@inproceedings{d018fb5badfc4204a9ac589539adfb5a,
title = "On Speculative Enactments",
abstract = "Speculative Enactments are a novel approach to speculative design research with participants. They invite the empirical analysis of participants acting amidst speculative but consequential circumstances. HCI as a broadly pragmatic, experience-centered, and participant-focused field is well placed to innovate methods that invite first-hand interaction and experience with speculative design projects. We discuss three case studies of this approach in practice, based on our own work: Runner Spotters, Metadating and a Quantified Wedding. In distinguishing Speculative Enactments we offer not just practical guidelines, but a set of conceptual resources for researchers and practitioners to critique the different contributions that speculative approaches make to HCI discourse.",
keywords = "critical futures, design fiction, research through design, data-driven life, design methods, speculative design",
author = "Chris Elsden and David Chatting and Durrant, {Abigail C.} and Andrew Garbett and Bettina Nissen and John Vines and Kirk, {David S.}",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/3025453.3025503",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450346559",
series = "CHI '17",
publisher = "ACM Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "5386–5399",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
note = "2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 ; Conference date: 06-05-2017 Through 11-05-2017",
}