FeaturesSpecial topic: Design futures

XXV.2 March-April 2018
Page: 36
Digital Citation

Can we look to science fiction for innovation in HCI?


Authors:
Daniel Russell, Svetlana Yarosh

We all want to invent the future. One approach to future invention is the notion that real design and science can be inspired by science fiction narratives, which define and illuminate user interaction issues [1]. Science fiction takes its future-facing ideas fairly seriously, and considerable ink has been spilled to argue for the ways in which science fiction gets the future right [2]. We commonly talk about a Blade Runner social dystopia and link current events and news about upcoming technologies as coming from, being derived from, or having been presciently predicted by science fiction. We may even aspire…




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