth’s concepts of a utopian reality?
- Option 1: Sprint
- Timeline: 1 week
- Process
- Pre-sprint
- Create/modify workbook
- Do this in Figma
- Survey participants to get demographic data
- Create/modify workbook
- Sprint
- Day 1:
- Introduction to futuring
- Reflection
- Future Envisioning
- Scenario writing
- Day 2:
- Introduction to Midjourney
- Design concept making
- Day 3:
- Introduction to storyboarding
- Storyboarding
- Day 4:
- Storyboarding
- Day 5
- Review
- Maybe share with other participants?
- Final Modification
- Day 1:
- Post-sprint
- Content analysis, thematic analysis
- Pre-sprint
- Ideas
- Maybe I can just film videos (on Loom)? For async education. No need for a call. Everything can be put on a Notion
- Have check-ins each day?
- References
- Option 2: Workshop
- Timeline: 1 day, 2 hours max
- Process
- How would you imagine this….based on this prompt?
- Problem
- Solution
- Discuss
- How would you imagine this….based on this prompt?
- Ideas
- maybe they have to come up with something based on a card deck? Transfeminist Technologies
- References