Title
Fictional, Interactive Narrative as a Foundation to Talk about Racism
Abstract
As a means of exploring the design space for supporting individuals who have had personal experiences with racism, we developed a Participatory Design (PD) method, Foundational Fiction, that addresses some unique concerns with using traditional PD to explore deeply sensitive topics. Challenging the assumption that PD must begin with a solicitation of participants' real lived experiences, we instead created a fictional interactive narrative for participants to work from. In the preliminary analysis, we observe that the use of a shared fiction relieved participants of the requirement to disclose very personal experiences, but nonetheless established a group understanding of what makes racist experiences difficult and supported a generative conversation about how technology might ease these situations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3393914.3395885
DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020 Eindhoven Netherlands July, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7987-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hillary Carey100.68
Alexandra To2985.94
Jessica Hammer36825.95
Geoff F. Kaufman42113.00