More than a show: Using personalized immersive theater to educate and engage the public in technology ethics

Michaelwarren Skirpan; Jacqueline Cameron; Tom Yeh

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174038

More than a show: Using personalized immersive theater to educate and engage the public in technology ethics

Michaelwarren Skirpan
, Jacqueline Cameron
, Tom Yeh

Department of Psychology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

17 Scopus citations

Abstract

Devising strategies to engage the public in discussions around the design and development of technology is critical to building a future that works for everyone. This paper presents a novel case study, an immersive theater experience, "Quantified Self," that combines aspects of design fiction and user enactments to construct a public engagement opportunity about technology ethics. Our audience supplied their social data (Facebook, Twitter...) and received a personalized experience where they interacted with a narrative and technology exhibits. We used a design model targeting goals of engagement, education, and discussion. Here we overview the design and production of Quantified Self and report on the results (240 participants over 6 performances) and findings from audience surveys (n=179/240) and cast/crew interviews (n=15/22). We found our approach attracted a wide audience interested in different elements of the show. Affordances and challenges of our model are discussed in detail.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Engage with CHI
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174038
State	Published - 20 Apr 2018
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2018-April

Conference

Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Keywords

Design fiction
Design methods
Enactments
Ethics
Immersive theater
Privacy
Public engagement
Research through design
Speculative design

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Skirpan, M., Cameron, J., & Yeh, T. (2018). More than a show: Using personalized immersive theater to educate and engage the public in technology ethics. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2018-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174038

Skirpan, Michaelwarren ; Cameron, Jacqueline ; Yeh, Tom. / More than a show : Using personalized immersive theater to educate and engage the public in technology ethics. CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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More than a show: Using personalized immersive theater to educate and engage the public in technology ethics. / Skirpan, Michaelwarren; Cameron, Jacqueline; Yeh, Tom.
CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2018-April).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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