Award Abstract # 2106380
Collaborative Research: HCC: Medium: Connecting Practitioners to Design: Methods and Tools for Live Participatory Design Fiction

NSF Org: IIS
Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
Recipient: NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: June 2, 2021
Latest Amendment Date: August 29, 2023
Award Number: 2106380
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Dan Cosley
dcosley@nsf.gov
 (703)292-8832
IIS
 Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
CSE
 Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: June 30, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $532,400.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $532,400.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2021 = $532,400.00
History of Investigator:
  • William Hamilton (Principal Investigator)
    bilhamil@nmsu.edu
  • Phoebe Toups Dugas (Former Principal Investigator)
  • William Hamilton (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: New Mexico State University
1050 STEWART ST.
LAS CRUCES
NM  US  88003
(575)646-1590
Sponsor Congressional District: 02
Primary Place of Performance: New Mexico State University
NM  US  88003-8002
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): J3M5GZAT8N85
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): HCC-Human-Centered Computing
Primary Program Source: 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 7367, 7924, 9150
Program Element Code(s): 7367
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.070

ABSTRACT

This project will develop a novel approach to doing participatory design through live streaming media: Live Participatory Design Fiction (LPDF). Live media have the ability to stream video and afford interaction by participants. Previously, live media afforded audience participation through text-based chat. Now, new live media forms and democratizing systems have progressively enabled viewers to participate more directly and collectively. Participatory design incorporates stakeholders in the design process to provide subject-matter expertise and surface issues; however, prior approaches work with small, co-located groups with banal results. The work draws on playing out design fiction - imagining technology futures in service to designing systems well and equitably - as part of the design process. We can envision a future wherein live media affords participation not only for entertainment, but to shape the future of a specific design, a field, or an entire industry. Further, rendering a design fiction system into an interactive artifact holds promise to make these imagined systems more real for potential users.

The objective of this project is to establish new methodologies that broaden participation of diverse stakeholders in designing new technologies, enabling participatory design at scale while evaluating how best to use live data to iterate designs and uncover design principles for live media collaboration and active involvement. To better support building future systems for specialized, geographically distributed populations, innovative and realistic simulation methods and tools will be developed. LPDF will facilitate participatory design at distance and scale by asking participants to play out a role in a design fiction, in this case one focused on the future of information technology in emergency management. This project will iteratively develop LPDF methods and tools, building on an existing live media platform. In parallel, it will develop scenarios, grounded in practice, for design fictions to be developed within the emergency management domain to foster technology integration and influence systems being designed on other projects. The project's broader impacts will come through releasing and promoting open-source tools for doing LPDF that support designers and researchers, impacting emergency management practice through system designs, releasing reusable scenarios based on practice, and developing educational resources for doing LPDF in conference courses and college classes.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Liang, Shano and Cormier, Michelle V. and Toups Dugas, Phoebe O. and Bohrer, Rose "Analyzing Trans (Mis)Representation in Video Games to Remediate Gender Dysphoria Triggers" Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction , v.7 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1145/3611034 Citation Details
Rueben, Matthew and Martinez, Jennifer Eleanor and Cormier, Michelle V. and LaLone, Nicolas and Fraune, Marlena R. and Toups Dugas, Phoebe O. "?I See You!?: A Design Framework for Interface Cues about Agent Visual Perception from a Thematic Analysis of Videogames" CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22) , 2022 Citation Details
LaLone, Nicolas and Toups Dugas, Phoebe O. and Papangelis, Konstantinos "Practical Considerations on Applications of the Popularity of Games: The Case of Location-Based Games and Disaster" 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05637-6_13 Citation Details
LaLone, Nicolas and Toups Dugas, Phoebe O. and Semaan, Bryan "The Crisis of Designing for Disaster: How to Help Emergency Management During The Technology Crisis We Created" Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference , 2023 Citation Details
Lalone, Nicolas and Toups Dugas, Phoebe and Semaan, Bryan "The Technology Crisis in US-based Emergency Management: Toward a Well-Connected Future" Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , 2023 Citation Details
Weinstein, Eric S and Bortolin, Michelangelo and Lamine, Hamdi and Herbert, Teri Lynn and Hubloue, Ives and Pauwels, Sofie and Burke, Rita V and Cicero, Mark X and Dugas, Phoebe O and Oduwole, Elizabeth O and Ragazzoni, Luca and Della Corte, Francesco "The Challenge of Mass Casualty Incident Response Simulation Exercise Design and Creation: A Modified Delphi Study" Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , v.17 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2023.71 Citation Details
LaLone, Nicolas James and Van Natta, Jared and Zemedie, Mahlet and Cormier, Michelle V. and Fraune, Marlena and Hamilton, Bill and Toups Dugas, Phoebe O. and Alharthi, Sultan A. "Flying SD Cards, Aerial Repeaters, & Homebrew Apps: Emergent Use of Technologies for Collaboration in Search and Rescue" Proceedings of the 20th ISCRAM Conference , 2023 Citation Details
LaLone, Nicolas and Toups Dugas, Phoebe O. and Cormier, Michelle V. "A Quest?!: The Secret Life of Gameworld Punctuation" Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction , v.7 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1145/3611040 Citation Details

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