Design Fictions and Extreme Users

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[ UUID ] 25443783-f410-4127-a0b8-e54e3e368e5a

[ Session Name ] Design Fictions and Extreme Users [ Primary Space ] Privacy and Security

[ Submitter's Name ] Roxanne Leitão [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] University of the Arts London [ Submitter's GitHub ] @roxanne-leitao

What will happen in your session?

This session will explore the potential of Design Fictions and Extreme Users in deconstructing privacy and security issues of near-future technologies.

The session will be driven by a series of personas or extreme users, based on real-world research with survivors of domestic abuse, where technology played a significant role in the abuse (e.g., cyber-stalking, -harassment, and covert monitoring).

Participants will be introduced to 1) the personas and 2) to the underlying principles of design fictions. In groups, we will then create design fictions focussed on the future of smart homes from the point-of-view of victims of domestic abuse.

Participants will be asked to approach the fictions from a perspective of cyber-security and -privacy design.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The session aims to broaden discussions on privacy and security to include users that are often denied a voice, such as victims of domestic abuse. Current technology development trends point to ever-increasing data collection and sharing. Concepts for the Social Internet of Things envision automated data and services exchange between devices in close physical proximity, or between devices in a “relationship” (even if they belong to different people). Although these visions of the future may not be seen as an issue for many users, we believe that the design of cyber-privacy and -security can greatly benefit from learning from extreme user cases. Therefore, the main goal of the session is to make discussions on cyber-privacy and -security more inclusive.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Projector for showing examples of design fictions and displaying the personas.

Paper, pens, post-it notes to supplement the materials that I will bring for creating design fictions.

Time needed

90 mins

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The Privacy and Security team love this proposal. We're going to accept for our Mozfest schedule this year. Please look out for further communications via email in the coming days.

Congratulations @roxanne-leitao!

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Notification sent via Twitter. https://twitter.com/MozFestPrivSec/status/1032981004720451585 Further comms to come.

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Looks good!

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Confirming the addition of - Isabel Lopez-Neira AND Pras Gunasekera - to your session and ticketing.