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Un/making Data Imaginaries: The Data Epics

Published:2024-08-14 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1073-0516
Container-title:ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
language:en
Short-container-title:ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

Author:

Desjardins Audrey¹^ORCID,Benabdallah Gabrielle¹^ORCID,Kaneko Maya¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Washington, USA

Abstract

With the increase of Internet of Things devices in home environments, data will become an even more dominant part of people's everyday lives. The invisibility of data leads us to rely on our imagination to make sense of them, yet this imagination is heavily shaped by a technocentric lens that views data as neutral and transparent. In response, in this article we present the Data Epics project, where we commissioned seven fiction writers to write short stories based on smart home device data provided by seven households. We offer an analysis of the writers and households’ experiences with the project, presenting seven ways in which data imaginaries are made and unmade. We contribute a reflection around how making new data imaginaries unmakes common ones, the friction in unmaking certain imaginaries, and how we might further disseminate alternative data imaginaries.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3685269

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