Near Future Cities of Things: Addressing Dilemmas Through Design Fiction

Maria Luce Lupetti; Iskander Smit; Nazli Cila

doi:10.1145/3240167.3240273

Near Future Cities of Things: Addressing Dilemmas Through Design Fiction

Maria Luce Lupetti, Iskander Smit, Nazli Cila

Human Information Communication Design

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Abstract

The smart city infrastructure will soon start to include smart agents, i.e., agentic things, which co-exist and co-perform with human citizens. This near-future scenario explores the flexible types of collaborations and relationships between the human and nonhuman citizens. Drawing on current technology forecasts and AI/robotics literature, we created five fictional concepts for reflecting on themes we deem important for such collaborations: responsibility, delegation, relationship, priority, and adaptation. The promises, challenges and threats of these themes are discussed in this paper, together with the new questions that were opened up through the use of design fiction as a method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NordiCHI'18
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	787-800
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-6437-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240273
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2018 - Oslo, Norway Duration: 29 Sept 2018 → 3 Oct 2018

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Conference	10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2018
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Oslo
Period	29/09/18 → 3/10/18

Keywords

Agentic things
Co-performance
Design fiction
Dilemmas
Future scenario
Smart cities

UN SDGs

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Lupetti, ML, Smit, I & Cila, N 2018, Near Future Cities of Things: Addressing Dilemmas Through Design Fiction. in NordiCHI'18: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, pp. 787-800, 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2018, Oslo, Norway, 29/09/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240273

Near Future Cities of Things: Addressing Dilemmas Through Design Fiction. / Lupetti, Maria Luce; Smit, Iskander; Cila, Nazli.
NordiCHI'18: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 787-800.

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