Children in 2077: designing children's technologies in the age of transhumanism

Oguz Buruk; Gökçe Elif Baykal; Selçuk Acar; Mehmet Aydın  Baytas; Joe Best; Hüseyin Ugur Genç; Samuli Laato; Konstantinos Papangelis; Richard Ramchurn; Mattia Thibault; Mert Yildiz; Oguzhan  Ozcan; Tilbe Göksun; Güler Akduman; Ceylan Besevli; Aykut Coskun; A. Baki Kocaballi; Cássia Mota; Marigo Raftopoulos; Juan Sádaba; Annika Wolff

doi:10.1145/3334480.3381821

Children in 2077: designing children's technologies in the age of transhumanism

Oguz Buruk, Gökçe Elif Baykal, Selçuk Acar, Mehmet Aydın Baytas, Joe Best, Hüseyin Ugur Genç, Samuli Laato, Konstantinos Papangelis, Richard Ramchurn, Mattia Thibault, Mert Yildiz, Oguzhan Ozcan, Tilbe Göksun, Güler Akduman, Ceylan Besevli, Aykut Coskun, A. Baki Kocaballi, Cássia Mota, Marigo Raftopoulos, Juan SádabaAnnika Wolff

Australian Institute of Health Innovation

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Abstract

What for and how will we design children's technologies in the transhumanism age, and what stance will we take as designers? This paper aims to answer this question with 13 fictional abstracts from sixteen authors of different countries, institutions and disciplines. Transhumanist thinking envisions enhancing human body and mind by blending human biology with technological augmentations. Fundamentally, it seeks to improve the human species, yet the impacts of such movement are unknown and the implications on children's lives and technologies were not explored deeply. In an age, where technologies such as under-skin chips or brain-machine interfaces can clearly be defined as transhumanist, our aim is to reveal probable pitfalls and benefits of those technologies on children's lives by using the power of design fiction. Thus, main contribution of this paper is to create diverse presentation of provocative research ideas that will foster the discussion on the transhumanist technologies impacting the lives of children in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '20
Subtitle of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-13
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450368193
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381821
Publication status	Published - Apr 2020
Event	2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020

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Conference	2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20

Keywords

children
interaction design
transhumanism
design fiction
speculation
brain-machine interface
posthumanism
cyborg
augmented human
wearables

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Buruk, O., Baykal, G. E., Acar, S., Baytas, M. A., Best, J., Genç, H. U., Laato, S., Papangelis, K., Ramchurn, R., Thibault, M., Yildiz, M., Ozcan, O., Göksun, T., Akduman, G., Besevli, C., Coskun, A., Kocaballi, A. B., Mota, C., Raftopoulos, M., ... Wolff, A. (2020). Children in 2077: designing children's technologies in the age of transhumanism. In CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). Article ALT16 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381821

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Children in 2077: designing children's technologies in the age of transhumanism. / Buruk, Oguz; Baykal, Gökçe Elif; Acar, Selçuk et al.
CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 1-13 ALT16.

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