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Last updated Sep 6, 2023

—- title: “2023-07-23” —- Related to CHI Paper and Thesis

• 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
  • Sprint
    • 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

• 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

• Goals and Objectives
  • Write your research questions
    • I want to uncover imaginaries
    • Then visualize them
• 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)

• # 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/
    • Content analysis
  • 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
• 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

• 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
    • 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
    • Post-sprint
      • Content analysis, thematic analysis
  • 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
    • Sources/One Week in the Future
    • Eliciting Tech Futures Among Black Young Adults
• Option 2: Workshop
  • Timeline: 1 day, 2 hours max
  • Process
    • How would you imagine this….based on this prompt?
      • Problem
      • Solution
    • Discuss
  • Ideas
    • maybe they have to come up with something based on a card deck? Transfeminist Technologies
  • References
    • When happy accidents spark creativity
    • Atlas/Maps/HUMAN ENOUGH