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Does Siri have a soul? Exploring voice assistants through Shinto design fictions
- Abstract:
- It can be difficult to critically reflect on technology that has become part of everyday rituals and routines. To combat this, speculative and fictional approaches have previously been used by HCI to decontextualise the familiar and imagine alternatives. In this work we turn to Japanese Shinto narratives as a way to defamiliarise voice assistants, inspired by the similarities between how assistants appear to `inhabit’ objects similarly to kami. Describing an alternate future where assistant presences live inside objects, this approach foregrounds some of the phenomenological quirks that can otherwise easily become lost. Divorced from the reality of daily life, this approach allows us to reevaluate some of the common interactions and design patterns that are common in the virtual assistants of the present.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, 1.1MB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1145/3334480.3381809
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- Publisher:
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Host title:
- Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Article number:
- ALT04
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-01-29
- Event title:
- 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Event location:
- Honolulu, USA
- Event website:
- https://chi2020.acm.org/
- Event start date:
- 2020-04-25
- Event end date:
- 2020-04-30
- DOI:
- ISBN:
- 9781450368193
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1087089
- Local pid:
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pubs:1087089
- Deposit date:
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2020-02-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Seymour, W and Van Kleek, M.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The Authors. Publication rights licensed to ACM.
- Notes:
- This conference paper was presented at CHI'20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 25-30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. This is the accepted manuscript version of the paper. The final version is available online from the Association for Computing Machinery at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381809
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