Promoting Criticality through Design Futuring with Young Children

Sumita Sharma; Noura Howell; Leena Ventä-Olkkonen; Netta Iivari; Grace Eden; Heidi Hartikainen; Marianne Kinnula; Eva Durall Gazulla; Michael Nitsche; Jussi Okkonen; Supratim Pait; Elisa Rubegni; Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer; Lonneke van der Velden; Uttishta Sreerama Varanasi

doi:10.1145/3679318.3685335

Promoting Criticality through Design Futuring with Young Children

Sumita Sharma, Noura Howell, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Netta Iivari, Grace Eden, Heidi Hartikainen, Marianne Kinnula, Eva Durall Gazulla, Michael Nitsche, Jussi Okkonen, Supratim Pait, Elisa Rubegni, Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer, Lonneke van der Velden, Uttishta Sreerama Varanasi

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As children’s everyday interaction with emerging technologies increases, they need to develop criticality to navigate ethical impacts of technology and when imagining futures with technology. We explore how design futuring can facilitate children’s criticality through four different workshops with children from India, Finland, and the USA. Participants imagined futures with technologies while critically considering ethical impacts. In the findings, themes related to empowerment and ethics emerged in children’s imagined futures. We discuss promoting criticality and empowerment with children’s imagined futures, and how these futures can respond to diverse, local issues based on their lived experiences. Our work diversifies design research by highlighting local futures, and the criticality of those imagined futures, from children across the world.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Live – Uniting HCI for a Hyperlocal and Global Experience
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2024
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400709661
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685335
Publication status	Published - 13 Oct 2024
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2024 - Uppsala, Sweden Duration: 13 Oct 2024 → 16 Oct 2024

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Conference	13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2024
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Uppsala
Period	13/10/24 → 16/10/24

Keywords

Child-centered AI
Children and AI
Design Futuring
Global South

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Publication forum level 1

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Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Sharma, S., Howell, N., Ventä-Olkkonen, L., Iivari, N., Eden, G., Hartikainen, H., Kinnula, M., Gazulla, E. D., Nitsche, M., Okkonen, J., Pait, S., Rubegni, E., Sluis-Thiescheffer, W., van der Velden, L., & Varanasi, U. S. (2024). Promoting Criticality through Design Futuring with Young Children. In Live – Uniting HCI for a Hyperlocal and Global Experience: Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2024 Article 2 ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685335

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Promoting Criticality through Design Futuring with Young Children. / Sharma, Sumita; Howell, Noura; Ventä-Olkkonen, Leena et al.
Live – Uniting HCI for a Hyperlocal and Global Experience: Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2024. ACM, 2024. 2.

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