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

Oguz'Oz' Buruk; Oguzhan Özcan; Gökçe Elif Baykal; Tilbe Göksun; Ceylan Beşevli; Joe Best; Hüseyin Ugur Genç; A. Baki Kocaballi; Annika Wolff; null More Authors

doi:10.1145/3334480.3381821

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

Oguz'Oz' Buruk, Oguzhan Özcan, Gökçe Elif Baykal, Tilbe Göksun, Ceylan Beşevli, Joe Best, Hüseyin Ugur Genç, A. Baki Kocaballi, Annika Wolff, More Authors

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6819-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381821
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2020 - Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20
Other	Virtual/online event due to COVID-19

Keywords

Augmented human
Brain-machine interface
Children
Cyborg
Design fiction
Interaction design
Posthumanism
Speculation
Transhumanism
Wearables

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Buruk, OO., Özcan, O., Baykal, G. E., Göksun, T., Beşevli, C., Best, J., Genç, H. U., Kocaballi, A. B., Wolff, A., & More Authors (2020). Children in 2077: Designing children's technologies in the age of transhumanism. In CHI EA 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 3381821 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381821

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