Co-Living with Intelligent Artifacts: An Experiential Participatory Speculative Design Method
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: With the advancement of artificial intelligence and robotics, intelligent artifacts are increasingly integrated into human life. Traditional user-centered design approaches focus on optimizing interaction experiences but often overlook potential ethical issues. This study employsaparticipatoryspeculativedesignapproach, engagingthepublicinco-constructing future scenarios to foreground ethical reflection at the early stages of the design process. Building on this approach, we propose an extended model of the Experiential Future Ladder and implement it through a workshop involving eight Chinese youth participants. Thematic analysis identifies three categories of ethical issues in future human–intelligent artifact interactions: dilemmas between emotion and control, socio-cultural projections, and the redefinition of human–machine relationships. Findings indicate that this experience-based participatory speculative design method helps reveal how the public perceives, negotiates, and articulates ethical stances in specific contexts, highlighting the potential of speculative design to activate societal ethical imagination.
Authors: Boyu Zhang, JiaXin Xiao, Li Zhang
Institutions: Guangdong University of Technology, Tongji University
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7138386103