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Decentering the Designer Through Live-Action Roleplay

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: More-than-human approaches to HCI design research have gained traction in recent years, facilitating a need to employ new methods that decenter the human perspective. We propose live-action roleplay (larp), as a method and practice within HCI that can support perspective taking and empathy-building with non-humans actors. In this paper, we discuss a local community workshop where we facilitated numerous body-based and larp activities surrounding the theme of sustainability, and reflect on the strengths larp offers in service of decentering the human perspective.

DOI: 10.1145/3686169.3686173

Authors: Mikaela O'Bryan, Alberto Alvarez, Jose Font, Raquel Breejon Robinson

Institutions: Malmö University, IT University of Copenhagen

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W4403530908

FWCI: 0.336

Cites: 15

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10