Let's Talk Futures: A Literature Review of HCI's Future-Orientation
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| author | Sanchez, Camilo Wang, Sui Savolainen, Kaisa Epp, Felix Anand Salovaara, Antti |
| author_facet | Sanchez, Camilo Wang, Sui Savolainen, Kaisa Epp, Felix Anand Salovaara, Antti |
| contents | HCI is future-oriented by nature: it explores new human--technology interactions and applies the findings to promote and shape vital visions of society. Still, the visions of futures in HCI publications seem largely implicit, techno-deterministic, narrow, and lacking in roadmaps and attention to uncertainties. A literature review centered on this problem examined futuring and its forms in the ACM Digital Library's most frequently cited HCI publications. This analysis entailed developing the four-category framework SPIN, informed by futures studies literature. The results confirm that, while technology indeed drives futuring in HCI, a growing body of HCI research is coming to challenge techno-centric visions. Emerging foci of HCI futuring demonstrate active exploration of uncertainty, a focus on human experience, and contestation of dominant narratives. The paper concludes with insight illuminating factors behind techno-centrism's continued dominance of HCI discourse, as grounding for five opportunities for the field to expand its contribution to futures and anticipation research. |
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| spellingShingle | Let's Talk Futures: A Literature Review of HCI's Future-Orientation Sanchez, Camilo Wang, Sui Savolainen, Kaisa Epp, Felix Anand Salovaara, Antti Human-Computer Interaction H.5.0 HCI is future-oriented by nature: it explores new human--technology interactions and applies the findings to promote and shape vital visions of society. Still, the visions of futures in HCI publications seem largely implicit, techno-deterministic, narrow, and lacking in roadmaps and attention to uncertainties. A literature review centered on this problem examined futuring and its forms in the ACM Digital Library's most frequently cited HCI publications. This analysis entailed developing the four-category framework SPIN, informed by futures studies literature. The results confirm that, while technology indeed drives futuring in HCI, a growing body of HCI research is coming to challenge techno-centric visions. Emerging foci of HCI futuring demonstrate active exploration of uncertainty, a focus on human experience, and contestation of dominant narratives. The paper concludes with insight illuminating factors behind techno-centrism's continued dominance of HCI discourse, as grounding for five opportunities for the field to expand its contribution to futures and anticipation research. |
| title | Let's Talk Futures: A Literature Review of HCI's Future-Orientation |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction H.5.0 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09362 |