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The Role Of Service Design In Designing And Developing Ai Applications: Scoping Review, Yi En Isabel Tan, Jung-Joo Lee
The Role Of Service Design In Designing And Developing Ai Applications: Scoping Review, Yi En Isabel Tan, Jung-Joo Lee
IASDR Conference Series
Designing AI products presents novel challenges that traditional design methods may be insufficient to tackle. With a growing shift from design of "products" to "services", service design is a promising approach to facing these new and unique challenges. However, little research has been done to understand how service design may contribute, or to identify how it might have been adopted and used in existing projects where AI solutions were designed. This research performed a scoping review on extant publications that highlighted two things: challenges faced by designers that perceived a role of service design, and how service design has been …
Particling Night: The Design Of An Emerging Media Artwork As A Tool For Reflection On Superficiality Of Social Media, Seoyeong Hwang, Kyungho Lee
Particling Night: The Design Of An Emerging Media Artwork As A Tool For Reflection On Superficiality Of Social Media, Seoyeong Hwang, Kyungho Lee
IASDR Conference Series
This study explores the potential of interactive media art to promote reflection on ourselves living in social networks. The prevalence of social media platforms has increased our social connections, yet research suggests a rise in loneliness and isolation. We created an interactive media artwork using speech-to-text technology and generative visualization to reflect on the meaning of relationships in the age of digitized human connections as well as the superficiality of social media networks we developed. User surveys and observations revealed that our artwork helped our audience to have reflection through artistic experiences. The findings suggest that multi-modal art experiences and …
Ai And The Conditions Of Design: Towards A New Set Of Design Ideals, Elisa Giaccardi, Chris Speed, Johan Redström, Somaya Ben Allouch, Irina Shklovski, Rachel Charlotte Smith
Ai And The Conditions Of Design: Towards A New Set Of Design Ideals, Elisa Giaccardi, Chris Speed, Johan Redström, Somaya Ben Allouch, Irina Shklovski, Rachel Charlotte Smith
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The five papers in the DRS 2022 track “AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards A New Set of Design Ideals” offer radical lenses to change the narrative around AI and open pathways towards pluralist digital futures, signaling redirections for experimenting with more inclusive and imaginative design practices.
A More-Than-Human Right-To-Repair, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton
A More-Than-Human Right-To-Repair, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Whilst the recent introduction of the Right-to-Repair to European citizens is undoubtedly a step forward in tackling planned obsolescence, and the resultant deluge of electronic product waste – the efficacy of this new legislation is reliant on consumers availing themselves of this right. Given that repairing and maintaining devices will often require specialist knowledge and skills, it is difficult to assess how effective this right may prove to be in practice. To address this concern, we draw from the expanding infusion of datafication and Artificial Intelligence into everyday products and services via the Internet of Things to consider alternative futures …
Mutant In The Mirror: Queer Becomings With Ai, Grace Leonora Turtle
Mutant In The Mirror: Queer Becomings With Ai, Grace Leonora Turtle
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper contributes to scholarly discourse on design and AI by using queerness as a theoretical grounding to explore potentialities for design to interface with and imagine artificial intelligence (AI) differently. The paper does so by reporting on an autotheoretical experiment in which I pose the questions: What if we understood AI as queer, a kind of mutant, in a state of becoming; a dynamic, relational, non-binary gender variant? How then might AI show up in and act on the world (with us humans) differently? The experiment uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to unsettle how AI is understood today, …
Towards A Heuristic Model For Experiential Ai: Analysing The Zizi Show In The New Real, Drew Hemment, Martin Zeilinger, Matjaz Vidmar, Jake Elwes, Holly Warner, David Sarmiento, Robin Hill
Towards A Heuristic Model For Experiential Ai: Analysing The Zizi Show In The New Real, Drew Hemment, Martin Zeilinger, Matjaz Vidmar, Jake Elwes, Holly Warner, David Sarmiento, Robin Hill
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Based on the rapid pace of evolving creative practice in AI arts, we identify an urgent need to develop frameworks for analysing the critical dimensions (including social/political) of this emerging field. This paper offers a comprehensive case study of The Zizi Show, by Jake Elwes, developed as part of The New Real and Experiential AI programme at the Edinburgh Futures Institute within the University of Edinburgh. Based on this case study analysis, we propose the structuring of distinct project characteristics into four categories (socio-cultural and institutional aspects; technology and media; artistic experience and affect; and audience and staging) which form …
From Explanations To Shared Understandings Of Ai, Iohanna Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi, Johan Redström
From Explanations To Shared Understandings Of Ai, Iohanna Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi, Johan Redström
DRS Biennial Conference Series
A key challenge in the design of AI systems is how to support people in understanding them. We address this challenge by positioning explanations in everyday life, within ongoing relations between people and artificial agents. By reorienting explainability through more-than-human design, we call for a new approach that considers both people and artificial agents as active participants in constructing understandings. To articulate such an approach, we first review the assumptions underpinning the premise of explaining AI. We then conceptualize a shift from explanations to shared understandings, which we characterize as situated, dynamic, and performative. We conclude by proposing two design …
Prototyping Tensions: How To Talk To Your Colleagues About Ai, Sonja Rattay, Mireia Yurrita, Ignacio Garnham, Jacob T. Browne
Prototyping Tensions: How To Talk To Your Colleagues About Ai, Sonja Rattay, Mireia Yurrita, Ignacio Garnham, Jacob T. Browne
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Current imaginaries of AI are pulled in opposing directions. On the utopian side, AI is being projected as the better half of humankind, evening out the fallibility of human bias and our inability to “know it all”. On the dystopian side, AI will make hu- mans either obsolete or turn humans into overly optimized cogs in a machine. The reality will most likely lie somewhere in between, in an uncomfortable grey zone of compromises, tradeoffs and negotiations of values and desired futures. In this conver- sation, we want to explore the tensions between contrasting imaginaries, which we present as four …
Designing Dialogue: Human-Ai Collaboration In Design Processes, Peter Lloyd, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Euiyoung Kim, Jonathan Cagan, Maria Yang, Kosa Goucher-Lambert
Designing Dialogue: Human-Ai Collaboration In Design Processes, Peter Lloyd, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Euiyoung Kim, Jonathan Cagan, Maria Yang, Kosa Goucher-Lambert
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The chairs' introductory editorial for the theme track 'Designing Dialogue: Human-AI Collaboration in Design Processes'.
Cognitive Challenges In Complex System Design, Mark Andrew
Cognitive Challenges In Complex System Design, Mark Andrew
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design intentions guide design efforts but complex systems can lead to designers’ intentions being eclipsed. Artificial Intelligence systems are examples of complex sociotechnical systems that exercise self-learning, innovation and creativity that can exceed their designers’ imaginations. This paper’s proposition is that sociotechnical systems design offers scope for improved reliability and is built on three features of current design practice. First, design teams seek cooperative cognition to work together but joint understanding can be impoverished by inadequately understood outcome scenarios. Second, design team collaboration is bounded by innate psychological biases which can influence design decisions. Third, some views of risk in …
Pushing Divergence And Promoting Convergence In A Speculative Design Process: Considerations On The Role Of Ai As A Co-Creation Partner, Luca Simeone, Riccardo Mantelli, Alfredo Adamo
Pushing Divergence And Promoting Convergence In A Speculative Design Process: Considerations On The Role Of Ai As A Co-Creation Partner, Luca Simeone, Riccardo Mantelli, Alfredo Adamo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Within design research, several studies have looked at Artificial Intelligence as a tool to help ideation processes. However, the potential of using Artificial Intelligence to support a specific characteristic of the design process, namely the interplay between divergent and convergent thinking, remains underexplored. Aiming to address this gap, this paper examines how 136 students interacted with Artificial Intelligence on the occasion of two courses run by the authors in a prominent European design school.
Experiencing Mundane Ai Futures, Matthew Pilling, Paul Coulton, Thomas Lodge, Andy Crabtree, Alan Chamberlain
Experiencing Mundane Ai Futures, Matthew Pilling, Paul Coulton, Thomas Lodge, Andy Crabtree, Alan Chamberlain
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Whilst popular visions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are often presented through the lens of sentient machines, our lived experience of AI is more mundane and exemplified by so-called ‘smart’ products and services. Whilst this mundane reality is often presented using design approaches that make their operation appear simple and innocuous, these smart systems, and the data they use and collect, can challenge and even disrupt ordinary expectations. Our ability to manage smart technologies effectively is key to the field of Human Data Interaction (HDI), which seeks to shape systems design and empower users by implementing core principles of legibility, agency …
Ai In Design Idea Development: A Workshop On Creativity And Human-Ai Collaboration, Fabio Antonio Figoli, Lucia Rampino, Francesca Mattioli
Ai In Design Idea Development: A Workshop On Creativity And Human-Ai Collaboration, Fabio Antonio Figoli, Lucia Rampino, Francesca Mattioli
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In a fast-paced society, AI systems can prove to be reliable teammates alongside human agents during the early stages of the design process, capable of helping to manage the increasing complexity of projects. Therefore, the introduction of AI systems into the design process is analysed according to the implications on the designer’s creativity and the kind of human-AI collaboration that is established, highlighting trust balance and the new role played by the designer. The main aspects covered by the study were tested in a workshop, in which continuous and discontinuous human-AI collaboration were compared. In the case of continuous collaboration, …
Ceci N’Est Pas Une Chaise: Emerging Practices In Designer-Ai Collaboration, Vera Van Der Burg, Almila Akdag Salah, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Peter Lloyd
Ceci N’Est Pas Une Chaise: Emerging Practices In Designer-Ai Collaboration, Vera Van Der Burg, Almila Akdag Salah, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Peter Lloyd
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Emerging practices of using ‘off the shelf’ AI as a creative partner in design processes are receiving increasing attention in design research. This paper takes the well-known concept of ‘framing’ in design, along with the Schönian concept of ‘surprise’ to explore how a human-AI dialogue could work. The approach taken is practice-based, with the human designer documenting her process of inquiry and decision making. We show how artificial creativity is expressed through misfiring object detection algorithms, and further how these ‘mistakes’ can be perceived and interpreted by the human designer. The contribution of the research is in laying the foundations …