TY - GEN
T1 - Ethics and Power Dynamics in Playful Technology for Animals
T2 - 24th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, Mindtrek 2021
AU - French, Fiona
AU - Hirskyj-Douglas, Ilyena
AU - Väätäjä, Heli
AU - Pons, Patricia
AU - Karl, Sabrina
AU - Chisik, Yoram
AU - Nannoni, Eleonora
AU - Zamansky, Anna
AU - Mangat, Mandeep
AU - Paci, Patrizia
AU - Kasuga, Haruka
AU - Vilker, Dana
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/6/1
Y1 - 2021/6/1
N2 - Technology (digital or otherwise) is a great enabler; it bridges gaps and opens doors and, in the process, alters the reality within which it and its users exist. As technology aimed at non-human animals is becoming commonplace, questions about its efficacy and the ethical implications of its use are becoming ever more pertinent. To explore these issues, we conducted a workshop in which speculative design was used as a means of debating ways through which play, a widespread phenomenon across animal species, can be used as a tool for enabling interspecies communication. We describe the context for this discussion, the methods used, and present a set of speculative designs that illustrate aspects of ethics, equality, and appropriate play in order to provoke further reflection and discussion.
AB - Technology (digital or otherwise) is a great enabler; it bridges gaps and opens doors and, in the process, alters the reality within which it and its users exist. As technology aimed at non-human animals is becoming commonplace, questions about its efficacy and the ethical implications of its use are becoming ever more pertinent. To explore these issues, we conducted a workshop in which speculative design was used as a means of debating ways through which play, a widespread phenomenon across animal species, can be used as a tool for enabling interspecies communication. We describe the context for this discussion, the methods used, and present a set of speculative designs that illustrate aspects of ethics, equality, and appropriate play in order to provoke further reflection and discussion.
KW - Animal-Computer Interaction
KW - co-design
KW - ethics
KW - participatory speculation
KW - power dynamics
KW - speculative design
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85115056758
U2 - 10.1145/3464327.3464366
DO - 10.1145/3464327.3464366
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 91
EP - 101
BT - Academic Mindtrek 2021 - Proceedings of the 24th International Academic Mindtrek Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 1 June 2021 through 3 June 2021
ER -