Promoting Criticality through Design Futuring with Young Children

Sumita Sharma, Noura Howell, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Netta Iivari, Grace Eden, Heidi Hartikainen, Marianne Kinnula, Eva Durall Gazulla, Michael Nitsche, Jussi Okkonen, Supratim Pait, Elisa Rubegni, Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer, Lonneke van der Velden, Uttishta Sreerama Varanasi

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Abstract

As children’s everyday interaction with emerging technologies increases, they need to develop criticality to navigate ethical impacts of technology and when imagining futures with technology. We explore how design futuring can facilitate children’s criticality through four different workshops with children from India, Finland, and the USA. Participants imagined futures with technologies while critically considering ethical impacts. In the findings, themes related to empowerment and ethics emerged in children’s imagined futures. We discuss promoting criticality and empowerment with children’s imagined futures, and how these futures can respond to diverse, local issues based on their lived experiences. Our work diversifies design research by highlighting local futures, and the criticality of those imagined futures, from children across the world.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLive - Uniting HCI for a Hyperlocal and Global Experience
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2024
PublisherACM
ISBN (Electronic)979-8-4007-0966-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Oct 2024
MoE publication typeA4 Conference publication
EventNordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Uppsala, Sweden
Duration: 13 Oct 202416 Oct 2024
Conference number: 13
https://www.nordichi2024.se/

Conference

ConferenceNordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Abbreviated titleNordiCHI
Country/TerritorySweden
CityUppsala
Period13/10/202416/10/2024
Internet address

Keywords

  • Child-centered AI
  • Children and AI
  • Design Futuring
  • Global South

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