Speculating Voice Assistant Futures

 

We would like to invite you to participate in the speculative design workshop Speculating Voice Assistant Futures at Interaction Week 23 in Zurich on 28 February 2023. The workshop is informed by the SNF funded 4-year VA-PEPR project which entered its last year in 2023. It will be organised by our team member Aysun Aytac and Mike Shorter, our colleague from the VA-PEPR project as they are both contributing to the project as design researchers.

Congratulations to Aysun, Mike and the VA-PEPR team, who qualified for the Interaction Week 23 where IxDA accepted 9 out of 64 workshop proposals.

The workshop will explore the issue of (mis)trust and confidence in voice assistants for a decentralized future by tackling these questions:
– As designers, how could we (re)define and design our interaction with voice assistants to build trust towards/to have confidence in this device?
– Concerning trust and confidence, what would a possible decentralized future of voice assistants look like?

There will be a set of physical props to hypothesize on our interactions with these powerful devices. Join the workshop to start to speculate, debate and sketch out ideas for futures we want with voice assistants. And along with this explore the ethical, political, economic, environmental and social effects these devices can have on our new futures.

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